Consult With Your SEO Expert Before Site Re-Design

It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, “We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?”.
The Account Manager asks for a URL and upon receiving, clicks to find a “pretty” home page with 90% […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on May 5th, 2008

Using CSS Variables

It is very common to find repeated property values in a CSS stylesheet. CSS Variables allow authors to define variables that are reusable as property values anywhere in a stylesheet and queryable/modifiable through an extension of the CSS Object Model.
CSS Variables can define stylesheet-wide values identified by a token and usable in all CSS declarations. […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on April 21st, 2008

Can You Get By With An Old Site Design?

I have a web site that I placed on the Internet in the year 2000. It consists of HTML 4 and Frames. At this time it opens in different browsers with no problem. With the advances of CSS and newer browsers running CSS more proficiently do you think the older web sites with frames will […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on April 7th, 2008

BBC Redesigns It’s Website

The BBC continues to redesign and develop it’s website, with the BBC News section of the site now being rolled out to a new design.
Curiously, it makes BBC News look less like a world beating news source, as much as a common news blog.

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on March 31st, 2008

Easy Ways to Ruin Your Website

A lot of people give suggestions on how to improve your website or blog. Whether it is via SEO or design suggestions. Not many tell you what is going to destroy your website. I may be a little extreme but there are several pet peeves (as do many in the web design world) have that […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on March 17th, 2008

Adobe School Innovation Awards

The theme of 2008’s Adobe School Innovation Awards is My Community — My Planet — My 21st Century. High school students in grades 9-12 (ages 14-19) can submit entries in three categories:

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on March 3rd, 2008

The Importance of Web Standards

There is a lot of talk amongst designers about why web standards are important, sometimes it is a bragging point to say that you know a lot about CSS and HTML and can make a good site within standards. Some of it is just a line to make whatever you are doing sound better. I […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on February 4th, 2008

Finding Design Work

There are a lot of job boards out there that can help freelance web designers find work, a lot of them aren’t very good and you can find some clients that expect to pay pennies for hours worth of potential work. The problem you will mostly find is that a lot of people that post […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on January 18th, 2008

A Technique for CSS Image Replacement

There are a lot of reasons that you would want to replace simple text with an image. One of the biggest reasons is the benefit of getting the text that is within the image for search engines.
This method is used mostly for site headings. Say you were making a site about “Freelance Oklahoma Web Design” […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on January 7th, 2008

Choosing the Right Color Scheme

We all have our different practices that we use for starting a design of any kind. Sometimes we start with paper and pen or sometimes we may even jump right into Photoshop or Illustrator and begin tossing around ideas. One step we can’t skip though is choosing the right color scheme for our design. It […]

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on December 21st, 2007