Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers is best described as a dictionary or encyclopedia of HTML/CSS design patterns that can be applied in multiple contexts as a designer has need of them.Because most patterns are not given context or...
Topics: Book & Software Reviews

I did a bit of research today regarding a way to solicit suggestions from customers the way that Starbucks has done with myStarbucksIdea.com. Though the reviews of that site have been a bit mixed (suggesting that authenticity is lacking), I think most...
Topics: Internet Marketing

I received an email recently from one of the employees at Web Hosting Search notifying me that they’re starting a new web designer directory and wondering if I wanted to be included. This was remarkable for two reasons. First, a real person emailed.
Topics: Signposts

I’m sure you’ve done it. Every designer has. You cleverly assign a background image to a page division (DIV) that contains some more DIV elements you’re going to float right and left to make columns. You float the columns right and...
Topics: CSS Bug Fixes, Signposts

Out of the box, Wordpress is not very optimized for search engines. One very simple technique I’ve used to help remedy this is to create my own version of the title tag. This version looks good in the search engine results pages and is very...
Topics: WordPress