Color Combinations That You Should Not Use
I often send people to the COLOURlovers site to get some ideas for color combinations to use on their website. If you have never been to COLOURlovers to poke around it has so many great color combinations that I couldn’t count them all. One of my favorite pages there comes from nature. They recently posted […]
More Great Text Effects To Try
I am always looking for ways to make cool text and other images for the sites that I design. Having great image effects can really make a site stand out from the rest. I recently found a site called Design Vitality and they have a post called “51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See”. […]
Which Statistics Package Should I Use?
I read a post by By Kevin Newcomb of The ClickZ Network talking about “Comparing Web Analytics Packages”. There are many good ones, but before you compare or decide on a package you need to establish just what and how much information about your site that you are looking for. Do you just want to […]
Can We Do Better Than The iPhone?
Michael Robertson has posted an article called “9 Things an iPhone Can’t Do” where he proposes that his Nokia e61i is the better phone. With so much hype surrounding the iPhone you would think it’s perfect, but I don’t think it’s even the best phone right now. As I’ve written before I think I will […]
An Unexpected Result From Google Alerts
I have been using a tool called Google Alerts. Once you sign up for this tool Google will notify you whenever the search keyword term that you choose is found by the search engine on the web. It still says beta, but it seems ready for prime time to me. Whenever Google finds a page […]
Time To Think About Christmas?
Well it’s almost Labor Day here in the US and so it’s time to start thinking about Christmas. Or is it too late? MediaPost’s Email Insider tracks all things related to email marketing and this year the emails with Christmas mentions have started already. They were seen this year as early as August 14. If […]
Some Random Thoughts
I don’t liked underlined words unless they are links. I think it confuses people. For emphasis make your words bigger,change the color, font or ALL CAPS or ANY COMBINATION. People should be able to tell when they have left your site. All of your pages should have the same “look”. Email newsletters are getting harder […]
A New Page – Who Do You Design For?
I have a section of my site where I have a tutorial about starting a web site. It’s a do-it-yourself kind of thing. I am adding a new page called Who Are You Designing For? I really like websites that use shadows well. See my favorite sites. png images make the best shadows because you […]
New Email Signature File
It seems that everyone has some kind of an email sig file. Some just say their name and maybe a cute saying. Some have a phone book on theirs. I have always just put my site address on mine, but today I was reading this post on informationweek.com called “What Does Your E-Mail Signature Say […]
Another Good Free Tool – PHPList
I wrote the other day about a manager for your mailing lists. Here is another one. It’s called PHPList and is a free open source system for managing your email campaigns. PHPList does much more than OpenNewsletter, but is also a bit more complicated to use. It supports the double opt-in subscription mechanism, which means […]
