web-design Posts

Mar 16, 2007

I have seen this on the web before, but I came across it again this evening and it made me laugh. It is so true. I am just wrapping up a redesign project and everything was going so well, until some issues popped up with Internet Explorer. I don't think ...

Mar 12, 2007

I have been cleaning up an older website for a client the last few days, and, to be frank, it has gotten me in a bit of a cranky mood. I can't help but be reminded of the reasons why your aunts cousins nephew should not design and program your ...

Mar 9, 2007

There has been a flurry of online applications being created lately. One of the areas that has been a little slower taking off is the ability to edit your photos online. My favorite online photo editing site is Snipshot.com. You can easily upload a photo via the ...

Mar 9, 2007

Smashing Magazine recently had a post on free website design templates. There are some good web design template websites on the list, but the list is rather long and to be quite honest there are some websites not worth your time to visit. To make the list a little more manageable ...

Mar 7, 2007

If you are not really interested in all of the technical details behind your website, and you just want to work on creating interesting and compelling content, then a content management system might be just what you need. The latest content management systems make it easy for ...

Mar 1, 2007

If an image is worth a thousand words then finding the right images for a website is crucial. Not everyone has the resources to buy stock photographs for every website, thankfully there are stock photo resources on the internet that make it easy to find the right image. ...

Feb 26, 2007

It happened to me again. I updated a site and did not go and check what it looked like in an older version of Internet Explorer on Windows 98. It does not matter how long you have been doing web updates, and how simple the updates are, somethings just do ...

Feb 18, 2007

It never fails, as soon as you write something you end up finding another tool that you should have included. This color tool is from the undisputed master of graphics, Adobe. Kuler is from Adobe labs and allows people view color combinations that others have created online. You can narrow ...

Feb 17, 2007

I have to admit that I always struggle with getting good color combinations for websites. I often will change colors several times before I decide on what color combination I want to stick with. Things have gotten easier the last few years though because of some very cool web tools ...

Feb 14, 2007

I was Stumbling last night and came across this great set of glass styled images at bittbox.com. The images come in many different colours and formats including EPS, Illustrator, JPEG, PNG and SVG. My favourites were the RSS Icons and the Badges. Take a look at the freebie category for ...