The 10 Secret Myths Of Website Development
Unfortunately for web developers, there are many myths about development that clients, and even some junior developers, believe about websites. Many believe we have magic buttons or that it’s only a matter of copy and paste to do what we do and make their site successful. These beliefs can harm both your business and client...
Read more…The Smashing Book Review…And Win A Copy!
Pretty much everyone in our field has heard of The Smashing Book from Smashing Magazine. Published in 2009 with 313 pages,The Smashing Book offers a collection of modern design, usability, coding and best practices in the web world. The book had plenty of information to offer that I didn’t know about and, although I didn’t agree with...
Read more…Contribute: Does Freelancing Interrupt Your Sleep Schedule?
It’s 12:39 am so you can probably guess my problem. I’ve personally been having problems sleeping at night since I started freelancing full-time. My significant other likes to go to bed around 10 or 10:30 since he has to wake up early for work am of course I don’t want us to go to bed...
Read more…15 Beautiful CSS-Based Website Heroes
A hero on a website is the large, often graphic-based, top portion of a homepage underneath the header. For example, the sliding featured portion of my own homepage, is my site’s hero. This section of a website is called a hero, mainly because it’s one of the first things a new visitor sees upon coming...
Read more…The Myth of the Finished Website and How It Evolves
The web is constantly evolving every day. Web technologies change, as well as design trends, usability findings and content preferences. What does this mean? It means that there’s no such thing as a finished website. If a finished website is a myth, what are we supposed to be doing? What are our responsibilities to our...
Read more…New site launch!
Just launched my new design today, completely implemented into WordPress. What do you think? I know there’s still some bugs, specifically: My Twitter JS on the hompage isn’t working for some reason I have weird validation errors on the homepage Looks like crap in IE6 While I have to move onto some client work todya,...
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