May 30th, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Brand Strategy Development, Trademark Development, Unique Promise of Leadership
If you are a consumer, or a marketer, or a CEO of a company looking for branding, you should be interested in logos. Logos are the centerpiece of a company’s brand image and can tell you a lot about the company. The quality of a logo can tell the consumer how much their image (and […]
May 30th, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Brand Strategy Development, Website Development
Douglas Bowman, of Stopdesign, has accepted a job offer at Google as the Visual Design Lead. Does this mean Google will finally have not only useful web applications, but visually pleasing ones as well? It seems like a foot in the right direction to me.
Link: Google’s new lead designer
May 30th, 2006
Categories: Web Analytics
Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the […]
May 27th, 2006
Categories: Domain Management
So you have a beautiful website complete and you have no idea what to name it. You have tried to think and think over and over, yet nothing seems good enough and every name that you do like is taken by some other website that probably doesn’t even deserve it. I know how painful giving […]
May 22nd, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Website Development
Many people, both friends and clients, have asked me how I make a web page. Well, the process is twofold.
The first half (or often more than half) is the design. It all starts with an idea. You have to have some inspiration, or some goal in mind. It helps to know what content you’re going […]
May 22nd, 2006
Categories: Website Development
Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3 such as rounded corners, text effects and background sizing. you should be able to see most of these effects in Firefox 1.5 and up. Sorry IE6 users, you'll just have to hope Microsoft gets CSS right in IE7.
Link: CSS3 Preview
May 16th, 2006
Categories: Art Direction, Website Development
Yet another top 50 site that is converting to CSS. Yahoo! even goes so far as to include some features that won't render in IE6. They must be seeing the same increase in Mozilla/Firefox browser traffic we see on our sites. Congrats to Yahoo!
Link: New yahoo homepage is pure CSS
May 2nd, 2006
Categories: Website Development
A simple 6 step process that allows designers and developers to run IE7 without having to give up the ubiquitous IE6.01 in the process.
Link: Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It