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Portfolio Feature: Spoon Graphics

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Today, I’d like to feature a portfolio of a talented designer, Chris Spooner of SpoonGraphics.co.uk. I’ve featured his work before in a few of by previous posts but here I’d like to draw attention to his portfolio. His skills range from logo design to print, to web design. One of the jobs he did is [...]

25 Popular 404 Error Pages

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

As I was browsing around collecting the screen shots for this post I was surprised to see how many popular websites have neglected to optimize their 404 error pages. While there are not very many people that get lost on the net and end up on a page that does not exist, there are still [...]

Google is Biggest “Disabled” Internet User

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Image credit: Google Bot by Tyler Jordan When thinking about website accessibility, what comes to mind is, how many blind, hearing impaired or otherwise disabled people are really going to visit my site? According to World Health Organization (Global Data On Visual Imparement For 2002), there are over 161 million visually impaired people in the [...]

Search Market Share 2008 Chart

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Interesting to see how Google dominates the search industry and while it’s competition is headed towards doom, Google keeps inching it’s way to the top. I wonder what will happen within the next 5 years. Looks to me like Microsoft will maybe (well, I think it should anyway) focus it’s resources on it’s software that [...]

3 Practical Ways To Efficient CSS

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Most probably already know this but it doesn’t hurt to remind and have it down on “paper”. When writing CSS code and as you adjust things to make it all look good in the browser your CSS file becomes huge with extra lines of unneeded code that can be purged to make the size of the [...]

Practical Use Of Photoshop Lighting Effects

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

These ads look awesome, the lighting effects really make them pop, make them exciting to look at. Makes me want to go an get me PS3 ;). After you check out these PS3 ads, I have a list of some Photoshop lighting effects tutorials that will help you create similar effects… make sure to take [...]

Drag And Drop With JavaScript & CSS

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

It can be used for various purposes but one is sorting things in a list, like a menu. Even WordPress Uses this function in the admin side to order the widgets on the sidebar. Drag and drop lists have many uses and I’ve never made one before so I am goign to follow the tutorial [...]

Camtasia Studio Review

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Camtasia Studio is a presentation software program that allows you to capture, edit, and share multimedia presentations. This software program can be used for creating staff training presentations or for online marketing presentations. Its easy to use interface allows people of all video editing skill levels to put together high quality videos that may be [...]

10 More Great Website Navigation Ideas

Monday, January 5th, 2009

There are lots of lists of 25 of this and 50 of that and I was going to go ahead and stuff the stack of great navigation ideas I’ve found into a list of my own, but after thinking about it I decided that making a few posts of smaller more comprehendible lists of about 10 will [...]