Web design

When we need design work done, we have a designer do it. Sometimes, though, there are small jobs that you want done quickly. Changing colors in an image is one that you can do yourself. For example, while working on a recent website, we used the image at left to illustrate a page. It looked…

Josepha and I have been examining websites recently in the course of developing strategic recommendations for the Quarter 1 analytics reports. She has several times said, “It’s not an attractive website,” and I’ve sort of thought, well, yeah, okay, so what?

In truth, the only new thing I learned at NWAGiveCamp, the charity web site and app build-off that took place in Bentonville over the weekend, is that Ruby on Rails tells you exactly where you’ve made an error. I feel that this information won’t be very useful to my readers, though, so I will instead…

We’ve had a request for a splash page on a website we’re building. Splash pages were a special web page with an animation or a picture and an “enter” button that would load up quickly and amuse visitors while the actual site loaded over the phone lines — Yes, we have stepped into our time…

In general, your website’s navigation is not the place to show off your creativity and ability to think outside the box. I always think it’s like an elevator. You step into the elevator and find a cool slideshow on the wall, or a quilted and beaded interior, or a dropped ceiling with interesting lights and…

I wrote about Planning Websites for Older Users a couple of years ago, and the subject has come up again. At that time, we had identified two areas of primary concern: Contrast level of text People over 55 or so have less ability to read text that doesn’t contrast well with the background. This is…