20 Examples of Great Typography in Web Design
I’ve been a huge fan of well done typography in web design lately. Of course it’s difficult to have great typography on the web, due to the web’s limited available fonts. You either have to take a chance that the user won’t have the font, or you’ll have to use some kind of replacement –...
Read more…Web Development Is Not Copy & Paste
I’ve noticed a dangerous trend developing in the past several weeks – the amount of clients claiming that web development is copy and paste. While most of them don’t say all of web development is copy and paste kind of work, most of my conversations (with several people, clients and close friends) have gone something...
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…Stop Propping Up IE: Forgetting CSS3 & Hacks and Gracefully Degrading Your Sites
Internet Explorer, even the new IE8, is severly limited in so many ways when it comes to CSS and HTML. The gap between the IEs and the FF/Safari/Chrome browsers gets even wider when CSS3 comes into play. So when do we stop catering and wasting time trying to make every website look exactly the same...
Read more…Groundmap: the Social GeoTagging Platform. The Next Big Thing?
It’s not often (or ever) that I get the “inside” into anything new or cool. So I was delighted when I got to sit down with Eric Bieller, the co-founder of GroundMap, for a demo of their new social media platform and an interview. While I tend to be very wary of new social media sites....
Read more…Web 2.0 Design is Dead…Just in Time for Templatey Design
Have you ever gone to a discount store that sold brand name knockoffs? The knockoffs, while inexpensive, were always poor in quality and design and never looked like the originals. The same goes for web design trends. When trends are started, they are started with original and new techniques that blow your mind. However, by...
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