There are many places out there where you can take marketing strategies from and integrate them into your own business. One of those is from a presidential campaign. Take a moment to look at where those who want to be president put their time, and other people’s money, in order to get you to vote […]
Website kill switch: safety net or unethical move?
Whether experienced first-hand or heard of in cautionary tales, everybody is familiar with the horror of not being compensated for one’s work and not being able to do anything about it. Enter a possible solution: a remote kill switch, which gives web designers a back door into a client website via PHP, AJAX or CSS […]
Starting A Web Design Business
Starting a web design business might be simple for those already familiar with internet or educated in the field. If you are aware of the requirements involved in web designing, this might turn out to be a profitable business for you. Nowadays almost all sizable businesses require web presence and more people than ever before […]
Beyond logos or faces
So I was reading Elliot Jay Stocks’s post on the Apple tablet and noticed all the fancy gravatars his commenters had (maybe because they were not as small as the ones in the blogs I frequent). One in particularl that caught my eye was Jeremy Swinnen‘s and made me wonder if, like Sam Wilson‘s, it […]
6 Important Considerations in Choosing a Good Domain Name
When setting up your website one of the most important aspects will be to choose a domain name. It’s that domain name that will stick with you for the lifetime of your site. You can change the template, change the purpose of the site, fire a designer, hire a designer, but you just cannot change […]
Skittles + Social Media = Priceless (From the Archives)
Years from now, people will look back to the day Skittles ditched its flashy site and chose to load the top social websites that talk about it instead. I can’t even begin to fathom how brilliant a campaign this is (despite being pioneered by Modernista exactly a year before). Maybe it’s not. I don’t know […]
Why Web Designers are “Low-hanging Fruit”
Noah Stokes rants about the lack of professionalism in the web design industry. There are several reasons listed, ones involving IE6, Smashing Magazine posts, mentoring, and passion. But this first point got me thinking: First, stop thinking your client is stupid. Your client is not stupid. I don’t care if they want an all Flash […]
Do You Want Big Fast?
Whether you are starting a project or a company do you really want it to grow fast? Do you want to try and control a beast running wild? Far too many of us envision a quick start and a happy finish, but rarely do you see that today. Once that momentum builds up, keeping it […]
Web Trend Alert: Virtual business card sites
Jacob Gube of Six Revisions has compiled 30 visually-stunning sites which are all formatted like virtual business cards. Tim Van Damme, whose dot-com of the same name sparked this trend, also maintains a list as well. There’s little else on each page except a rectangular area found dead-center, filled with icons representing the tons of […]
The real reason IE6 isn’t dead yet
IE6 Must Die, the title of Mashable’s latest post, hit the Twitter trending topics (it’s the new “Digg frontpage”) a few days ago. It’s really a good thing raise awareness for the browser we’ve been dying to get rid of for years now. But as much we should appreciate every little bit towards this goal, […]