http://www.designnewz.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 May 2008 13:44:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/05/05/consult-with-your-seo-expert-before-site-re-design/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/04/21/using-css-variables/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/04/07/can-you-get-by-with-an-old-site-design/ 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. http://www.designnewz.com/2008/03/31/bbc-redesigns-its-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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/03/17/easy-ways-to-ruin-your-website/ 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: http://www.designnewz.com/2008/03/03/adobe-school-innovation-awards/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/02/04/the-importance-of-web-standards/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/01/18/finding-design-work/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2008/01/07/a-technique-for-css-image-replacement/ 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 ... http://www.designnewz.com/2007/12/21/choosing-the-right-color-scheme/