Web Design
Why Redesigns are Necessary
I’m currently in the early stages of redesigning a local newspaper’s website. I’ve been compiling statistical information such as the most trafficked pages and what time of day is the busiest and also where users are clicking on each page. Crazyegg.com allows me to log click activity and compile that information into something useful.
What I’ve [...]
Great Mobile Testing Website
So I’m reading through Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design, which I love by the way, and came across a few mentions of Ready.mobi. So I thought I would check it out.
Book Review: Mobile Web Design
You’ve probably seen many reviews on Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design around recently. I thought I’d add my own.
Flash on Top of Flash
At work we just implemented a ‘Corner Peel’ Flash Advertisement. You can view an example over at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. I had a problem when putting this ‘Corner Peel’ flash ad onto the home page, you see we run a handful of advertisements of various sizes throughout our website. One of those being a [...]
Digg for Designers
Recently I’ve been coming across a lot of great articles that have been submitted to Design Float. Design Float is a digg-style social news site, but with a niche. I’ll let them tell you about it:
The ultimate goal of Design Float is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of design-related content available on the web [...]
Great Wordpress Resource
I ran across an extremely large Wordpress resource today. Over at Mashable.com they’ve compiled a list of 300+ Tools for Running Your Wordpress Blog. This is a great resource of plugins and templates to extend Wordpress way beyond its initial intention.
Great Website for Freelancers
I stumbled across this site for freelance designers and have been enjoying it ever since. I really love the layout as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Design by Committee
Designing a website for a corporation can be troublesome. The term “design by committee” comes into play quite frequently. Don’t get me wrong, getting feedback on a design is very helpful, and I would argue, a necessity, but when there is a handful of directors, managers and editors telling you how it should look, that’s [...]
