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WebClip Icons
Design & Coding At Mac World WebClips were announced for the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to add a bookmark to the home screen that launch Safari to the bookmarked page. By default the application grabs a screenshot of what’s visible in Safari when you create the Web Clip, and some people have resorted to zooming into a logo of the site to get better view of which WebClip is what. But you can also set your own custom WebClip icon to save users ...
Continue readingThe AdSense Game
Design & Coding With most blogs created to make some sort of supplementary income advertising is often the method used to create that revenue stream. Integrating ads into your sites design however is overlooked regularly by bloggers, simply adding the default AdSense units to the sidebar and under every post. Colour and placement of the ad’s as well as how they interact with the rest of your content are key to increasing your conversions. But first, here ...
Continue readingLose the fat.
Design & Coding The number one new years resolution is to lose weight. Weather it be through exercise or eating habits people are trying to slim down, but while focusing on their physical appearance the same desire to “lose the fat” escapes other parts of their lives. One such area is the fat in websites and blogs. Using space well eludes a lot of people when designing websites, often creating visual clutter. Even behind the curtain plugin clutter ...
Continue readingTop Plugins
WordPress Plugins It’s always interesting to see what plugins people decide to use, and decide to use on each project. I’ve used a variety of plugins, probably not as many as some but more then a few. Time and time again I find myself using these. Maintenance Mode: This plugin adds a splash page to your blog letting visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Administrators still get full access to the site while the notice is up allowing you to ...
Continue readingSeasonal CSS
CSS With the changing seasons and the multitude of holidays some also change their sites design to fit. From winter and summer themes, too night and day, to Christmas and Valentines. But changing a sites look can be a chore, especially if you’re doing it frequently. But thats where CSS finds a perfect application, changing the entire look of your site with one file is certainly alot easier then the alternative. And now there are ways to have ...
Continue readingWhat do you do for a living?
Personal I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”. People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at comparing you ...
Continue readingFlash Photography
Design & Coding More and more sites are going the way of flash as consumers begin to have access to high speed Internet and more advanced systems. But the majority of sites flocking to flash seem to be portfolios, especially photographers. The argument made for these sites using flash is the desire to create an immersive user experience for visitors through motion and sound, but what are the arguments against using flash? Well, the first and foremost argument ...
Continue readingLogo Development
Design & Coding Here is a step by step on the process I use to create a logo for a client, so that you can see what goes into the creative process. For this client I needed to create a logo to get a better feel for how exactly I wanted to present the website. The original logo was replaced by the logo I created in the development of the website with a cleaner style. However the client retained the old logo in the end. One of the things I did when I first ...
Continue readingWordPress and Windows.
WordPress Recently my hosting provider Platinum-Hosting moved to a Windows based server environment. They did this for a variety of reasons, including cost and marketability (Smaller market but more specialized), but inevitably their current clients (ie. Me) ran into issues with .htaccess. Rather then moving to a new host, because I’m a partner in Platinum-Hosting and get free service, I needed to find a way to make redirects or “pretty ...
Continue readingLearning CSS
CSS I was over at a friends place the other day helping her with some web work and I wasn’t at all surprised to find out that they don’t teach designers how to code html or CSS in schools. So I put together some info for her to go over to get some basics on CSS that I’m going to share with you. As you may or may not know CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a language that describes the presentation elements of a ...
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