Archive for December, 2007

CSS really opens the doors to a lot of powerful and rich opportunities. It is funny how such minor things can create a whole new look, feel, and effect of a site. The beauty of CSS really is that it gives you power, but not too much power. It is not a tool like flash [...]

Advanced CSS Menu Trick

Author, blogger, and web designer Kevin Potts sent me a copy of his new book Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites to review. Originally I intended to review it on my podcast, but my latest podcast is not quite ready and he did send me the book some time ago.
To be honest I [...]

Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites – Review

When I was a young designer I concentrated too much on wowing the client, user, etc… What I failed to realize is all the decoration that I was adding to a design actually interfered with the effectiveness of the design.
Part of this was because I tried to get the design to look “impressive” which [...]

Design with a consistent voice

Those who follow the delicious popular list probably noticed an article labeled The 10 most marketable web development skills, and if you are a web developer like myself you probably clicked on the link. It is an interesting article, but I expected something else — and it seems that a majority of the readers also [...]

Market your Web Skills – a response