Does your site work with its clothes off? Can you read or navigate the site without the background images?
CSS Naked Day celebrates the separation of content and style by showing just how functional a site is without its fancy colours and image based navigation system. April 5th marks the annual event for web designers who [...]
I haven’t written about web design here for a while because I wanted to focus on ideas on business and marketing. Yesterday I found a great article about web standards I felt compelled to share, as it expresses the reason I am so dedicated to building sites based on standards.
Try to Drive on Poor Design
There [...]
SmashingRed has been around for over a year and a half now and I have learned lots. I have worked with a number of clients to help meet their objectives and goals and continue to do so in the future.
Help Smart Small Business Get the Web Right
In the past few months, working on website projects [...]
Are you giving your blog readers partial feeds?
There is nothing wrong with delivering partial feeds. The main benefit is it ensures people will visit your site to read the complete posts and therefore be exposed to your advertising or messages. In addition, they may benefit from seeing other content that they wouldn’t see if they [...]
I want to announce the first post of my new blog. As it is yet to be named, I am seeking entries for a name for this new blog. There are prizes being offered for submissions. See the post for the rules and to enter.
Seth Godin is on fire this year. Check out his latest eBook Flipping the Funnel. His announcement post on it explains it better than I could.
Call me a cheap bastard or an intellectual socialist, but I can’t seem to swallow the idea that I should be paying to read a research paper that was so prominently marketed to news agencies from a university study. After reading Seth’s post the other day on a story about a study entitled, “Attention web [...]
Seth points us to Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye, a post on a new study that shows that you your website doesn’t have eight, five or even three seconds to wow the visitors to your site, you have about 50 millisececonds.
I guess design and the above-the-fold content better matter.
Sounds like Ontario is the likely place to hold a Web Conference — at least for Canadians wanting to meet in the middle. Mr. Kim Siever over at hotpepper.ca mentioned that he has received feedback that the best place for a Canadian Web Dev and Design Conference might be in Southwestern Ontario (The Golden Horseshoe).
I [...]
To all the Canadian developers and designers for the web, I noted a post on [thelist] the mail list of evolt.org wanting to know if their are any Canadian Web Developer/Designer conferences. It seems as if this is an unheard of event. If anyone out there knows of any other event besides Flash In [...]