Checking out a new service called TypeKit. If you are a web designer then you know well the fact that you are quite limited in what fonts are available when using HTML. SEO Web Design is the practice of making pretty sites that are also optimized for the search engines, too bad you can’t use [...]
WTF Adobe. I just spent an entire day trying to fix a bizzare licensing issue with Adobe CS3 and it seems I am not alone. I was just working along as usual, I had Photoshop and Dreamweaver open like I always do when all of a sudden I get a popup that says “Licensing for [...]
Web designer, web developer, whatever, I build websites and my best clients are design houses that use me to transform their designs into websites. I consider myself very lucky to be doing as well as I do in my particular neck of that woods. Below are a few tools I have been using on a [...]
Everyone knows what a search engine is. Well, my 81 year old mom has a little trouble with the concept but pretty much everyone who has surfed the internet knows what Google and Yahoo are. By the same token, a lot of people know what SEO is or what it means to optimize a website [...]
I moved back to my home town Pittsburgh in 2007 – even after experiencing life in several other cities first hand. In regards to web design, Pittsburgh PA is new to me. I have many clients in MA, VA, FL, TX and a few other states who have stayed with me despite all the moving [...]
On site SEO and web design go hand in hand especially in the world of internet marketing. You can have a great site design that intices the viewer towards the desired objective be it clicking on an ad or subscribing to your feed or buying your latest greatest ebook however, if your not getting traffic [...]
Awesome web design does not guarantee value I know from experience that designing a site that looks totally awesome but does not engage the principles of search engine optimization will be of no value to you or your client. Why do people want websites anyways? People do not venture onto the World Wide Web in order [...]
Web Design is a gigantic subject. There are so many aspects to web design that it is absolutely impossible to cover the entire subject in one blog. Not only are there an endless amount of sub topics, design in itself is so very subjective that any one tutorial or definition can be interpreted in as [...]
For a time I was rather concerned about the semantics of the terms; who does what? Which one makes more money and what the heck do I call myself? There is the school of thought where a web designer is the person who makes web sites and a web developer is one who does… other [...]
This took me WAAAAY too long to figure out. I can’t remember where I found this solution so I apologize for not listing any credit here. The below code shows how to center a site vertically using a floated shim.