I’ve noted often how the WWW is a vast and changeable sea of innovation and change. Bootstrap (a collaborative effort built at Twitter) is one of the latest development options in our WWW sea, and was created to allow web designers to quickly build professional web layouts that utilize the latest in development practices. What…
Many businesses use survey managers to get the opinions of their users on a variety of subjects. In many cases the simplest and best option is to use an online survey manager since they are designed to be easy to use, have good assessment tools, and do to familiarity with the common ones most people…
One of the aspects of graphic design which I find especially fun is the creation of quality collages. In the past I would create collages for static headers, yet with the influence of jQuery the static header is not nearly as common as it once was. Here is an example of a collage I created…
In recent design practice the rage is to use jQuery sliders for the home page header which is the portion at the top of the page typically placed below the navigation and logo yet above the primary text content. The reason for sliders is that they offer visual engagement and animation which helps to attract…
I wrote not long back about some recent changes with our hosting account control panel “cPanel”. If you are unfamiliar with cPanel you can view a live demo here: View cPanel Demo User ID: x3demob | Password: x3demob In this post I wanted to feature some additional areas that many clients ask about. Password Protect…
When designing a web site one of the first things to consider is the colors needed for the web site. If you know a little about color theory you already know that colors need to work in harmony with each-other, which in short means that they need to be balanced and look good together. To…
If you are a new web designer you may have been faced with the question of how to create attractive buttons for inclusion on web pages? Since most web designers are primarily coders, this can be a challenge, even for those who do have a bit of understanding on how to edit photos effectively. If…
A question I am often asked is where to get stock photos? When looking for photos and images there are a lot of stock photo sources available. Some of these are free, but as one would expect the free options will generally have less available, be of inferior quality, require a copyright notice applied to…
For those of you who use us for hosting, or use cPanel with another provider, you have may have noticed some changes. Not long back cPanel upgraded to version 11.34, and with this came a variety of enhancements. If you are not familiar with cPanel it allows website owners can easily manage their email accounts,…
Well not too long back I wrote about SOAPA, which was an attempt of some legislators to regulate the Internet. In short, it would have allowed companies to sue for copyright infringement any time a royalty wasn’t paid to an artists. For example, if you created a YouTube video of your child dancing and had a…