Reading blog comments can be painful. For every insightful and well thought out post there are at least 10 spammers, trolls and illiterate shrieking banshees just looking to start a fight. This is hard enough when you are a visitor trying to shift through all the garbage to find the occasional diamond to respond to. [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The latest iteration of An Event Apart is nearly upon us, to be held in Atlanta next month with subsequent sessions upcoming in Seattle, Boston, Austin and Washington, DC later in the year. Widely recognized as the most important conference of the year for web site designers and developers, An Event Apart offers a series [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Congratulations! You have a website! Now that you have one, you also have the responsibility of taking care of one. Website optimization is not always easy, but it can be with basic knowledge of how they work. One tool you can use to optimize your website is an .htaccess file. Web servers that use Apache [...]
Running multiple web blogs of any variety takes time and attention and site owners are always on the lookout for tools to make that job easier. While WordPress has long been the content management system of choice for multi-bloggers in the form of its WordPress MU (multi-site) offering, the latest incarnation of the world’s favorite [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2011
When you are creating a new site, one of your first steps is to create an interface that is both presentable and useable. But testing for usability takes time and – frankly – money. Which isn’t easy to come by when you are first starting up a website, especially if your company deals largely in [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
You want to stand out right? You want them to notice you and hire you over the last three people that just walked in the door. As a designer working for a small firm myself, I’ve interviewed lots of people. Here are a few ways people have stood out to me over the years. They [...]
Photography has undergone many changes in its relatively short history. For the first 150 years it was a purely analog art form in which latent images were exposed on to film. The technology advanced but the general principle remained the same. During the 1990’s the digital camera started to take shape. Although this has made [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Content Management is a relatively new term in the web world. It’s a concept that has taken on particular importance as the marketing paradigm continues to transition to the digital world. Before, your website was a static entity, a virtual sign post pointing to your brick and mortar business. Today, your website should be considered [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
I’m a member of a very large networking group in the UK, and recently I received a PM from a frazzled member saying she was, I quote, “so fed up” looking for domain names, to the point where she just wanted to “Register something or anything just to get started”. Stop right there. The thing [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Image Credit: Andrew* How many times have you created a document on your laptop but aren’t in a WiFi-accessible area when you really need to send the file—or picture—to someone? If you have a cell phone that is Bluetooth(r)-enabled and you have room on your data plan with your cell phone provider, fear not. You [...]
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