I found an interesting service today and thought I would mention it in a quick rant. For anyone concerned with a user friendly interface (and who isn’t?) this tool is brilliant. And it even has a free service! AttentionWizard Heat maps show where users look most (/look first) on your webpages. This particular service uses [...]
web development
Just Say No To Flash
Flash makes my small business look more professional = Common misconception As a minimalist-loving web developer nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than a small business that “has to have” flash animation on its website. Please! read http://flashsucks.org/ It is a common misconception that small business people have that adding Flash to your website makes [...]
A smart idea and super smart design
Hi there, Just a quick rant about a cool website with a sense style I’d like to imitate. http://www.flippachick.com/ This “chick” has an awesome website design and her portfolio is full of beautifully designed websites too! I’m a frog not a chick and my designs are pretty froggy… For me I am more of an [...]
WordPress and Breadcrumb navigation
Breadcrumb (navigation) Without it Hasel and Gretel and your website visitor will be lost… Luckily, wordpress makes it easy with nifty plugins like this one: WordPress breadcrumb plugin – Breadcrumb navxt
A website on how to be a web designer. interesting.
I found this today. John Onolan is teaching others how to form web design businesses. Interesting. how to start a web design business
WordPress Security
Website security is always on the mind of web developers. I know it is always one of my top concerns. here is a wordpress dev blog post about recent (and age old) ideas on security: keeping wordpress secure
Another video production + web development firm I want to imitate, a trend toward “new media” paradigm
I found this interesting web design and video production firm today. I think I was looking for some info on a gmail modification when I found the site.
Another web developer who lists prices
There are web developers that list prices and many more that do not. I prefer to list all of my prices and that is what I do on eaglelandgrace.com. This San Diego web developer does too. Always interesting to see what others are charging.
Creating sitemaps
Just a quick rant post. Sitemaps are important for Google. If your site is built on wordpress there is a nifty wordpress sitemap plugin. very nifty and useful. If you use another CMS it may have its own add-on for sitemaps. And in other cases there are nifty generators like, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/