- 2021.01“... ...”
- Optimizing WordPress for Google PageSpeed Insights - Advanced Techniques
Speed is important. Users expect fast loading websites, and Google considers page perform ...
01/26/2021
- What is website strategy and why do I need it?
According to Forrester Research, well-designed websites perform 400% better compared to t ...
01/05/2021
- 2020.12“... ...”
- Reducing Bounce Rates Through Design
Your website won't be successful if users leave the site shortly after they arrive. Bounc ...
12/18/2020
- 2020.05“... ...”
- How to hire a web design company
Hiring a web design company can feel daunting. For example, searching "Web Design Compan ...
05/19/2020
- 2020.03“... ...”
- Call to Action Marketing Strategy
In the past I've written about the importance of having a separate call to action for eac ...
03/26/2020
- 2020.01“... ...”
- 10 Ways to Get More From Your Website in 2020
It's a new year, a time of reflection and goal setting. Whether you subscribe to new year ...
01/07/2020
- 2019.12“... ...”
- Why personas are antiquated (and what you should use instead)
Personas are antiquated... this coming from someone who has relied on and written about t ...
12/17/2019
- History of Design in Michigan
While most known for automotive, Michigan has a rich history in design. As a designer mys ...
12/03/2019
- 2019.11“... ...”
- Modern Website Deliverables
You're hiring a web designer or providing web design services, what's included in a norma ...
11/18/2019
- Hooked: How to engage your website audience in one second or less
You have less than one second to make the right impression. Almost immediately after l ...
11/11/2019
- Why Your Website Doesn't Generate Leads (and how to fix it)
You're homepage is beautifully designed. It's clear all the ways you can help. You've art ...
11/04/2019
- 2019.10“... ...”
- Does your website need to be beautiful?
When I first started designing websites in the 1990s, I focused most of my attention on c ...
10/18/2019
- 2019.09“... ...”
- 5 Critical Lessons Learned Organizing WordCamp Ann Arbor for the Third Time
In early 2014 I had just gotten married and recently moved into a new home. With two majo ...
09/24/2019
- 2019.08“... ...”
- Fight or Flight: Which Emotion Does Your Website Evoke?
Are you a logical individual? Do you carefully consider all options before making a d ...
08/21/2019
- Astra Pro with Gutenberg Review - Practical Application
At 3.7 Designs we have an array of strategies we use to solve business problems. For exam ...
08/12/2019
- Does the hero image matter?
An overwhelming majority of websites incorporate the "hero image" design pattern. This is ...
08/07/2019
- 2019.07“... ...”
- 10 Design Principles to Reduce Cognitive Load
If you're not familiar with cognitive load and how it impacts interface design, it's wort ...
07/25/2019
- The Three Levels of Emotional Design
To design positive emotional experiences you must understand human emotion. The subject o ...
07/01/2019
- 2019.06“... ...”
- What is cognitive load and why does it matter in web and interface design?
Successful design manages cognitive load. Cognitive load is a technical term for "mental ...
06/27/2019
- Alternatives to NOAH AMS (Association Management System)
Some might tell you the only way to manage your association is through a "one size fits a ...
06/03/2019
- 2019.04“... ...”
- Emotional Design Model - Designing Enjoyable Interactions
The vast range of design styles should be an indicator of just how different personal pre ...
04/23/2019
- The Psychology of Grid Based Layouts in Design
Grids are a fundamental design tool that have been used since the modernization of visual ...
04/10/2019
- What to Know About Using Third Party Technology on Your Website
At one time every website feature was built from scratch. Even the programming languages ...
04/03/2019
- 2019.03“... ...”
- Emotional Web Design
If you have designed a site that addressed five of the six layers of design you have ...
03/28/2019
- Designing with Archetypes
Visual design, like people, has a personality. I've said it many times before, visual ...
03/18/2019
- Facebook Tracking Pixel - What is it and why should you use it
For over a decade we've universally recommended the Google Analytics tracking script ...
03/12/2019
- 50 Point Conversion Optimization Checklist
An optimized website can convert ten times as many users as a non-conversions optimiz ...
03/05/2019
- 2019.02“... ...”
- Psychology of Beautiful Web Design
If you're a frequent reader of this blog you might have noticed I can be critical of visu ...
02/26/2019
- Best Google Analytics Metrics to Track
Google Analytics is a powerful tool provided you can make actionable sense of the reports ...
02/19/2019
- Paper Prototyping for Design Sprints
In an age of abundant user behavior data it's advantageous to adopt a methodology of rele ...
02/15/2019
- Principles of Effective Web Design
Design is a critical aspect of website success, despite the abundance of “ready for you” ...
02/07/2019
- 2018.12“... ...”
- Jobs to Be Done in Web Design
We're huge advocates of creating personas during the strategy phase of web design. If noth ...
12/10/2018
- 2018.10“... ...”
- Website Navigation Design Paterns
When creating a new website, it’s important to consider how visitors will be able to navig ...
10/11/2018
- 2018.08“... ...”
- Making Your Website Navigation Easy
When people visit your website, there’s a good chance they have at least a basic idea of w ...
08/14/2018
- 2018.05“... ...”
- How long does it take to design a website?
If you're in a hurry to get a new website designed--well, we have to be honest with you. Y ...
05/07/2018
- WordPress Website Hosting
I think we can confidently say not all WordPress website hosting is created equal. Is ther ...
05/01/2018
- 2018.04“... ...”
- Released WooCommerce Product Barcode Generator
Creating new, useful tools is what gets us out of bed in the morning. Often times we creat ...
04/13/2018
- How to Use Web Design to Enhance Branding
Web design is something every business owner needs, because every business needs a website ...
04/03/2018
- 2018.03“... ...”
- Determining Your Website Scope of Work
You’re thinking about redesigning your website (or maybe need a new one from scratch). You ...
03/20/2018
- How do you know if your website is successful?
Creating a website for your business is an exciting venture. Working in an online format, ...
03/06/2018
- 2018.02“... ...”
- Website Tracking & Monitoring Tools
The work of making a website is never done. Once you put up the initial site, you need to ...
02/28/2018
- 2018.01“... ...”
- Custom WordPress Theme Design: What to Look For
WordPress is the most popular content management system for a reason. It flexible, extenda ...
01/09/2018
- 2017.12“... ...”
- WordPress Themes: Custom Development or Existing Premium Theme
With an ample amount of premium WordPress themes available you might question the need to ...
12/12/2017
- Using Design Adjectives to Determine Look and Feel
One of the biggest challenges in interface design is identifying the tone or personality t ...
12/06/2017
- 2017.10“... ...”
- Growing a WordCamp Year After Year
The fourth WordCamp Ann Arbor just wrapped up, and the initial feedback is that it was the ...
10/17/2017
- Website Browsing Behavior Patterns
One of the most common complaints about websites is that important information can be diff ...
10/16/2017
- 2017.08“... ...”
- The Need for NonCamps
2017 was the year of my foray into non-Camp WordPress conferences. They’ve changed my pers ...
08/29/2017
- 2017.06“... ...”
- Design - Usable Doesn't Mean Useful
The term "usability" receives a lot of attention in the web design space and with good rea ...
06/14/2017
- How to Create Personas for User Experience
User personas are one of the most effective ways to improve the quality of your designs. O ...
06/06/2017
- 2017.05“... ...”
- Website Redesign Checklist
Congratulations on starting a website redesign process. If your business or organization i ...
05/31/2017
- User Experience Design with Mental Models
Have you ever tried a new product expecting it to be difficult but found it simple? Or how ...
05/10/2017
- 2017.04“... ...”
- From Service to Product - Starting a Premium WordPress Plugin Company
Seven years ago I hired a business coach to help me through a difficult time in my career. ...
04/17/2017
- 2017.03“... ...”
- Mastering the Design Approval Process
Being a designer means channeling your soul into bringing something new into the world... ...
03/20/2017
- 2016.12“... ...”
- The Principles of Minimalist Web Design
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more ...
12/21/2016
- Website Discovery Questions
If you've done your job during the sales process, you'll have a solid understanding of wha ...
12/02/2016
- 2016.11“... ...”
- User Psychology in Website Design
Usability discussions are plagued with self-reflection. Designers assess how obvious somet ...
11/30/2016
- 2016.09“... ...”
- The ROI of Usability
Usability and investments are alike in the sense you get what you give. Very few design pr ...
09/27/2016
- Is WordPress Ready to be a Business Application Platform?
WordPress was originally built for blogging. Eventually it evolved into a content manageme ...
09/07/2016
- 2016.08“... ...”
- DRYing out WordPress Asset Enqueuing
WordPress has several handy functions for granular control over external assets. Specifica ...
08/16/2016
- 2016.07“... ...”
- Usability is more than a checklist
Some designers treat usability as a series of checklists, assuming usability is no more th ...
07/28/2016
- Evolving the Design Discovery Process
The design phase used to be the most time consuming part of our project but now it's the s ...
07/19/2016
- Re-Prioritizing Usability
Everyone agrees usability is important. Yet every day unusable websites find their way onl ...
07/13/2016
- Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau Engages 3.7 Designs and MLive Media Group
Named one of the top 10 islands in the world by Conde Nast and top 10 sustainable islands ...
07/11/2016
- 2016.04“... ...”
- What to Know When Working with WordPress VIP for the First Time
From the inception of WordPress VIP I've wondered what it was like to work on a VIP-hosted ...
04/13/2016
- 2016.03“... ...”
- Practicing Reliable Design
You may question first how reliability has anything to do with design, but it's one of the ...
03/22/2016
- 2016.02“... ...”
- Planning a Website or Website Redesign: First Things First
There is no greater factor in website success than the planning phase. You might be tempte ...
02/16/2016
- 2016.01“... ...”
- Useful WordPress Hacks, Functions and Routines
The longer you work with WordPress the more often you find yourself needing to do somethin ...
01/23/2016
- Paying Respect to the "WordPress Assembler"
Having recently returned from WordCamp US, I find myself wondering if we're not paying eno ...
01/05/2016
- 2015.11“... ...”
- Organizing a WordCamp, Lessons Learned After Two Years
I am writing this a few days after WordCamp Ann Arbor 2015. This was the second WordCa ...
11/02/2015
- 2015.10“... ...”
- Getting Past the Blank Canvas
I'm sure you can picture a time when you've been ready to start a new design, opened up Ph ...
10/19/2015
- Modifying WordPress Post/Page Quick Links (subsubsub menu)
If you've ever done any permission management that alters what posts, pages or custom post ...
10/01/2015
- 2015.08“... ...”
- In Defense of Beautiful Web Design
Designing for "beauty" has come under fire by many bloggers (including yours truly.) Th ...
08/25/2015
- Designing for Users and Stakeholders
A site's purpose can be split into satisfying the needs of two very different groups: stak ...
08/11/2015
- 2015.07“... ...”
- The Root of All Design
The first and most important layer in the hierarchy of design needs is functionality. If f ...
07/07/2015
- 2015.06“... ...”
- I've learned to do things in batches
I used to furiously switch from task to task, completing small tasks as they came up while ...
06/05/2015
- 2014.11“... ...”
- Great User Experiences Manage Ego Depletion
Ego depletion... it sounds like something Freud would talk about or maybe what you had for ...
11/04/2014
- 2014.10“... ...”
- Using the Link Description in WordPress for Multi Line Menus
Designers aren't cruel, sometimes they just don't know better... I should know, I am one. ...
10/03/2014
- 2014.08“... ...”
- Restricting Access to Custom Post Types Using Roles in WordPress
Custom post types extend the capabilities of WordPress in terms of what types of content c ...
08/05/2014
- 2014.07“... ...”
- Think Twice About Adding that Feature
Anyone managing a product will often be tempted to add features as a way of improving the ...
07/14/2014
- 2014.06“... ...”
- Designing for the First Five Seconds at WordCamp Chicago
Below are my slides and summary of a talk I delivered at WordCamp Chicago, 2014. Link to v ...
06/15/2014
- 2014.05“... ...”
- Reviving the Hierarchy of Design Needs
When I was approached by a large publisher to author a book on design I was humbled by the ...
05/28/2014
- Designing with Intention
Anytime you design there exists a choice to do so intentionally or intuitively. The intuit ...
05/06/2014
- 2014.04“... ...”
- Great Design via Psychology
I was a web designer for over ten years before I understood that some of the best designs ...
04/24/2014
- 2014.03“... ...”
- Project Panorama - A WordPress Project Management Plugin
Two years ago I authored a simple project visualization plugin dubbed "Project Status. ...
03/19/2014
- 2014.02“... ...”
- Learning to love your users: Successful websites focus on great experiences
Considering the web is legally old enough to buy alcohol, we still make a lot of mistakes ...
02/13/2014
- 2013.10“... ...”
- The Fold: Enough is Enough
I rarely remember my dreams. Sometimes they're gone so quickly I'm not sure I ever actuall ...
10/15/2013
- 2013.09“... ...”
- Introductiong WP-Trivia, a Jeopardy Style Theme for WordPress
Story Two years ago while planing WordCamp Detroit 2011, the organizers and I decided t ...
09/03/2013
- 2013.06“... ...”
- 10 Ways To Approach Design Scientifically
Desired outcomes are the cause of all design. With the commercial web, design primarily ex ...
06/12/2013
- 2013.04“... ...”
- Being Able to Say "No" Is a Business Milestone
Last week the 3.7 Designs team was invited to speak at LA2M about customer service and cli ...
04/18/2013
- Design to Solve a Problem, Not to Use a Technique
Skeuomorphism vs flat design, responsive vs device specific, web vs native app... These ar ...
04/01/2013
- 2012.11“... ...”
- Objective Driven Design (ODD)
If you define design as "to devise for a specific function or end," it's hard to imagine d ...
11/29/2012
- Stop Designing Mobile Websites
It's on everyone's lips, it graces countless blog posts and everyday more people are talki ...
11/08/2012
- 2012.08“... ...”
- 10 Psychological Principles to Design With
Design is most effective when executed with knowledge of psychology. Knowing how people re ...
08/02/2012
- 2012.07“... ...”
- Emotional Aspects of Usability
Logic and statistics drive many usability discussions. How many users accomplished a task? ...
07/05/2012
- 2012.06“... ...”
- The Transformation of the Underline
One of the beautiful things about working at the forefront of technology is seeing the wor ...
06/12/2012
- 2012.05“... ...”
- Snippet: Mobile First is History Repeating
As a fan of Jakob Neilsen and a skeptic of the "every design should be responsive" methodo ...
05/07/2012
- Snippet: Designing Navigation, a GitHub Case Study
I respect navigation more than any other element on a website. Little else commands the re ...
05/04/2012
- Design, Copy and Mental Processing
Most discussions of speed and websites focus on response time, download footprint and rend ...
05/03/2012
- 2012.04“... ...”
- Clark is Wrong About Nielsen Being Wrong About Mobile
Earlier last week, I was pleasantly surprised when Jacob Nielsen posted a report on mobile ...
04/17/2012
- 2012.03“... ...”
- Project Status Plugin for WordPress
Don't care why I created the plugin? Skip the explanation and download it here. The mos ...
03/13/2012
- Redundant is Usable
Over the past fifteen plus years of designing websites for other people, I have received c ...
03/07/2012
- 2012.02“... ...”
- Selective Disregard, Why It's Causing Your Website To Fail
Few websites are designed with bad intentions. If the designer or stakeholders care about ...
02/22/2012
- 2012.01“... ...”
- Why Coders Need to Understand Design
I see more web professionals specializing these days. There was a time where web designers ...
01/25/2012
- 23 Great Web Design Books for Under $5
If you're anything like me you probably have six books you are reading at any one time. My ...
01/12/2012
- Parallax Scrolling Effect - 12 Tutorials and Resources
I try not to succumb to the lure of new design tricks but alas I am human. While I have be ...
01/05/2012
- 40 Web Fonts for Body Copy
Few words can describe the euphoria I felt upon learning of widespread @font-face support. ...
01/03/2012
- 2011.12“... ...”
- The Web Design Sketchbook, Version Three
Early December 2008 was when I first held a prototype of what I would later call "The Web ...
12/12/2011
- Responsive Web Design, is it the Answer? or Just Responsive?
I have shrugged off responsive web design for some time now despite it's growing popularit ...
12/06/2011
- 2011.11“... ...”
- More Free Project Management Tools
Several years ago I wrote a post which became shockingly popular called "Free Project Mana ...
11/08/2011
- 2011.08“... ...”
- The New Designer Mindset
With design, there is no universal "best approach" that will apply to all situations. Thos ...
08/04/2011
- Designers Are Scientists, Not Artists
I run across references of design as art on almost a daily basis. Somewhere down the road, ...
08/03/2011
- 2011.07“... ...”
- You Can't Just "Redesign" Digital News
I admire Andy Rutledge for saying what he thinks, even though I don't always agree with wh ...
07/29/2011
- A Humbling Observation on the State of Web Designers
Today, the vast majority of websites are still designed and built by talented generalists, ...
07/22/2011
- My Beef With "Universal Design"
I have been a web accessibility advocate since as early as 2005. Since then I have done pr ...
07/14/2011
- 2011.06“... ...”
- Is the Designer Always Right?
Due to a few interesting posts on Forrst.com and some interesting client interactions, I h ...
06/21/2011
- 2011.05“... ...”
- Voices that Matter, 2011
I had the fortune of attending the Voices that Matter Conference last year in San Francisc ...
05/25/2011
- 2011.04“... ...”
- We Are All User Experience Designers
Trends come and go, people become excited about new concepts and old ones become old and b ...
04/19/2011
- 2011.03“... ...”
- The Truth about F.A.Q. Sections
“Frequently Asked Questions” is a phrase we all know and love. Or is it? Good question. Pe ...
03/28/2011
- The Truth About Your News Section
You may be limiting the effectiveness of your homepage through the design treatment of you ...
03/07/2011
- 2011.01“... ...”
- Design Is Not What You Think It Is
Growing up I had many hobbies that I was passionate about. From computer to cars, fine art ...
01/30/2011
- Using Dropbox as a Project Management Tool
If you are anything like me you started designing on the web because you loved design, not ...
01/18/2011
- Browser Chrome for Your Moleskine
If you have seen my Web Design Sketchbook project it should be no surprise that I am a hug ...
01/06/2011
- The Web Design Process is All Wrong
I recently did a presentation at local marketing group LA2M in which I explained how chang ...
01/04/2011
- 2010.11“... ...”
- Simple
Simplicity, so elegant yet so elusive. The web by and large does a terrible job of bein ...
11/11/2010
- 2010.10“... ...”
- Why Wired Had It Wrong - The Internet is Dead
I can remember reading an article in Wired magazine in 1998 that described the all to near ...
10/24/2010
- How To Design Using The Fibonacci Sequence
Not too long ago I posted an article that outlined ten laws to design by. I was ecstatic w ...
10/12/2010
- 2010.08“... ...”
- Everything You Know About Content Strategy is Wrong
Concepts travel absurdly fast when it comes to the web. This is not surprising as those wo ...
08/24/2010
- More Official Design Approvals
If you are in the design business you will run into post-approval changes, nothing is goin ...
08/11/2010
- Nobody Gives a Shit About Your Logo
The four little words that make designers cringe, "make the logo bigger." We joke about it ...
08/01/2010
- 2010.07“... ...”
- Ten Laws to Design By
— Updated Feb 2020 As designers we have to be aware of the function of our work and desig ...
07/27/2010
- It's Not Just What You Present, But How You Present It
Designers, how you show your clients/bosses a concept has just as much impact over sign of ...
07/21/2010
- Your Design May Be Beautiful, but It Might Still Suck...
I want to preface this post by first saying that I believe one of the great strengths of o ...
07/13/2010
- Safe Ways to Code a Site in HTML5 Now
I will be the first to say that it is questionable if HTML5 is really a realistic technolo ...
07/06/2010
- The Business Case for Microformats
There is so much that happens with web design it is easy to miss important pieces of techn ...
07/01/2010
- 2010.06“... ...”
- Best techniques for modern font implementation
Great designs take advantage of typography. The days of limited font choices and poor anti ...
06/01/2010
- 2010.05“... ...”
- Go Green With Your Design Company
Being environmentally friendly doesn't just apply to automakers. We all should be aware of ...
05/11/2010
- Is HTML5 "Book Ready"?
In many ways I am a creature of habit. There are some things that I end up doing every mor ...
05/04/2010
- A Review of Basecamp, as Web Designers
As a creative type project management ranks on the "fun scale" somewhere between falling o ...
05/03/2010
- 2010.04“... ...”
- Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference
If you missed out on South by South West this year (like me) and are looking for a good co ...
04/22/2010
- Designing with Intention
Since I have started teaching design I have had to find ways to articulate concepts that I ...
04/15/2010
- Website Redesign Criteria
Most companies are to the point where they have already gone through several iterations of ...
04/04/2010
- 2010.01“... ...”
- Why aren’t you using Microformats?
What are Microformats? Simple data formats designed for humans first and machines second. ...
01/29/2010
- 2009.12“... ...”
- Using Wireframes for Web Strategy
Recently, Andy Rutledge of Unit Interactive and Design View wrote a compelling article que ...
12/14/2009
- 2009.11“... ...”
- Win a Free Copy of the Web Design Sketchbook
Despite the fact that so many tasks are being turned from "paper" based (messaging, bankin ...
11/25/2009
- 2009.10“... ...”
- Website Strategy - High Level Overview
A few weeks ago I presented at LA2M, a networking lunch in Ann Arbor that covers new and u ...
10/25/2009
- How to Create Inset Text With CSS3
The new CSS3 properties being adopted by browser manufactures gives us whole new ways to c ...
10/22/2009
- 2009.09“... ...”
- Improve Conversions through Persuasion
If you work with websites you should be thinking about conversion and how to maximize the ...
09/09/2009
- 2009.08“... ...”
- "Mockup Present" - A Tool for Designers and Developers
I have always found that the design approval process can be extremely easy or extremely ha ...
08/06/2009
- 2009.07“... ...”
- Review of Thesis WordPress Framework
They say that you should never work for friends or family (or maybe I just say that?), but ...
07/23/2009
- Usability / Web Meet Up This Saturday, July 18th
Those of you in the area who are interested in all things web related should consider join ...
07/13/2009
- Mood boards are an Essential Step in Design
As of late I have found that creating and using mood boards to be an essential step in bot ...
07/11/2009
- 2009.06“... ...”
- The rule of thirds and the golden ratio are not the same...
Last night I had an interesting conversation with colleague Laura Fisher of Mitten Artwork ...
06/30/2009
- WebAxe episode 77 - Twitter and Accessibility
For those of you who are interested in web accessibility or twitter, have a listen to the ...
06/22/2009
- Introducing "Today In Design"
I find that staying educated and current is one of the more challenging and exciting parts ...
06/01/2009
- 2009.05“... ...”
- Using strategy to define scope of content
If your kick off meetings go anything like a majority of mine do, at some point or another ...
05/28/2009
- Blogging for Business Podcast
Here in Ann Arbor we have a weekly lunch group which discusses new media and digital marke ...
05/20/2009
- :active, use it damn it...
After reading a few books on usability I had an "ah ha" moment. We spend so much time tryi ...
05/16/2009
- Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks - Review
I was the lucky winner of a giveaway over on Monday by Noon awhile back, my prize of the n ...
05/08/2009
- 2009.04“... ...”
- Reverse Developing Website Strategy
The common approach to building a website is in my opinion, backwards. Meaning that we all ...
04/24/2009
- Website Art Direction Redux
Despite Art Direction having been discussed as early 2004, it is now gaining more attentio ...
04/18/2009
- The future of news, print vs internet
A friend of mine has been doing research into the current state of print media and the slo ...
04/09/2009
- 2009.03“... ...”
- WebAxe reviews Recovery.gov
Dennis Lembree and I review the Recovery.gov website on the latest WebAxe podcast. If you ...
03/18/2009
- Make strategy a part of your offering
Web design has reached a point of maturity where we should no longer simply be a collectio ...
03/10/2009
- 2009.02“... ...”
- Design with Consistency
Most web designers are at a natural disadvantage when it comes to ensuring that things are ...
02/28/2009
- Why you should bill for everything....
While I have a minor in business, most of the lessons that I have learned about how to run ...
02/24/2009
- How to Respond to an Authentic Jobs Posting
Looking into the next few months I am seeing an influx of ongoing, relationship based work ...
02/22/2009
- The case for XHTML/CSS Style Guides
I have been working for a short while on a side project that I have already found very use ...
02/10/2009
- The importance of controling feedback and critique
Any designer who has produced work for anyone other than themselves knows how tricky the d ...
02/06/2009
- 2009.01“... ...”
- Working on working on work
When running your own business, especially a small one (meaning it is myself and two helpe ...
01/31/2009
- Occam's Razor in Web Design, Simplicity Wins
You may have herd of the term "Occam's Razor" before, but most likely it was not in relati ...
01/24/2009
- The Gutenburg Diagram in Design
We are fortunate to be a part of web design as it reaches maturity. With advances in techn ...
01/03/2009
- 2008.12“... ...”
- We are all consultants
I have never been the type that has been overly pushy about my opinion. In a lot of ways t ...
12/11/2008
- Don't Design for your Client, or Yourself
I recently did a presentation called "It doesn't matter if you like it..." in which I talk ...
12/09/2008
- 2008.11“... ...”
- Wordpress as a CMS tips on Stylized Web
On my blog design related blog I have recently posted an article about making Wordpress cl ...
11/24/2008
- Improve your typography with "typographic contrast"
Having just spent a week in various countries through out Europe I found myself studying t ...
11/15/2008
- 25+ Sites that Use Typography As The Only Design Element
Ever since I heard about the study of typography I was fascinated by it. Upon the word "ty ...
11/04/2008
- 2008.10“... ...”
- Better design by brushing up on your techniques
I often fall into the trap where I limit the scope of my design capabilities by what techn ...
10/31/2008
- Another contender in the sIFR / Facelift Typography Arsenal
I came across an interesting tool called Typeface.js today. It appears to be a worth while ...
10/27/2008
- Effective Web Copy
I am often frustrated with how little attention is put into the messaging on most websites ...
10/24/2008
- cheap macbook pro's on amazon
If you are looking for a deal on a MacBook Pro, check out the listing of the late model 15 ...
10/24/2008
- All the Tools You Need for Rich Web Typography
Typography has come a long way on the web, but we are still stuck with a fairly limited am ...
10/21/2008
- Using Grids for Spatial Awareness
In my last post I talked about the importance of spatial awareness and some basic details ...
10/14/2008
- Spatial Awareness in Design
Have you ever come across a design that is so simple, so clean, yet so beautiful that it m ...
10/10/2008
- 2008.09“... ...”
- Interfaces are not allows supposed to be "pretty"
I just want to rant real quickly. There are many cases where an online/web application is ...
09/23/2008
- E-commerce Checkout, should we have steps or single page?
I had the pleasure of attending a uxnet meeting tonight organized by local information arc ...
09/17/2008
- Structure Your Flow for Conversion
"Optimizing Landing Pages" is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is w ...
09/15/2008
- 2008.08“... ...”
- Writing for Personality Profiles (Optimizing Landing Pages, Part 3)
"Optimizing Landing Pages" is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is w ...
08/31/2008
- My life as a web design / development entrepreneur...
I feel that I live a pretty fortunate life, that is to say I am able to work full time on ...
08/27/2008
- Design Discovery Document, What I Use to Learn More About Client Needs...
I recently posted about how to improve your creative process, and one of the core elements ...
08/13/2008
- As designers we need to use more adjectives in our work...
Adjectives? Wait am I confused? Should I be talking about copy writing? No no, I assure yo ...
08/09/2008
- The line between inspiration and stealing design...
While it might be strange to hear, I was pleasantly surprised last weekend when I had seve ...
08/07/2008
- Verizon Wireless Customer Service - More like customer dis-service
Now normally I am not a huge fan about blog complaints about companies, I would rather wri ...
08/04/2008
- 2008.07“... ...”
- Improve Your Creative Process, Better Design, Quicker Approvals
There are two things I struggle with the most in my job, staring at a blank photoshop canv ...
07/26/2008
- Ever experienced this in the creative process?
Hate to say it but it hits pretty close to home. Anyone else? I have found that the more a ...
07/23/2008
- Optimizing Your Landing Pages, Part 2 - Copy Basics
"Optimizing Landing Pages" is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is w ...
07/19/2008
- Optimizing your Landing Pages, Part 1 - Initial Planning
"Optimizing Landing Pages" is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is w ...
07/13/2008
- How much do you optimize your landing pages?
Just a quick question for readers of this blog, if you have a moment I would love to hear ...
07/01/2008
- 2008.06“... ...”
- 10 Web Design books you probably missed but owe yourself to read
Believe it or not, despite the short lifespan of the industry; the web design community is ...
06/29/2008
- The demand will come...
There are a lot of freelancers and budding web design companies out there who are more or ...
06/26/2008
- Ann Arbor Startup Weekend, Day 2 + 3
Well I didn't get to blog about day two by itself, so I figure I will just combine my thou ...
06/22/2008
- Startup Weekend Ann Arbor, Day 1
Startup weekend is a new "type" of event that has been popping up here or there. The conce ...
06/21/2008
- Adobe Acrobat 9, making web design / development easier?
One of the fortunes I have had in my career is the starting and participation of the Detro ...
06/19/2008
- Using CSS and GIF’s to animate a menu
Remember our good old friend the animated gif? There was a time when the ability to animat ...
06/16/2008
- We as web developers need to be creative in our messaging...
I have noticed a trend over the last few months (maybe longer) in relation to a lot of web ...
06/12/2008
- Using Color as Communication
As designers, web developers, or marketers we spend a lot of time developing different for ...
06/09/2008
- 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it...
Lately I have been very interested in how far we can take Typography only using CSS. Sure ...
06/02/2008
- 2008.05“... ...”
- Yahoo SearchMonkey... the google killer?
I had the great fortune of having the Yahoo SearchMonkey team speak at last nights Refresh ...
05/22/2008
- 8 fonts you probably don't use in css, but should
CSS has brought us many capabilities in terms of typography and the web, but we always see ...
05/08/2008
- 2008.04“... ...”
- 12 websites that slide and scroll with javascript
There has been a new trend in standards based design over the last year. The effect seems ...
04/21/2008
- 5 fonts I wish would die
I don't claim to be the utmost expert in typography, as much as I love the subject. Beauti ...
04/14/2008
- Free Mac Project / Time Management Tools
If you are like me, you use a mac because well... they are (trendy/creative/easy/fun/cheap ...
04/08/2008
- 2008.03“... ...”
- Should we give up wordpress as a CMS?
For a long time I pushed wordpress as a great alternative to some of the common OS solutio ...
03/18/2008
- A little bit about the redesign, the how and why
The biggest motivator for the redesign was to really clean up the site. When I first made ...
03/14/2008
- Online testimonials, does anyone care?
Credibility on the web is a funny thing, as the medium itself can be so anonymous. Yet whe ...
03/12/2008
- Most Used CSS Tricks
Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see he ...
03/12/2008
- 2008.02“... ...”
- 10 Best CSS Hacks
If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS ...
02/14/2008
- Menu / Meal Planner - MealMixer.com
Having just read the great book "Call To Action" and now working with local online menu pl ...
02/13/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, E-trade kid and clown
YouTube Private Video YouTube Private Video2 Apparently e-trade is easy. So easy, th ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Bridgestone Commercials
Screaming animals, Saab automobiles, and Richard Simmons? Bridgestone has had a cr ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Planters Peanuts Ugly Woman
Can the smell of delicious peanuts make you more attractive? Planters would like y ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Budlight Carlos Mencia Accent
This commercial was entertaining, and brought a few chuckles. Bud light has long been know ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Doritos Message from your heart
Can't say I quite understand how Doritos and "message from your heart" really connect? Dor ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Diet Pepsi Max
Diet Pepsi Max cleverly associates falling asleep at inconvenient times (and sometim ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercial, Audi R8 commercial
The Audi R8 commercial mimicking the Godfather did a good job of presenting the at ...
02/03/2008
- Superbowl Commercials, can't wait!
I am sitting in snowy Park City, Utah with a cocktail and my family watching the start of ...
02/03/2008
- 2008.01“... ...”
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Ep 9 - Microsites
It seems that only very large companies have bothered with microsites. It might be due to ...
01/25/2008
- Online Media Placement - do you need critical mass?
PayPerClick and Search are the big rage now days when it comes to internet marketing and p ...
01/21/2008
- Optimized Press Releases for Time Sensitive Marketing
Sometimes you need a keyword push for a very specific period of time, the holiday seasons ...
01/14/2008
- 2007.12“... ...”
- PNG Transparency Issues
If you are CSS coder, you've probably ran in to png transparency problems many times. Even ...
12/30/2007
- Advanced CSS Menu Trick
CSS really opens the doors to a lot of powerful and rich opportunities. It is funny how su ...
12/22/2007
- Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites - Review
Author, blogger, and web designer Kevin Potts sent me a copy of his new book Web Design an ...
12/16/2007
- Design with a consistent voice
When I was a young designer I concentrated too much on wowing the client, user, etc... ...
12/15/2007
- Market your Web Skills - a response
Those who follow the delicious popular list probably noticed an article labeled The 10 mos ...
12/04/2007
- 2007.11“... ...”
- It is time to develop systems
In the past few years of owning a business I have learned that no matter what you do, you ...
11/28/2007
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Ep 8 - Website Goals & Tracking
Every website has at least one goal, if not a handful. However people often fail to plan t ...
11/23/2007
- How CSS Frameworks should work
It seems people are still up in arms over CSS Frameworks, and specifically blue print css. ...
11/21/2007
- 7 Tips for Client Mockups
A large part of any web design company is going to be presenting and going back and forth ...
11/12/2007
- Design - Evolution vs Redesign
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether one should redesigning or evolve a ...
11/09/2007
- 960px Photoshop Grid Template
Yesterday I talked briefly about making sure you have a wide enough template when designin ...
11/07/2007
- Give your self margin in mockups
A few weeks ago I was at a photo shoot and the photographer said something profound that d ...
11/06/2007
- Free Font Resource?
Stumbled across Fawnt.com, looks like a dig resource for fonts - possibly free fonts? If y ...
11/05/2007
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Ep 7 - The Sales Funnel
Like it or not all websites try and sell something. It might be a product, a service, ...
11/03/2007
- Textpattern as a CMS dominates wordpress
I know I am not alone in the realm of trying to warp wordpress into some sort of worthwhil ...
11/01/2007
- 2007.10“... ...”
- Free autography copy of Join The Conversation by Joseph Jaffe
I had the privilege to talk to and hear Joseph Jaffe give an excellent presentation last n ...
10/28/2007
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Ep 6 - Search Engine Optimization
During ArbCamp I lead a discussion about search engine optimization, in which I recorded f ...
10/28/2007
- Arbcamp SEO presentation / discussion
Seo presentation went well, will post podcast and notes here and on arbcamp - stay tuned ...
10/27/2007
- arbcamp mid day
So far so good. Podcasting session was a bit too technical for the audience, helpful for t ...
10/27/2007
- online langauge analysis / linguistic analysis
I attended an interesting discussion last night by Ed Vielmetti of Pure Visibility in wh ...
10/24/2007
- Best Free Internet Marketing Tools
The "new marketing" or "Internet Marketing" buzz seems to hum a little louder with each ...
10/16/2007
- Co-working and co-living
I just finished reading a book called "The Four Hour Work Week" which details how anyone c ...
10/02/2007
- Perceived Value on the Web
One of the major aspects of any marketing campaign is to manage perceived value. Perceived ...
10/01/2007
- 2007.09“... ...”
- Some of us need help writing (me?)
Any frequent reader of my blog has likely figured out that when it comes to grammar, punct ...
09/13/2007
- CSS TABS - CSS Only "DOM TABS"
While working on my company site redesign, and a new project CSS Uber Clean Gallery I came ...
09/12/2007
- My latest brochure proof
After listening to a SXSW podcast about the 4 hour work week, I decided that I should re ...
09/11/2007
- 2007.08“... ...”
- affordable link building
I recently signed up for PayPerPost in an effort to see where the service played in the in ...
08/21/2007
- Thoughts on Type
Some may have read over my two posts on the possibility of using times new roman on the we ...
08/21/2007
- Proof that Times New Roman can be attractive
I stumbled across this site that uses times new roman effectively. He could have stuck wit ...
08/18/2007
- Web Typography - 40 sources for inspiration and instruction
CSS, javascript, and flash has brought the web design community a long way in what we are ...
08/16/2007
- Ann Arbor Event, Troy Event - Become a Leader
For those who attended the Seth Godin event, you know how well the Connect Ann Arbor event ...
08/14/2007
- Baseline & Gridding
The importance of setting up a baseline and grid to properly align your elements is finall ...
08/01/2007
- 2007.07“... ...”
- Web Design Marketing Podcast EP 5 - Competitive Analysis
This is one of the key elements to a successful web campaign, yet so few people actu ...
07/31/2007
- Breaking the Grid in Design???
Blue Flavor has an interesting blog post on designing with out a grid. Very good read, and ...
07/30/2007
- What the newspapers missed, and you might too
My company, 3.7 Designs had the fortune of getting a few mentions and the logo published i ...
07/27/2007
- Ann Arbor Art Fair? Can It Teach Me Anything?
Ann Arbor — The "Mini New York". To say that Ann Arbor puts a great deal of emphasis on ...
07/17/2007
- My 15 seconds of fame with Seth Godin
While not as cool as Derek's one on one talk with the master, I did end up getting some ni ...
07/11/2007
- 2007.06“... ...”
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Ep 4 - Online Branding & Exposure
Sure enough, not all marketing is done directly through your website. There are many o ...
06/29/2007
- You are the weakest link
Its no pick nick running a company, and after you get to a particular size you just have t ...
06/11/2007
- Niche Marketing, Important online and beyond
In my last few podcasts I have been discussing the importance of marketing to specific nic ...
06/03/2007
- 2007.05“... ...”
- Web Design Marketing Podcast (EP3) - Targeting Baby Boomers
In our last podcast I discussed why it is important to market to a specific group. Tod ...
05/29/2007
- Free Project Time Management Tools | The Best Software
I will admit it, I hate the project management aspect of my job. While I love talking to c ...
05/23/2007
- CSS Typography - Taking back Times new Roman
Taking Back: Times New Roman Yes all designers HATE times new roman, but let's face it †...
05/09/2007
- Web Design Marketing Podcast (EP 2) - Your Target Market
Your target marketing is one of the essential elements to marketing your website. Too ma ...
05/03/2007
- Getting out and Staying In
It doesn't take a long time of being self employed or freelancing to figure out that you c ...
05/02/2007
- 2007.04“... ...”
- Web Design Marketing Podcast Episode 1 - Calls to Action How / Why
Introduction Every site is selling or marketing something. Even this blog, I am trying ...
04/25/2007
- Ann Arbor Event - Seth Godin in Ann Arbor
Local to Ann Arbor or the Michigan Area? I have an exciting event that you really owe your ...
04/23/2007
- The void and the separation
I often see voids between us "standard-ities" and the rest of the "web creative world." We ...
04/11/2007
- Justified horizontal navigation with liquid layouts
The use of horizontal navigation on web sites has been around for ages, and with the extre ...
04/09/2007
- 2007.03“... ...”
- What would you like to read?
Watching my feedburner stats, it looks like I have loads of new subscribers compared to ev ...
03/26/2007
- Blogs I read
I just came back from talking to a group of students over at WCC about running a web desig ...
03/22/2007
- The need for inspiring projects
Running a small design firm it is easy to get spread thin trying to appease as many facets ...
03/14/2007
- Tagged | Top Five Reasons I Blog
I have been tagged by Brett Terpstra of Circle Six Design. Which means I get to rant about ...
03/06/2007
- Writing Effective Marketing Copy on the Web
As web designer and developers, we have a deeper responsibility to aid companies in writin ...
03/01/2007
- 2007.02“... ...”
- Creating multi-column layouts automaticly in firefox
Firefox 1.5+ has a pretty cool feature that will split a div into columns via Mozilla spec ...
02/15/2007
- I predict the next big web design trend
There are tons of web design trends that are being used, including badges, bursts, reflect ...
02/12/2007
- Evolution / Future of the web video?
I found this on delicious popular section, very inspiring and well done video about th ...
02/04/2007
- Social Networking Whitepaper
Interested in social networking or how you can take advantage of it? Adage has a Whitep ...
02/03/2007
- Ann Arbor Office Space Available
If you are in need of great office space in Ann Arbor, the following space is availabl ...
02/02/2007
- 2007.01“... ...”
- Dave Pasternack says SEO is useless
The Web Guerrilla himself, Greg Boser had some interesting things to say about Mr. Dave Pa ...
01/29/2007
- Should you create a mobile specific page, and how?
With the release of the iPhone, the mobile web is expected to take off. Even though the ...
01/27/2007
- Web design firms need to do more for their clients
How common is this scenario Client wants website, they contact firms for pricing, pick ...
01/25/2007
- Pfizer closing in Ann Arbor
It looks like Pfizer is closing down their Ann Arbor Office. This is a frightening wake up ...
01/22/2007
- Styling Lists, Tables, Borders and Forms in CSS
Lists Styling Nested Lists Multi Column Lists Spruced Up Site Maps Taming Lists B ...
01/18/2007
- Watching the behavior of those who have been told what to do
sometimes you have to look at behavior to fully understand, so I make this test! Yu ...
01/09/2007
- Ways to test your site for the mobile web
The buzz about the future of the mobile web is almost defining. Even though the mobile tsu ...
01/08/2007
- Dealing with Transparent PNG's and Printing?
I came across an interesting situation today, where the background of transparent backgrou ...
01/05/2007
- What is affordable SEO? is SEO really affordable?
Search Engine optimization and Marketing is a very new industry compared to most forms of ...
01/04/2007
- Blogging about Rosebowl bloggers
If Brent Musberger, Herb Streit, and Bob Davies comment one more time about the "bloggers" ...
01/01/2007
- 2006.12“... ...”
- 2006 in review, because everyone is doing it.
2006 For Fun Finally broke down and bought a nice German car. Went skiing in Park City ...
12/31/2006
- Social Media Optimization (SMO) - a Rundown
99% of all advertising sales pitches occurring at this very moment are ranting about the n ...
12/27/2006
- Semantic Tags you may have Forgotten
Ensuring that your HTML code is semantic is extremely important. Between HTML's ongoing sh ...
12/26/2006
- About my redesign, just incase anyone cares
I am still working out all the bugs (and there are quite a few), but I think functionally ...
12/21/2006
- Web Design Review - Phaziz.com
Earlier last week, Phaziz was submitted through my CSS Gallery, and I am glad it was. T ...
12/20/2006
- Microsoft Redesigns - Lessons on Marketing, Usability, and Code.
As many people probably have noticed by now, Microsoft has redesigned their homepage. It i ...
12/17/2006
- New features coming -
Being swamped on projects for work, I have been unable to post anything really cool lately ...
12/15/2006
- Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce Year Ender
While many cities have a Chamber of Commerce to help insulate and improve the local busine ...
12/14/2006
- Goodbye Camera, Hello Bitterness
My Camera was stolen out of my office. No forced entry, nothing else was taken... just a q ...
12/13/2006
- Truth is stranger than fiction
While I keep most of my posting related to the web or business, what happened to me this l ...
12/04/2006
- 2006.11“... ...”
- CSS & Standards based Javascript Drop Shadows
CSS Code based on SixApart Writen by Ross Johnson of 3.7 Designs (also an example page) ...
11/29/2006
- CSS Case Study - fixed elements
One of the "special" effect abilities of CSS is the ability to have an element be "fixed" ...
11/21/2006
- Out of sight, website out of mind
Sometimes you have a blunder that is so stupid, that you hate to admit it to anyone... but ...
11/21/2006
- The Semantic DIV, ID, Class, and Span
For those just starting (or even pretty well versed) in CSS and Web Standards, knowing whe ...
11/15/2006
- Oh god... someone stop me.
Yes, my previous two designs were up collectively for less than a few days. I think I have ...
11/09/2006
- My new design, 5 hours after my last one....
While I am not positive, I have a good feeling that completely redesigning a site with in ...
11/08/2006
- Web Standards, are we doing enough?
90% of those reading thus don't need to be convinced as to why Web Standards are important ...
11/07/2006
- What is good design? What I learned from css reboot.
Most people by now have browsed through the Reboot Galleries (CSS Reboot and Standards Reb ...
11/05/2006
- Hello Rebooters
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone stopping by who is viewing my site from either CSS ...
11/01/2006
- 2006.10“... ...”
- The many hats of the web designer
Most of us are not part of a large firm, we are freelancers are small companies. Many of u ...
10/31/2006
- 5 Wordpress Plugins that will turn WordPress into a CMS
Most web developers/designers are extremely familiar with the WordPress blogging platform. ...
10/25/2006
- Writing Lean CSS/XHTML Code
One of the large benefits of using XHTML/CSS over table based or inline page styling is th ...
10/23/2006
- Interviewed Paul Boag of Boagworld.com
Dennis Lembree and I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Boag of Boagworld.com early thi ...
10/18/2006
- 2nd hand dig effect
By now we all know Digg.com's massive potential for traffic to a given site if it makes it ...
10/18/2006
- Yes, I use AdSense... get over it
I see a lot of discussion concerning the use of AdSense on blogs, most complain that it is ...
10/16/2006
- October 12, the day it snowed
Sitting at work, with my cup of coffee to my right and my blog open on my laptop instead o ...
10/12/2006
- SEO and Local Search, ie optimizing Google local
Google local lists three companies BEFORE the number one organic list. That kind of search ...
10/11/2006
- In defense of SEO - it is not sleazy, and it is in fact ethical
Following a post on Mezzoblue, a question I submitted to Boagworld, I have stumbled across ...
10/09/2006
- What will be our Internet? Google knows...
It has been a while since I posted, so I felt I should throw what has been on my mind late ...
10/09/2006
- co-interviewed Author, and Yahoo employee Christian Heilmann
I had the pleasure of joining Dennis on the Accesible Web Design Podcast - "Web Axe" again ...
10/03/2006
- 2006.09“... ...”
- What is google doing? Strange SERP's
Initial Disclaimer - yes I am vane. I was doing a search for my name, to see where I apear ...
09/30/2006
- 9rules network submission round 5
I have read lots of bloggers eagerly awaiting the next round of submissions to the 9rules ...
09/30/2006
- Design optimizing for visuals or for content?
A post by ptvGuy about the Illusion of Accelerated dial, and some conversation from last n ...
09/28/2006
- Ann Arbor Parking?
Learning to park can sometimes be more challenging than learning to drive. It’s an importa ...
09/28/2006
- New Design, Revolution not Evolution...
Yup, I scrapped my previous design for a super clean "whitespace" design. I still have a l ...
09/27/2006
- Thinking about design.. subjective beyond subjective.
Design is a tricky thing - while most people don't realize it, it is very subjective. Ever ...
09/25/2006
- Pictures of Google's new Ann Arbor office
Google moved in down the street from my office, so I figured I would go shoot some picture ...
09/21/2006
- Hosting on Wordpress is valuable for SEO
I previous did a post testing seo value for subdomains, where I tried to see if blogger Ri ...
09/21/2006
- Advanced Typography techniques using CSS
While the descriptions and basic uses for CSS typography controls have been beaten to deat ...
09/20/2006
- My company is real damn it!
I am constantly in situations where I am trying to explain what I do, and it rarely comes ...
09/15/2006
- Marketing in Ann Arbor
I talk a lot about my home town of Ann Arbor Michigan. Those who have not visited or lived ...
09/13/2006
- Best Flight Booking - Do subdomains share value?
A few weeks ago I came across a post on dig discussing how the blogger gained high ranking ...
09/11/2006
- Company / Personal News
I just wanted to make a quick post about the latest going on with my design/company career ...
09/11/2006
- Google is pushing unnatural web design
There is a lot of debate about SEO these days - not only the way it should be performed, b ...
09/06/2006
- 2006.08“... ...”
- Web Design in Ann Arbor - You vs your competition
I often frequent digg and read the latest blogs - and while I can't claim that I am 100% o ...
08/30/2006
- "Best viewed in 800x600 on IE" returns...
I see it more and more, a bad habbit that is rearing it's ugly head on the web again... on ...
08/27/2006
- IE7 is too little too late...
While many web designers and developers are eagerly waiting a "much improved" Internet exp ...
08/24/2006
- Web Design Tweaking
Pual Boag often mentions that sites shouldn't always simply be redone or redesigned. He st ...
08/23/2006
- Use RSS Feeds for keyword rich backlinks
While RSS feeds are no secret in terms of their traffic power, and many SEO consultants wi ...
08/22/2006
- CSS gallery - inspiration or repetition?
Pre:edit - based on this post, I have started a css gallery focusing on display new ideas ...
08/17/2006
- Do SEO experts hide their secrets?
Like most web designers/developers, I see the importance of having a site that is visibly ...
08/15/2006
- Featured on css-website.com
My blog design has been featured on CSS Gallery - Css-Website.com! You can take a look at ...
08/12/2006
- Web 3.0 will be about cheeseburgers.
I have been seeing a lot of Web 3.0 and beyond predictions on digg lately, and frankly the ...
08/10/2006
- Simple Accessible/SEO Flash
Right off the bat I would like to mention that I am not a huge fan of flash, especially fo ...
08/07/2006
- Enough freaking Web 2.0!
While I touched on this briefly in my Web Buzz Words of 2006 post, I am constantly bombard ...
08/02/2006
- Easy sIFR 3 setup
Even though it is supposed to be easy, I had to strugle slightly to get the sIFR3 release ...
08/01/2006
- 2006.07“... ...”
- Web Buzz words of 2006
Scientists theorize that every time one reads "Web 2.0" it kills aproximately six brain ce ...
07/27/2006
- Accessible CSS roll over images
While some might claim that with the increase in typography control in css, and the number ...
07/24/2006
- My life as a Rock Star
That's correct, I consider myself a Rock Star... wanna-be. I often equate making a living ...
07/16/2006
- Blog has a new backend!
Ahh.... nothing like being able to use javascript and DOM to beat IE 6 into submission. N ...
07/15/2006
- Ann Arbor, meet your new tenant... Google
According to ArborUpdate, Internet Giant Google is moving into my home town of Ann Arbor. ...
07/15/2006
- Is flash really just hated by designers?
While reading over a thread on Sitepoint that discussed favorite web designers, I came acr ...
07/15/2006
- Web Design oriented towards your visitors...
All websites are designed towards your visitors, but how many sites are actually designed ...
07/15/2006
- The industry viewed from outside...
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how web design, and web pages are viewed by people ...
07/15/2006
- What you should know BEFORE you start a web design project
Many companies start their web project with contacting a web or graphic designer. This is ...
07/15/2006
- Things you should know about design mock-ups
I received a call yesterday from clients of mine (technology consulting, not web design) a ...
07/15/2006
- Using email to market creatively
The average employee corresponds to other companies via e-mail over ten times a day Ten t ...
07/15/2006
- 2006.04“... ...”
- Start you Search Engine Optimization EARLY!
When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, you need to start NOW! Through working with c ...
04/05/2006