A good question! Is it common to minimize JavaScript usage when building a website? | Ars Technica.
Category Archives: Web Design
CSS3 Animations: the Hiccups and Bugs You’ll Want to Avoid | Webdesigntuts+
Excellent write-up of a few things you should be looking out for when using some of the new CSS3 selectors. CSS3 Animations: the Hiccups and Bugs You’ll Want to Avoid | Webdesigntuts+.
Introduction To Linux Commands
Smashing Mag continually publishes great work. This tutorial/Beginner’s Guide is no exception. Introduction To Linux Commands | Smashing Coding.
Some Good Advice About the viewport meta tag
Stop using the viewport meta tag until you know how to use it – htmlboy.
Making Your Website Stand Out to Viewers
I found this breakdown of the path a user’s eyes will take when viewing a website. Some good pointers that should help you with your next design! ‘The Power of a First Impression – Making Your Website Stand Out to Viewers’ by Column Five – Advertising, Art Direction, Design Agency from United States.
W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014
Is it wrong that I am really excited about this? W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 | Ars Technica.
Fullscreen Video Slideshow
Awesome! I will be trying this out very soon with a few ideas for new designs. Fullscreen Video Slideshow with BigVideo.js | Codrops.
Guidelines For Designing With Audio
This was a good read. It contains some basic concepts and techniques to work with while using audio in design. Guidelines For Designing With Audio | Smashing UX Design.
Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate
Remember everyone, the navigation of a website is probably its most important piece of its design. Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate | Smashing UX Design.
New Google SEO Rules for WordPress Users
It’s good to stay up on this type of thing. Google is continually attempting to subvert the cause of the ranking scammers. I also think that with the explosion of the social media scene, things had already been changing with rapid Google algorithm updates. As the social media platform evolves, I imagine we will see …
Adobe Shadow
I was unaware of this program until just now… about to download it. I’ll post more about it after a couple weeks. Download Adobe Shadow – Adobe Labs. And, I haven’t forgotten about those screenshots. I will get them up here as soon as I hear back from my client.
Adobe’s CSS Shaders Now an Official Web Standard
Now this is cool. I’ll be using this technique on future projects! Adobe’s CSS Shaders Now an Official Web Standard | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
New Site Design
I just posted this new layout. Hope you like it! I have said elsewhere that in the past few months I have had this obsession with blue. All shades and variations. I couldn’t help but choose a cool color to immerse myself in. I express this infatuation in, not only this layout but, also one …
Quick Update
Hello everyone! If you are a new visitor to the site, take some time to look around and, as always, please contact me if you have questions and especially if you need some work done. I wanted to add an update since it has been so long. A lot of work this summer as well …
What is WordPress?
It seems there is some confusion about what exactly WordPress can do. WordPress is not only blogging software but is also a cms (content management system). It can be customized in almost every way. There is a difference between wordpress.com (the wordpress hosted blog) and wordpress.org (the self hosted wordpress installation option). The latter is …