Web Design / Development

Getting Your Business Online Part 2 – Planning

by Special Guest January 31, 2011 Web Design / Development

Welcome to Part 2 of ‘Getting Your Business Online’. As I mentioned in Part 1 of ‘Getting Your Business Online’ before Christmas, planning is very important. It will help you to accurately assess what you really need. An old carpentry saying sums it up perfectly. “Measure twice and cut once”. This comprehensive list of questions [...]

Getting Your Business Online

by Special Guest December 15, 2010 Web Design / Development

Welcome to ‘Getting Your Business Online’. Over the coming weeks I will provide helpful (jargon-free) advice that will assist business owners who want to set up a website. It’s no secret that a website is an essential tool for businesses of any size. Why? Here are a few good reasons: A website provides potential and [...]

Tips on Migrating to a New Website

by Special Guest March 22, 2010 Web Design / Development

This article is dedicated to all of our clients who decide to move/change/upgrade their web hosting. It contains information to help them through this difficult and arduous task. As simple as it may sound, there are many important steps that are crucial, miss one and you’re in trouble! For whatever reason you need to migrate, [...]

Everything You Need to Know About URLs – Part 1

by Special Guest November 9, 2009 Web Design / Development

It is amazing how often URLs are overlooked as part of the web design process. It is probably one of the most important aspects of a website as it’s sole purpose is to match a page on the Internet to a location. You would be amazed at how many development meetings I have been in [...]

Is Your Design Working for You?

by Special Guest March 10, 2009 Web Design / Development

“Return on investment is easy to measure. You put money in, you measure money out, divide and prosper” – Seth Godin, an online strategist. What about return on design? We hope that the money time and creativity gone into our designs yields an investment for our business. It is easy to spend allot of money [...]

Meet the Guy Who Draws the Funky Google Logos

by Special Guest March 10, 2008 Web Design / Development

Have you ever wondered who does all the drawings for the ever-changing Google doodles on their logo? See him in action in this video marketing promo for their Doodle 4 Google competition.

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta – Woot!

by Irene Lee December 4, 2007 Web Design / Development

As a designer and SEO, I love Firefox. I can assure you that anyone who makes the switch to it will love it too. It’s just BETTER than other web browsers on so many levels, not the least of which is it’s ability to render xhtml and css by the book instead of interpreting the [...]

A Search Engine just for Web Designers

by Irene Lee November 18, 2007 Web Design / Development

Thanks to Google’s Custom Search Engines you can now come across a search engine dedicated to almost any niche. One such gem is Sparkl which is a search engine dedicated to all things web design. Since the search engine is “powered by Google” (as a lot of things are these days), you may ask what [...]

International PHP Professionals Directory Launched

by Joshua Hay November 14, 2007 Web Design / Development

Manuel Lemos of PHPClasses.org (one of my favourite resources on the web) has recently released his latest project – an international directory of PHP programmers for hire. The directory is a free service but has interesting benefits for premium subscribers.