There’s a new trend in web design that I’m already getting sick of. Designers, listen up! I know you love your Apple products and it’s great that you’ve found so much inspiration from their designs but please, for the sake of people who aren’t using OS X or Safari, make sure your web designs look good on other operating systems too.
There are a few quick fixes you can apply to your site that can help boost your search rankings. If you haven’t already done these, take a break from what you’re doing and do this first – the results will be well worth the 10 minutes it will take.
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser that is easily extensible with add-ons. With over 12,000 of them, however, discovering new add-ons can be a chore. We’ve compiled a list of more than 25 of the most useful Firefox add-ons for web designers and developers.
Google Analytics is a free service that lets you monitor website traffic and more importantly, understand your visitors and what they are seeking. The data provided by analytics can be immensely useful for creating a targeted website that thoroughly engages your visitors.
As a freelance web designer, I make use of a lot of web-based tools and applications to help manage all aspects of my business. Using these tools has increased my organization, professionalism and timeliness, which in turn has increased profits. The best part? Most offer free plans for single users (aka freelancers).
It’s easy to get lost in the details, finances or prospects of an online project and overlook the time-tested trick to building a successful business: creating value for the end user. This post is to serve as a reminder (for myself more than anyone else) on this simple and obvious concept.
If you’ve been to the site today then you’ve probably noticed that it was down intermittently throughout the evening. One of our articles was featured on Smashing Magazine‘s Twitter stream (sweet!) and I’m sad to say the site crumbled under the traffic spike. I’ve made a few changes that will hopefully make the site more resistant to bumps in traffic.
I found this article suggestion on Skribit and realized that after doing this numerous times for multiple sites, I have a pretty solid technique down for migrating WordPress blogs between hosts. While a large part of it depends on the hosts themselves, I’ve compiled a a list of tips and tricks for moving your site.
I first came across Jon’s work a few years ago, when he made a big splash in the design community with the release of SweetCron, an open source life-streaming platform. Since then, he’s successfully sold his first startup and is now working on two new products – a Twitter marketing app (Peashoot) and a simple survey tool (Seashell).
Last month, I had the pleasure of teaching a friend basic HTML and CSS for a job that required him to know the bare essentials of building a website. Instead of learning how to use Dreamweaver, he wanted to understand the way modern websites work, utilizing CSS stylesheets and table-less layouts.
DevGrow is a journal on web design, development and usability written by Monji Dolon.
