N-vent related news: Tonight I finally got around to updating my design portfolio, adding 5 new web designs. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work this summer and fall, and therefore have hardly had time for my own site updates due to the workload. My freelance brethren out there can attest to this. I’ve [...]
Only once in a great while does a piece of software come along that does it’s job very well. Today I am going to write about a content management system that I use daily. This is my “Is it good?” software test: Does it do the job, as opposed to just not working? Does it [...]
Interesting data from W3C Schools and and commentary from Douglas Karr over at the Marketing Technology Blog. Check it out, its worth a read. //
Insightful article by Jeff Croft, in which he muses “if the reason CSS’ version number has moved exactly one decimal point in almost a decade is, at least in part, that there are no designers on the W3C team.” 1. I didn’t find a single name I recognize as a top web designer or developer. [...]
Today I ran across a web designer blog supporting the idea to stop using IE hacks, to just let the browser bugs creep to the visible surface of every IE 6 user out in the web. According to the author: Let’s admit it, we all hate Internet Explorer 6. About 80% of our CSS debug [...]
A good read about some of the bad things that can go wrong with hiring a shady “web designer.” In 2005, Genma Stringer Holmes, founder of Holmes Pest Control in Nashville, hired a Web designer she’d met through her church. She wanted him to create two Web sites to boost sales for her 11-employee, $500,000 [...]
There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.read more | [...]
A while back I released this web design to the open source community, and it’s now a WordPress theme. Download Now | Test Run The Idylic WordPress theme is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Technorati Tags: creative_commons_attribution, open_source, wordpress, web_design, idyllic, idyllic_theme, wordpress_theme //
As most web developers can probably attest to, often there is a “cringe” moment when you pass off a beautiful, well-oiled, smoothly-running website to a lowly (but important) content editor who was volunteered for the job. For the sake of this article, I’m going to lump all of the valiant people who get stuck with [...]
Who says that something good can’t be had for free. Check out this great set of restriction free Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho. Why would someone want to give anything away? It’s guerrilla/viral marketing of course. Well done, Everaldo! Technorati Tags: crystal_clear, free_icons, guerrilla_marketing //
Ian is a freelance web developer living and working in Indiana. Visit my LinkedIn profile.
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