Having a sharp and user friendly website is a must in today’s marketplace. In order to gain recognition for your brand or to be taken seriously as a business, requires a great web presence. For out of town visitors, having a website that showcases your business and its services is a must. Just the other day, we were looking for a specific service in our hometown, and without knowing it, we started narrowing down our choices by 1) Did the company have a website, and 2) Was the website user friendly, provide the information we needed, and was it well designed. As we thought about this, we realized that we were conducting a usability test against ourselves. What do people want to see when they search for a business on the web? They want to see a well designed and informative website, one that is very user friendly, and allows them to find the information they need as quickly as possible. Let’s face it, without a web presence in today’s market place, business will become slower, maybe even non-existent.
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exposing your website…how?
27Aug08Clean CSS Code
19Aug08You are probably aware that we love to read the design blog, Smashing Magazine. They had another great post today on the 7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS code. In this article, they talk about the principles you need to consider when writing your CSS to help keep it optimized and clean. Optimization includes a lot of things, not just minimizing the file size of all of your files, it is also about have organized code, fast and efficient code, and free from unnecessary and irrelevant comments. To continue reading about the 7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS code click here.
Apple’s new ads
19Aug08Apple recently posted some new ads on their website and we are loving them! Our favorite of the new ones that have been posted is the “Pizza Box“, which can be seen here. The three new ads are:
Check these out when you get a chance. You will find out that Mac is now the most popular notebook among college students!
Best Buy to sell iPhone3G?
13Aug08According to AppleInsider.com and other sources (Engadget), Best Buy may be close to offering the Cupertino-based Apple’s newest iPhone model, the iPhone3G, as early as next month.
Width of the fixed layout
30Jul08Smashing Magazine
had a recent blog design survey that was sent out to web designers all over the place. One of the main questions that I wanted to see the feedback on, was a question about fixed layout widths in web design.
Google launched another version of their online maps program. Google Maps Walking Directions is a great new tool for city goers who are trying to save money on gas, parking, or just want to get out an get some exercise.
Sitepoint.com had a great article about it today and you can learn more on their website here.
Wordpress has launched their own iPhone application that allows you to edit your blog on the go from your iPhone.
For more information go to http://iphone.wordpress.org.
Wordpress 2.6 Released
16Jul08More information can be found here
As of 7:30 AM CST the iPhone 2.0 software update is now officially out!
wine library tv
10Jul08Gary Vaynerchuk and Wine Library TV are getting close to their 500th episode. We love watching and hearing what Gary has to say about different wines that the likes…but more importantly, we like how their video blog is produced and how their site is structured.
