Web Design

Dark Patterns

Last fall at An Event Apart DC, here was a lot of talk about web standards and content, but one of the underlying themes was “dark patterns.” Dark patterns are not the same as bad design decisions, and they are nothing new. In fact, it...

Microformats

Microformats are small snippets of HTML code that allow you to represent commonly published content in a standardized way so browsers and applications can do something with that information. Types of things that use microformatting include reviews,...

Websites Are Not Set in Stone, But…

Often when we hand over websites to clients, they have questions like: “Can I add another page to the main navigation?” “Can we make that font blue?” “Can we add an image there?” The answer to all of these...

What’s New in CSS3

This is the third generation of the recommendation from the W3C in regards to CSS. Unlike CSS 2.1, which is still unfinished, CSS3 has been broken up into different unique modules. What this means is that CSS for layout will go into one specific...

Go Green and Design for Print

Many of our clients focus on "going green" and strive to adopt best green business practices. I am very proud to recently have had the opportunity to support one such client. Whenever they print anything, they always save waste by...

WordPress for a Site With Hulu-Like Functionality

This post is a follow up on the article Toni Ellison wrote in December, “Get a Simple Website Using a Blog.” When you think of a blog or a WordPress site, it is usually a small to medium-size website with copy, text, images, and videos...

Get a Simple Website Using a Blog

I have been in the web programming industry for over 10 years, so I get a lot of friends eager to get some free advice on how to create a (free) website for their small business. These people are not very technical, and they are mainly interested in...

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