Internet Marketing is similar to traditional marketing, but you don’t have a face right in front of you. I’ve read plenty of books about closing deals, using body language to read your prospect.  These can be useful on many aspects of life but… … right now, you’re facing an opinion without a face.  (and, no… <– smileys do not count…) What to do, when all the knowledge you acquired while learning about the trade is, to say the least, obsolete... Read Full Story

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.” (Deepak Chopra) The Power Behind Successful Web Design, you ask?  Positive Thinking! We know you can achieve more!  We know you’re dreaming of higher incomes, a future for your family and new ways to fulfill your dreams while living the life. We know you prefer the best above the rest and that you won’t stop until you beat... Read Full Story

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Web design still amazes me.  Apparently, I’m alone here. I grew up with loads and loads of sci-fi.  I wasn’t really crazy about flying cars (though they still owe us that…) and space travel as much as I was with virtual realities. The idea of reinventing the world we live in has always obsessed me.  I have always considered that we have LOTS of limitations and our choices narrow our capabilities.  We get what we can, not wha... Read Full Story

Web Design is going to  change. You’ve heard the rumors.  I’ve heard them and I’m feeling suspended between fear and hope.  Is it our nature to fear change?  The unknown is always a corridor with a million doors that lead to new corridors and doors. I didn’t really feel the change between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 because, truth to be told, I wasn’t that crazed about technology.  The Y2K left me waiting for the Collapse of Western Civilization.  Fortunately, nothing ha... Read Full Story

It’s October, my favorite month and I’m trying to infuse all of my web design writings with its vibe.  The weather’s just great (Autumn cooling the streets off, shades of red everywhere), there’s lots of caramel-coated apples and, of course, there are horror movies. I was really looking forward to see a certain flick (it looked just so cheesy… and I’m a fool for zombie movies) and it surprised me how much can be accomplished during the trailers.  I went to ... Read Full Story

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” (Victor Hugo) Web Site Designs deal with limited sensory input.  I think I might be one of the first to say that there is an element of touch that affects navigation.  It’s not exactly tactile, but it affects our motion senses.  The ease to reach buttons on a site, the reaction and the delay after a mouse movement is performed gives a tactile quality to websites.  Think about it: when was the last... Read Full Story

A decent Web Site Design is great.  What about the contents?  Do they matter? I write and research every single day, looking out for topics that attract the attention of people.  Some, including myself, still see the Internet with kind of a “suspension of disbelief” gaze:  Sometimes some of us, who knew 5 1/4-floppy disks and actually started their video-games addiction with the archaic charm of an Atari 2600 console. So, watching how fast the Internet grew up into this fascinatin... Read Full Story

Web designs are the new business cards.  You want to brag about your company?  You better be ready to add an URL address to your personal data.  Is there a company that doesn’t like to have smooth business cards to share and spread the word? Lousy business cards, with Internet-stolen clip art, lame fonts and clashing color schemes.  That’s almost as bad as attending a business meeting with egg and coffee stains all over your tie.  Can you even begin to imagine how embarrassing mig... Read Full Story

Web sites were designed to quickly deliver information.  In the beginning, the format of the content wasn’t as important as the information itself.  People would navigate through endless pages of text that wasn’t that different from a bunch of printed pages.  Since there weren’t as many alternatives as the ones we have now, browsing through these text-based sites was okay.  But people was expecting a lot more from their technologies than shoulder pads, tinfoil attire and ast... Read Full Story

Web design implemented affordable (and, mostly, available)  tools to make the best of whatever little resources the Internet had to offer.  Picture one of these impromptu science projects made with rubber bands, an eraser, two pencils, no time and that’s pretty much what the first web designers had to work with.  On these rudimentary times, everything was a blend of logic, out-of-the-box programming and hope. And then there was Flash.  If you haven’t played Flash games or seen Fla... Read Full Story