Yes, it is that time of year again, time for SXSW Interactive and the 2009 Weblog Awards! The Bloggies are the web's longest-running non-profit, reader voted blog awards. The votes are in and the Weblog Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, March 16th at 12:30pm (Central Time, GMT-5) at the SXSW T...

The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic desi...

Web designer portfolio is a perfect way to showcase web designer works. It’s always of utmost importance. Poor web designer portfolios will hardly attract a lot of potential clients. I doubt either you or me will order design from a person whose portfolio doesn’t look professional enough; or in ...

Web designer portfolio is a perfect way to showcase web designer works. It’s always of utmost importance. Poor web designer portfolios will hardly attract a lot of potential clients. I doubt either you or me will order design from a person whose portfolio doesn’t look professional enough; or in ...

There is a lot of information about how a Web Design and Development company will handle a project once it is awarded, but I thought it would be a good idea to write a brief overview of the entire process from an organizational perspective. 1. Identify your Goals While every organization handles thi...

One of the many exciting features of CSS 3 is the ability to create columnar text. In this article I will show you a way to fake two column text with a little Javascript. First off we need to stipulate that this hack will only work with textual information contained in HTML paragraph tags ( ). To us...

I’m one of those designers that likes to sketch out new website layouts with pen and paper. Nothing fancy- I don’t haul out the acrylic paints or anything. My sketches are usually just a bunch of boxes and lines with arrows pointing out different sections of a layout. When I first starte...

Yesterday saw the launch of $2000 Website, an intriguing design shop in the Bay Area that describes itself as a “self-service” design agency, offering to design, code and publish a custom website within a two-week period. Users begin by completing a short online questionnaire to help tea...

When I started my business in 2001, it was a given that I would need a website. Just as I’d need business cards, a telephone, and a computer, I’d also need a presence on the web to truly be in business. Times have changed — yes, your business still needs to be on the web, but incre...

To my recollection, I’ve never made mention on this blog of a specific Website as an example of being truly great. While no one has elected me as the design judge of the Internet, nor will any great people likely take notice of this post, I am compelled to call out a Website that I’ve be...