I thought both of these articles from the latest Web Designer magazine were worth sharing. So for your pulse-pounding perusing pleasure, here are some scans courtesy of Mr Biondo. yeah…Sorry they want you to buy the magazine so they don’t put everything online right away. Read Me
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2014/01/27/pragmatic-ux-techniques-for-smarter-websites/ Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites By Marko Dugonjić What is “User Experience Design” exactly? Should you not start it unless you are fully dedicated, or should you embrace it in the process as soon as possible? Are all designers also user experience designers, or is it a separate expertise? The debate is as… Read more »
Jan 16, 2014 by Nick Ray Today, we are living in an era of Responsive Web Design. With everything being affected by the technological advancements, it won’t be wrong to say that Responsive Web Design is definitely here to stay for many more years to come. Considering all the time, money and hard work that… Read more »
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 »
