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,...
Read more…Brand Loyalty Isn't Dead, It's Upped It's Game
Brand loyalty was once king in the consumer world. Companies spent endless amounts of money to appeal to the average consumer, and it worked, as every consumer had at least one brand they would pay far more money for over a similar competitor. Why would consumers part with more money than they had to, in...
Read more…101 Things To Do In 2010 If You're A Freelance Developer
A great freelancer must always change their game. If we’re stuck doing the same thing over and over again, not only will we be bored with what we’re doing, we’ll eventually fall behind the curve of development and lose business. A New Year is a great excuse to stop doing bad habits and to start...
Read more…10 Websites That Do Everything Wrong But Look So Right!
There are many web design taboos and usability guidelines for websites today. Most of the time when we stumble across these websites, we are immediately turned off and leave. They normally appear to be made in the ’70′s (if the 70′s had the internet that is). Oddly enough, I’ve seen several websites brave enough to break the rules...
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