Web Design
« Previous EntriesWhat is the Responsibility of a Web Designer in Regards to SEO?
Friday, February 29th, 2008Search Engine Optimization is an ongoing process that cannot truly be accomplished by designing a website in a particular way, although a designer can cripple a site’s chances with a poor foundation. Building a search engine-friendly website should be the task of the designer, but there can be some gray areas.
First [...]
Lighting Without Lights: Creating HDR Images in Photoshop
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I checked into a charming little hotel while on assignment in San Diego recently. When I opened the door, the soft, diffused light streaming into the room through the windows was beautiful. There were flowers on the table in the alcove. I had to have a photograph of it. There was one tiny problem. No [...]
Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A team of five former Apple software engineers, led by former Apple Exec Jean-Marie Hullot, have been working on a new stealth desktop/web photography focused startup called Fotonauts since late 2006. Sometime in the next couple of months, they’ll launch publicly. The company is based in Paris, France.
Hullot, who worked with Steve Jobs at Apple [...]
How Frequently Should You Change Your Blog’s Theme?
Friday, February 15th, 2008Some of the biggest decisions bloggers face involve their blog theme. Should you change your theme? Should you pay for a premium theme or a custom theme? What should you look for in a new theme ?
With so many free themes readily available (especially for WordPress users) you could literally change [...]
8 Methods Of Adding More Content To Your Site
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Content is king and your content site is your kingdom. When the adage “content is king” was first coined, the web was, in many respects, a simpler place for Webmasters. Creating a website with ten to twenty pages of keyword rich content would generate excellent search engine results and a mass of traffíc as a [...]
Photoshop’s Blend If: An Overview
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Blend If is very much an overlooked and even mysterious feature to almost any Photoshop user. If you ever tried looking this feature up in manuals and books, you may not have been able to find it. In fact even searching Photoshop Help will not yield a title with Blend If in it (though the [...]
Looking for some very high quality, smooth, sexy XML menus for your flash projects?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Looking for some very high quality, smooth, sexy XML menus for your flash projects?
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SEO and User Experience Fusion
Sunday, October 14th, 2007So, you want to build a Web site. Where do you start? Do you sit down with your programmers and demand a Web 2.0 site full of techie buzzwords? Or do you turn to your design team for a “visually appealing” Web site that “meets the needs of the business?”
If you’re smart, [...]
Web Design - Simple Mistakes and Golden Rules
Friday, October 12th, 2007Good web design is something that can be achieved relatively easily by sticking to a small set of guiding principles and avoiding some very common mistakes.
Truly excellent web design skills are born out of years of experience, dedication and plenty of hard-learned mistakes. Fortunately, being truly excellent at web design is not a pre-requisite for [...]
Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress
Friday, October 12th, 2007In the past few years WordPress (www.WordPress.org) has become the standard blog publishing platform because of its ease of use, rich feature set, available plugins, and standards compliance. Of course, the fact that it’s free and open source hasn’t hurt either.
While developers have flocked to using WordPress as their blogging platform of choice, it’s often [...]