web-design Posts

Jun 26, 2007

I was working on a new website today, and as is often the case, I did not have the copy for any of the pages yet. I needed to fill a few pages with some text so I could simply get the pages to the point that they were ready ...

Jun 21, 2007

I first heard the term "Mystery Meat Navigation" several years ago, and I have to admit, I have been guilty of creating the odd site with mystery meat navigation. Things seemed to be getting better, but recently I have been coming a cross a lot of Web 2.0 websites that ...

Jun 15, 2007

The following post is a guest post by Vivien who runs Inspiration Bit. Vivien is a web developer and freelance web and graphic designer from Vancouver. Her post came at a good time as I have been battling a cold/flu for the last few days. Thanks for the great post ...

Jun 7, 2007

I have been pretty busy this week doing a lot of Photoshop work. I have to admit I am not the fastest Photoshop guru so I look for help out on the web quite often. I came across a couple of sites recently that have been helpful for both Photoshop ...

May 30, 2007

I had a minute this morning and hit the Stumble button and was taken to this site that has over 10,000 free shapes for your Photoshop. As you all probably know by now I love free stuff. I tend to fill my hard drive up with it. This download is ...

May 20, 2007

One of the little things that often is overlooked by many webmasters is to create a favorite icon or favicon for their website. A favicon is that small 16x16 pixel image that people see on the address bar of their web browser when they visit your website, and it is ...

May 4, 2007

Just StumbledUpon a couple of great Web 2.0 gradients that you can use in Photoshop to create buttons, logos, tabs, toolbars, backgrounds and all kinds of cool looking things for your websites. Photoshop: Web 2.0 Gradients Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients I am sure these will come in handy for ...

Apr 17, 2007

I have talked about how it is important to test your websites in other browsers to make sure the site looks the way you want it to. While taking screenshots is one way of seeing if your website looks right, it does not give you the chance to make sure ...

Apr 3, 2007

Looking for some new fonts for a project? Take a look at this list of "The Ultimate List of Fonts on the Internet" post over at Look at This. There are some excellent resources in the list. You are sure to find some new and interesting fonts from some of ...

Mar 22, 2007

A great list of things you should not do when creating a website. 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website. I will only add two that I did not see, and I have mentioned them before. No stupid annoying animations and make ...