Craigslist; work for free web design wanted!
If you're in web design, I know you've seen Craigslist wanted ads requesting web design "interns" and "free = build your portfolio"! Well, here's a very entertaining video showing the response that would most likely be given in a real world, face to face meeting along those lines. Enjoy!
Akismet Cuts Back on Spam!
If you have a Wordpress blog, and you're getting hammered by spambot comments, install Akismet today! I was getting hit by an annoying Russian spammer, who on Christmas day posted twenty five or so spam posts on my blog, with links to all sorts of ungodly websites. So, I decided that the time ...
When is the right time to design a website?
If you're thinking about designing a website, you should probably ask yourself "when is the time right for my website to be designed?" As a web designer, part of my job is to help my clients figure that out. So, lets discuss just what people should think about before starting to setup a ...
NexGen Gallery Wordpress Image Galleries
One of the most difficult tasks for me in my web design career happens to be explaining website maintenance to my clients. Wordpress content management systems, with their user friendly back end admin panel made reduced the learning curve, and thus the amount of explaination required on my part. The exception was the ...
Social Networking - Use It!
With the wealth of social network users on the internet at any given moment, I think you'd be foolish not too take advantage of this free resource for traffic and leads. Take, for example, the banner for a Facebook widget. This will place Facebook status updates at the top of all your friends ...
Are You Paying $5 or Less for Web Hosting?
Have you thought about how much you're paying for your web hosting lately? Is it more than $10 a month? Or maybe $20? If either is the case, you're getting ripped off! Right now, most reliable Web Hosting companies are charging $5 or less per month at the same service ...
Search is King
So, you've set up your site and there it sits. An empty truck stop on the information super highway. You might have good content, but the search engines are taking too long to index it and you'd really like to start making sales / generating leads / seeing you analytics hits count rise. ...
Latest Wordpress Project is Complete
This weekend my clients and I decided the time was right to live on their new Wordpress based website at Avenues of Peace! This project was one of constant evolution, with more sections being added to the site as it progressed. The end result was one of the more versatile Wordpress content management ...
Expanding Java Script Navigation / Menus
Over the past few days I've had to set up a new, expanding navigation bar for a web client who wanted their menu to expand only when the top level categories were clicked by site visitors. At first I thought about looking into a flash generator program? But, then I decided to look ...
Fading Image Slide Show
In my experience, most image slide shows don't fade in and out from one image to the next. Usually they just snap from one image to the next which isn't a problem, but for something a little more elegant and flowing a fading image slide show is what I prefer. And unless ...
