Blog Posts: Design / Development
Five Fundamental Website Design Principles We Think About at Evo»
There are lots of approaches to website design. Other designers may legitimately find much to disagree with in this short list, or have items to add (please!). But these are…
Evo4 CMS Earns Silver Rating by ThemeGrade»
ThemeGrade is a website that tests and grades WordPress themes for general code compliance and for on-page SEO. Our recently launched theme for professional designers using WordPress as a CMS…
Evo4 CMS WordPress Theme Launched»
We’re really thrilled to announce that we’ve launched Evo4 CMS, a free theme for WordPress that is specifically made for building business websites that include an integrated blog. These are…
Design Challenge: Developing a Grid that Integrates “Traditional Website” Pages with a Blog»
Business websites that include both “traditional website” pages and a blog are becoming more common. It seems that most people want their business web site pages to be in the…
My Favorite WordPress Plugins»
I love plugins that solve a problem or expand my capabilities. The following plugins have earned a place on my standard WordPress implementation list because they do one or both,…
Handling Duplicate Content with the Canonical Tag»
Note: This is a GUEST POST by Edward Kung, owner of Seedin Web Development, a company in Vancouver, British Columbia, which provides complete web development solutions.One of the biggest problems…
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…
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…