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Friday Focus 07/31/09: Brilliant Lighting

Digitally recreating light is a pretty challenging task, and this week we’re going to look at websites that manage to use this effect brilliantly.

Five Ways to Fancy up your Footer

Improve your website or blog footer section with these quick tips.

Better forms

Tips on improving your forms with CSS and other methods.

How to Practice Effectively to Improve Your Skills

In my last post, I talked about how deliberate practice is the key to improving your skills. Today we’ll look at the characteristics of this type of practice and how to apply it to web work.

Three Free Lifesaving Programs

When my Macbook died yesterday, these three freeware programs got me back in business.

What Drives Your Website?

Three questions to ask yourself when creating a new website.

How to Network With Popular Bloggers

In my last post, I talked about the effectiveness of networking with popular bloggers. Here are some practical ways to actually do that.

Here is a Method That is Helping Web Designers Get More Clients

Looking for more clients for your web design business? Then check out this effective marketing tactic.

3 Reasons Why Web Designers and Developers Should Blog

I know many web designers and developers blog. But for those who don’t, here are couple reasons why you should.

The Types of Content in Web Design and Development That Send Traffic

What types of content do well in the web design and development arena? I did a little research to find out.

Web Design with Moleskine

I’m one of those designers that likes to sketch out new website layouts with pen and paper. Nothing fancy- I don’t haul out the acrylic paints or anything. My sketches are usually just a bunch of boxes and lines with arrows pointing out different sections of a layout. When I first started, I did these [...]

Friday Focus 12/26/08: Attention-Grabbing Headers

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebration! This Friday we’re going to look at whimsical, chaotic, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink headers that will certainly grab your attention.