design and beyond

5 Critical Questions To Ask BEFORE You Hire a Web Designer Whether you're building a website or a blogsite, the investment in a designer can be fairly significant. It's at this point that many service business owners decide to cut costs and have their 16-year old nephew design their site. This works out well until something breaks (with technology, it's never a question of IF it will break, only WHEN) and your nephew is out of touch because he just started his first... Read Full Story

How to Create a web design that sells ?Fortunately, that part is easy to explain. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to accomplish. Many web designers think of themselves as artists, but they think of this “art” in the wrong way. They think they’re visual artists who create art using the electronic medium of the web. That is not the case. Web designers are more like interactive or audience participation artists. They are more like illusionists and magicians than they are like mimes. This... Read Full Story

Getting customers successfully through your website can sometimes feel like navigating a series of hurdles. It starts with getting them through the home page (or wherever they enter your site) and ends with getting them successfully through your contact page. Unfortunately this final hurdle can be the most dangerous part of the race! Your contact page is the place where your visitors get the chance to interact with you and leave some personal info - maybe to request availability on a vacation... Read Full Story

If you want to know which CSS3 selectors will work with your browser there is a quick way to test it. CSS3.info has created a page which runs the test and all you have to do is point your browser to http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/test.html and the test automatically runs. Read Full Story

Mobile web use is reaching critical mass, according to technologyexpert. What does this mean for you as a website owner? It means that more of your visitors will be browsing your site on mobile devices such as BlackBerrys and iPhones. The recent release of the new iPhone will increase this number. So what? Good question. How does your website work on an iPhone, or a cellphone? Have you checked? The biggest difference is that these portable devices have a much smaller display than your average... Read Full Story