It can keep you up at night, literally. IE 6 is the browser of death and many web designers and developers have spent hours on hacks and work arounds to keep their websites working in this outdated browser. Yeah know it’s bad when Microsoft itself is leading the charge to kill IE 6. They’ve launched …
If you’re going to put together a sweet infographic on design, then I’m going to think it rocks and I’m going to link to it. Colour Lovers did just that on their blog in looking at the colors used by the top 100 web brands. You can view the full infographic here Not suprisingly, …
I’ve long been preaching the team effort of how great web design and great search engine optimization work together, each benefiting the other. I’m of the opinion these days that you can’t have one without the other. SEOmoz posted the same thoughts today looking at 7 Cutting Edge Web Design Trends That Can Actually Improve …
I’m always a fan of web designers and businesses sharing their web design and redesign process with the masses. The latest I ran across to do so was the BBC. The BBC website redesign is coming later this month and they put out a great post on their thinking behind their most dramatic redesign since …
There are a couple of events going on right now, each on a different scale in size and web design. In my opinion, one is a fantastic web design, the other is completely a waste of clicks. The 2010 Winter Olympics Web Design – Gold MedalThe Vancouver 2010 web design is a wonderful mix of …
Now that I have been eliminated from my fantasy football league, I can finally post on the NFL.com web design that I can’t get enough of. Every Sunday I sit down and watch one game on TV and interact with about 5 others to track my fantasy players at any given time via NFL.com. The …
I’m not on Target.com enough to know exactly when it took place, but in jumping on to scout some Christmas gifts today I noticed they finally went wide in the last month or so. Target finally pushed its web design layout out to around 970 pixels wide, from the old school 725 pixels wide (for …
One of my favorite aspects of my profession is when I get to talk, present or interact with a group on web design or Internet marketing. I recently had the fortune of speaking with marketing profesionals of community banks in Minnesota that belong to the ICBM on social media. I enjoy bringing my passion, experiences …
Smashing Magazine posted a great article on 10 Useful Usability Findings & Guidlines and one that I wanted to highlight is that quality web design builds credibility (all of them are worth highlighting though) . While this isn’t a profound statement, it is something that can be overlooked by many businesses and organizations on the …
We are all aware of the real estate and construction decline over the past 2 years and their continued challenges. That said, Five Technology has seen a big boom in our business come from this industry this summer. We’ve created some great websites for real estate brokers, Realtors, home builders, architects, remodelers and other services …
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