There are three common web design mistakes I see over and over and over. And they are made on sites big and small, by top designers and by amateurs.
The most common web design mistakes stem from the web designer’s inability to see the web as a medium that is much more in the control of [...]

Promoting your business through video sites is a good thing. It’s the ultimate in Web 2.0, and if you’re good at it, use tags properly, and keep filesize/time limits firmly in mind, it can really help your website to take off. And we all know that YouTube videos can sometimes go viral, and really give [...]

I’ve been working on a Drupal Theme Design for a new site we’ll be launching probably within the next couple weeks, and with the new templating for Drupal version 6.+ there are many different places the css comes from, especially if you’re dealing with subthemes and multiple folders.
I had remembered a friend who templates Joomla [...]

I’m a customer of Aldi locally, since it’s great to go in a store and not have to walk a mile to find the three things you need when you’re in a hurry, unlike the big box supermarkets that I hate with a passion for that reason. Aldi in Easton PA is a friendly place [...]

The IE 8 Beta is out.
There is already buzz about it, since IE8 passes Acid 2, supposedly. Of course, that’s a step behind already, since Acid 3 was just released. And according to the Slashdotters, IE8 only scores 17 on Acid 3, compared to the most recent stable version of Firefox, which scores 50 on [...]

In the wake of all the hub-bub surrounding the passing of the Torch in the upper corporate echelons of Ebay, and the unwelcome Ebay Fee changes that came with it that resulted in an Ebay Seller Boycott, what hasn’t emerged is a clear alternative to Ebay. Well, I have one to suggest.
Most of the [...]

Sometimes it’s the small details in a web design that make it distinctive, whether it be icons or bullets or some other small element used as a bar between articles or posts on a blog, or combined into a border between elements. And there is no better way to create these elements than using one [...]

We who design websites and test in multiple browsers need to note that an Auto Update is scheduled for February 12th to upgrade all IE users to IE7.
The reason this is important to WebDevs is that many corporate networks will not be installing this upgrade, so we will still have to keep testing in IE6. [...]

More than once I’ve had a client send me a scan of a logo, or hand me a piece of stationery or whatever, and say they want that bit there at the top of their website, and they also want other things to use the same font. My next question is invariably “What’s the name [...]

In learning more about the interface between the frontend (xhtml/css) of the websites I design and the backend (usually php), I’ve had to do quite a bit of poking around on the web and have accumulated some pretty good bookmarks on PHP, many of which are tutorial sites for using php, and some of which [...]

A List Apart has a great article on what’s coming in HTML 5, which throws out a lot of the current tag syntax and gives us more semantic structural markup via the DOM. It will also allow a more streamlined markup with a lot of cruft cut out and simplified. There will be a lot [...]

I’m a subscriber to Harald Heim’s The Plugin Site Newsletter, which always has links to new graphics tools, and since I’m an addict it feeds my addiction quite nicely.
In his latest newsletter, in the free plugins section, he mentioned a couple new plugins from Xero Graphics, which I checked out, but what really caught my [...]

Sometimes it’s easier to import information into a web application than it is to enter it by hand. If you have access to a free database you can sometimes manipulate the information into a form that can be easily imported into the application of your choice, saving you hours, and sometimes days, of data entry.
Some [...]

I just got done reading the SiteProNews Newsletter, which this month features an article on Fonts and market branding. I won’t deny that there’s great information here, and in general the content is high quality. But it’s just as obvious to me that Erin Ferree, the author, is first and foremost, a print weenie. What [...]

Right now I’m working on coding a site into WordPress that was designed by a graphics designer who is, from what I can see, a print designer. It was done for another gal who was originally going to do the coding slice and dice for Macromedia Contribute, using a table layout, but for various reasons [...]