JAN 1, 2012: I am very happy to annouce my new partnership with marketing expert Pauline Kalil to form Digital Meaning, a new design and marketing agency in San Francisco. We are working with clients who are serious about their website, emails and ad campaigns, and want to see results. This isn’t old-school shot-in-the-dark type marketing; it’s targeted campaigns that are on brand and designed for your clients. Join me at Digital Meaning and change the way you think marketing should be done.
“What do you do?” And I say, “I’m a web designer.” But, lately I am thinking that title just doesn’t cover it all. There doesn’t seem to be a title for people like me who do a bit of everything.
So, you have an iPad or iPad 2 and you want new backgrounds? I created a Photoshop template so that you can make your own backgrounds and not have to pay for them, or end up on some shady site that lured you there with the pretense of free iPad wallpapers.
To help prepare web design students for real world web design, Colleges and Universities today must offer courses focusing on User Experience and User Interface design. You can have a complete, functional and informative website without Flash, video, and even jQuery, but you cannot do without solid, logical user experience and user interface implemented.
WordPress is an excellent platform to create your website on, but it does have its shortcomings: security, speed, and data backup. With the addition of the following 4 plugins, your WordPress site will be faster, more secure, and have a complete backup copy stored away.
I recently had a client who wanted to allow the user to dynamically add a section to their form. No problem, I thought. Then I noticed that the duplicated section was using the same name, id, and for attributes, which means that the resulting submission would not plug in nicely to the database.
I hear and read “SEO” in every website creative brief sent to me these days, and that is to be expected. But to make it the #1 priority AND the #1 task in updating an existing website is not where the focus should be.
Ever since about Jan 4th, the email inbox has been getting a little more full with each passing day. I’m of the mind that businesses realized they were a little too cautious last year and have really come out swinging in Q1.
