Web Design Specialist
What is a web design specialist, or Internet Solutions Architect as I like to think of myself? Well, here in Pittsburgh as is true I’m sure in your town, a web design specialist is more than just someone who will design your website and give it back to you. They are (or should be) a […]
Web Design Survey, 2008
A List Apart has published their findings from the 2008 Web Design Survey. There’s some very interesting information there. Looks like people my age are a tiny minority (much less than 6%), but I’m right in there for most of the other categories. Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008
Good Web Design Hasn’t Changed That Much
There are many things about designing web sites that have changed from the beginning of cyber time and many things that haven’t. I try to point out a well done site every week in my Favorite Site Design category. The truth is that while the look of well done websites has gotten cleaner, easier to […]
I Want To Be Found For Pittsburgh Web Design
A customer of mine, Talk’nTables asked me why he couldn’t be found on Google for his keyword choice of “tabletop advertising”. I explained to him that those words did not appear anywhere on his page. He needed to add them in the headlines and content of his page(s). Within a few days he was on […]
How To Be Found For Your Keywords (Web Design Pittsburgh)
I was speaking to a friend the other day and he asked my advice. It seemed that he could not be found for the particular search term that he fancied and one of his competitors who had a site that looked very amateurish was on the first page of Google for that term. I asked […]
Lowest Price Web Design
I saw an an on Craigslist last night that said basically I’m going to try this again, but I’ve been stuck twice before. He then finished the post by saying that the lowest price will get the job. I wrote to him with some advise. “You say lowest bidder gets the job and then you […]
Free Web Design Tools – Web Developer Plug In
One of the things that I like most about the Firefox browser is that there are so many free plug-ins that will do almost anything that you want. Because the program itself is open source there are thousands of developers who are working on more each day. Because their work is also open source their […]
Web Design Tools
Here’s a great collection of web design tools. I have used several of these and written about some of these tools before, but thepeoplestoolbox has taken the best free web design tools and listed them in one place. You will find: Color Tools CSS Tolls Fonts HTML Tools Icons Images and Much More A very […]
Current style in web design
One of my favorite sites. Current best practice in graphic design for the web, kind of boiled down into an edible form. More…
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
One of my favorite sites to visit is Web Designs From Scratch. Their view of the web has always been close to mine and I have often looked to this site for inspiration. There was a recent post called “Web 2.0 how-to design style guide” and even though I hate the name Web 2.0 and […]