Have you ever eaten some multi-colored cereal, and looked at the milk afterward to see it’s an awful brown-grey-purple color? Well, that’s just the thing about color theory. If you’re shoving tons of different colors together without much thought, it’s going to end up as one big muddled mess of color and confusion. It might not end up a brown-grey-purple bowl of liquid, but a mess nonetheless.
No doubt your website is going great guns in the search engines, but did you know you’re missing out on a valuable source of traffic?
It’s time to go social! The new way for online users to find websites like yours is through content linked to or posted on social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook. The key for your website is to make this linking or posting as easy as possible.
When designing a website there are a few things to keep in mind throughout the design and implementation of the website. These are:
1. Appearance
2. Ease of Navigation
3. Information
The WordPress blogging software is quite rightly immensely popular. The Open-Source community that supports it has developed a whole raft of supporting code and applications that make it a pleasure to use.
This blog and the other SMM blogs now have a slightly different look. This is because we are now using a feature of WordPress, Multiple Loops. The beauty of WordPress is that the concepts are all very easy to understand. This particular feature will hopefully give much more reader satisfaction.
There are two elements to the change. The first is that you will now only see one blog post when you visit. Although Google tries to be helpful, it can occasionally provide more from a blog that you wish to see. Now you will see precisely the blog post that is relevant to your keyword query.
As a freelance web designer
there are a number of different methods for creating income than just making websites. Some of those are more passive than others and there are quite a few that won’t generate income immediately but could easily lead to more business. Understanding these methods and their benefits for your business can help in slow periods of web design work or even completely change your business model depending on the profitability.
A lot of the ways that you can diversify your web design or web development business completely depend on your skill set and personality. Being outgoing and not limiting yourself to a very narrow skill set are the best ways to take a step forward in ensuring that your business will not only succeed but grow.
When you decide to start up a website, or even redesign an old one, there are some basics of design you’ll want to keep in mind. Everything from the appearance, to the navigation, down to the coding. When you look at it as a big picture, it might seem like a little much to handle at first, but keeping a few things in mind will help you skate through your new web design with ease.
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If you’ve been checking out DesignNewz for awhile, you might have noticed me guest author the newsletter from time to time. If you’re a seasoned designer or are just starting out, one of the best things to help clear creative blocks are inspirational galleries. I update one myself at originmaker.com in our circle of websites.
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I’ve been tweaking the performance of BlogEngine.NEXT today using my favorite tool: YSlow for FireBug. One of the things YSlow checks for is the expires HTTP header for static content such as images, script files and style sheets. Since BlogEngine.NET has always used custom HTTP handlers for serving scripts and stylesheets, only the static images have been a problem.
I always test my sites in the latest crop of browsers - FF, IE, Safari (Mac and Win), Opera. I’m still supporting IE6, unfortunately, but once IE8 comes out I may put a stop to that. Mostly I don’t find it too horrible; a few conditional comments usually take care of whatever issues pop up.
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The glossy button. The shiny floor. We’ve all done it. The iPhone is a groovy new gadget but it’s perpetuating the overuse of Apple-style design on the web. Thanks to the proliferation of this design trend, the entire internet looks like an Apple store. It looks like the virtual janitor is on his 8th coat of floor wax anywhere you go. …read full article…
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