Archive for October, 2006

Most of us are not part of a large firm, we are freelancers are small companies. Many of us are not working in departments on projects, we rarely work with other companies in greater collaboration.
Because of this we take on roles, that we often don’t see ourselves as. These are roles we should consider, and [...]

The many hats of the web designer

Most web developers/designers are extremely familiar with the wordpress blogging platform. It is a highly supported, open source, plugin diverse piece of software, and it would be a shame if we couldn’t easily turn it into a viable CMS for non blogging sites. Luckily we can!

1. Home Page
Obviously in most cases we don’t want our [...]

5 Wordpress Plugins that will turn Wordpress into a CMS

One of the large benefits of using XHTML/CSS over table based or inline page styling is the semantic and download time values that it brings. However, many people still have plenty of unnecessary mark-up in their code with extra div elements and unneeded classes, etc.

Start from the Top – Common Header mistakes
I am going [...]

Writing Lean CSS/XHTML Code

Dennis Lembree and I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Boag of Boagworld.com early this morning for the Web Axe Podcast.
To say I was excited before, and after the interview is a huge understatement. Even though we have interviewed some great people in the world of the web before, I feel like I really [...]

Interviewed Paul Boag of Boagworld.com

By now we all know Digg.com’s massive potential for traffic to a given site if it makes it to the first page, but I have never considered the possible effect of simply being linked on a page that has made it to the front page. Last night I noticed my daily traffic had jumped a [...]

2nd hand dig effect