Web design

  • As Simple as Possible

    As Simple as Possible

    Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

  • Get Real with Usability

    Get Real with Usability

    Some of you know that I teach Freshman Comp in my spare time. I think it’s worth doing; as we work more with people in different places around the world, being able to communicate in writing becomes even more important.

  • Mimicking Your Competitors

    Mimicking Your Competitors

    Many industries have a certain look. Store of the Community, whose screen shot you see at right, does some special things, but some of the things they do may be familiar to you: giant inflatables, mascots like Chester the Cheetah, and costumed staff members running events like rodeo trivia quizzes. It’s “retailtainment,” the stuff that…

  • New Year Website Checkup: Mechanics

    New Year Website Checkup: Mechanics

    We’re working on a redesign of a local nonprofit agency’s website. The agency needed an update for the sake of more current content and a fresh look, but the main reason they just had to have an update was that their old site was obsolete from the point of view of the technology. This naturally…

  • New Year Website Checkup: Platform

    New Year Website Checkup: Platform

    The traffic at your website is probably at its lowest point of the year between Christmas and New Year, so this is an excellent time to give your website a check up. Before you look at the things you might need to change for the sake of your visitors and your site’s performance, though, think…

  • The Quest for a Logo

    The Quest for a Logo

    We’ve been planning some multimedia updates for Customer Dynamics, a tech company providing custom CRM installations for SMB clients in the West. At right you can see the new logo we made for them, and in the post below we run through the process.