Jan 24, 2014 by Elena Simionescu “Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.” – Scott Cook Trends are the building blocks of culture. They appear and influence (for a while, at least) the way things are done, the way things look, or… Read more »
Dec 13, 2013 by Andra “White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.” – Jan Tschichold When building web pages, designers usually focus on the things that you can see in the design, what they perceive as active elements: fonts, colors, images, text, menus and so on. Unfortunately, white space… Read more »
By Daniel Pataki I’ve been working with WordPress since the dawn of time, and even though I peek at the source code regularly, I still discover new tips and tricks. I’ve compiled my own list of 21 techniques that are handy, clever, fun or best practices rarely followed. I hope everyone finds something new in… Read more »
I’ve fought this battle a great many times in my years here… the battle to get rid of ambiguous, useless page names. As an optimization company it is our main goal as web developers to provide to most marketing friendly site possible. Use of any ambiguous term as a page name/title is harmful and points… Read more »
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Now that anyone can learn to code, and probably should, web design and development are becoming more and more personal in both approach and learning curves. There’s a plethora of ways to tackle web dev and code, and professional designers and developers are no different. We asked several developers from various online publications what their… Read more »
Hey Beautiful People of the Mainstreethost Design Department! I was going through one of my hosting renews. It was a site that we previously designed and took over for “hosting”. As part of the hosting renew procedure, I checked to make sure that if the site had any emails setup in our godaddy account, that there was… Read more »
Dear Valued Client of Mainstreethost, Your website is live and complete, now it is time to become a WordPress Pro! Below I have provided necessary information that you will need for accessing and editing your site as well as training videos for learning the basic functionalities of your new WordPress site. If you have any… Read more »
Hey all, I follow this amazing Blog that posts some pretty sweet websites. I’ll try update this weekly, hopefully some of these will strike inspiration! http://line25.com/articles/25-website-designs-with-unusual-color-combinations 25 Website Designs with Unusual Color Combinations Think of the colour schemes we tend to see modern web design. Aside from the plenty of minimalist sites made up of… Read more »
