Paul Irish and Johnathan Neal have produced a terrific page for generating rules for border radius, shadow, font-face and more. Nice easy to use interface and a div that changes to display the results.
I love when someone comes up with such a usable piece of code. Thanks guys
Where to start? Simply of course. Web site design should encompass an organization’s essence, professionalism and unique outlook. As a designer/developer I have to marry that expectation with the real-world considerations inherent in publishing information on the web. Since compromise is essential, I need to be very clear about it with the client at the outset. We both need to be flexible and open to different approaches. That isn’t to say that there isn’t structure to the process.
No matter what your business is, you can’t ignore the 400 million people who have access to the Internet and growing everyday! To be a part of that community (potential clients), you need to be on the Internet… your competitors will be.
As every smart business person knows, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. It is difficult to reach decision-makers….if you are approached by that person it is infinitely easier to tell your sales story. The Internet lets potential clients find you… “This is what I do, where I am, and if you are ever in need of my services, this is how to reach me”.
Think of the Yellow Pages. What are your hours? What do you do (or not do)? How can someone contact you? Where are you located? What is today’s special? You can keep your customers informed of every (changing) reason to do business with you on the Internet!
Providing business information to your customers is one of the most important ways to serve them. Allow your customer to find what is in stock at your store, what options are available and how to get them. All this can be done quickly and simply on the Internet!
You won’t get The New York Times to write up your store opening, but you might get them to print your Internet address if you are doing something new and special. Even if you could get the publicity, it wouldn’t do you any good if a potential customer is across the country and could not visit your store…which they can do if you are on the Internet!
Fall/Winter rains are here and I find myself on my couch pecking at my mac book. I find this weather helps to focus my thoughts and free my inner artist. There is a reason the Ireland has born so many great poets… Rain.
The Rain pounds down in front of my house.
This of course means that I’m redesigning my site. My current site is really showing it’s age, I built it about four years ago. Omg how could you leave it that long?! Well, like the auto mechanic I find myself working on other’s site before my own, and consequently I have had no time for my site. To rectify this I am putting a day a week towards this site.
WordPress is a very versatile cms and I’ll be using it as the base and building a theme from scratch. My skills have always been more in the back end so, design from Photoshop is kinda new for me. I’ve been doing a lot of research on this and some considerable navel gazing. I can only hope that it all comes together properly.
Currently I’m working on a site for boomers hot rods. It’s a simple site so far with a couple static pages, but will have a wordpress backend to extend it. I’m working on a theme for them now. Stay tuned for a portfolio page.
