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Your Business Website as a Garden: For Show or Food?»
People have gardens for different reasons. There are flower gardens, usually out front where passersby can easily see them, which are meant to provide enjoyment or present a certain “look”…
Web Designer, Web Developer: What’s the Difference?»
The terms “web designer” and “web developer” can mean just about anything, depending on who’s using them and why. I’m going to make a case for definitions that indicate two…
Web Design is Not Just Graphic Design for the Web»
I started my design career as a print designer. At that time, there was no Internet, and no such thing as a website. In fact, computers were not something designers…
Let’s Sit This One Out vs. That Looks Like Fun»
I read Seth Godin’s blog almost daily, and check out just about anything else the man has to say in print or on video. I don’t always agree with him,…
Wanted: A Plumber Who Wants to Grow His Local Business»
To prove that local businesses can grow their business through blogging, we’re looking for a plumber who wants to serve as our “test subject” in a public experiment, which we’re…
62% of Small Businesses Do Not Have a Website: the Glass is 38% Full»
I stumbled onto an article on Entrepreneur’s website (Turn Web Traffic Into Foot Traffic; Justin Kitch) that changed one of my basic assumptions, which was that “most” businesses have a…
Free XHTML/CSS Template for Use with Photoshop 4-Column Grids»
Template no longer available for download (article published in 2009). You should be using Zurb Foundation or Bootstrap as a basis for a responsive website. A couple of days ago, we…
Free 4-column Grid Photoshop Templates for Better Web Design»
Update 11/10/2017: Please note the date of this post. The post does not refer to the relatively new, not widely implemented (yet) Grid Layout. Update 6/15/2015: In this age of…
What? Twitter has Search?»
I don’t know if I should be concerned about this, but Twitter is starting to make sense to me. I just spent an hour listening to Gary Vaynerchuk talking about…
Design Team Roles for Best Results»
DOH! We recently had a glitch on a logo/web design project for which I take complete responsibility. Knowing the client was anxious to get the website completed, I tried to…
