web-design Posts

Apr 14, 2015

WordPress is a great content management system but there are still times when you either just want to add a page to your website that is not a part of WordPress or when perhaps you just want to give make sure all the pages on your website whether they ...

Oct 25, 2014

I am always on the lookout for new and interesting photos for use in websites, blog posts and to pass on to clients. There are several places you can get free photos to use, in fact here is a list of 30 of them, but finding ...

Aug 29, 2011

Building a website used to be extremely difficult. You had to know HTML, cascading style sheets, possibly javascript and graphic design. Things have changed, now it is possible to build a website in under 60 minutes. Don't believe me? Here are the steps you need to create your own website ...

Jan 18, 2010

<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=lgrphotogalle-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=0470174625" style="width:120px;height:240px;float: right;margin-left: 10px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe> I have been doing more research on best practices for landing pages recently and came across this great video on YouTube. I have watched and listened to this video several times now and thought I would share it. It has given me ...

Apr 9, 2009

import Caption from '../../components/Caption.astro'; I have talked about my problems picking colours in the past. Fortunately I have found several tools that can help me, and today I found another one. Color Scheme Designer is a Javascript, browser based application that you can use to create colour schemes based on ...

Nov 24, 2008

One of the things I have had on my to do list was to replace the WordPress search with the Google Custom search. The WordPress search gives decent search results, but it is hard to compete with the accuracy of Google website search. I was reminded about that today when ...

Oct 2, 2008

Optimizing images for the Internet can be a pain staking task to make the image as small as possible while still making it look as good as it can. Back in the day when everyone was on dialup web developers used to spend lots of time to make sure those ...

Nov 16, 2007

It has been a very crazy week trying to get things done, so I have not had a chance to post as often as I wanted to this week. One of the many challanges of running a business and being a work from home Dad. I wanted to quickly point ...

Sep 9, 2007

If you have been visiting for a little while, or have browsed through some of the older posts (Color Combinations, one of the blogs I like to read occasionally. First off I have to say, what a great site! I don't say that very often, ask my wife. Usually when I ...

Jul 22, 2007

I have been back for just over a week now from a great week off up at Waskesui, in Prince Albert National Park. In the week I have been back I have been busy doing a redesign of a website for a client. The redesign is going well but there have ...