The Universal Principles and the Business of Web Design
It has been a while since I’ve posted on this subject - I’ve been busy working on upgrading the clarity of my videos. You should see the results of that work soon enough. What are the ‘Universal Principles’ … and how do they apply to the business of web design? These are some of the principles that [...]
Continue reading...4. June 2009
How To Properly Use Web 2.0
Using Web 2.0 for the Right Reasons The term, Web 2.0, has become so common that it’s now almost one of those labels that everyone knows, but nobody knows the definition of. In fact, clients often ask me—with complete seriousness—if I can provide “Web 2.0 ” for their site. My reply is typically along the lines [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2009
The Journey of a Thousand Miles
There’s a pretty tired cliché used all the time that goes something like this: The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Like all clichés it’s true while at the same time a bit trivial. In the case of building websites, this particular cliché can help teach one of the most important lessons to learn. Let me try to put it in terms of what we do: it’s not how you end a project that gives you success as a web designer/developer; it’s how you begin it.
Continue reading...22. May 2009
iPhoto ‘09 Review
iPhoto ‘09 Review Part of Apple’s “iLife” package, and bundled with every Mac, iPhoto is more photo-management than photo editing. iPhoto’s been around for some years now, but it’s not usually regarded as a powerful editing tool although Apple has improved its editing capabilities in this release. Definitely a winner for those of you who are [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2008
Business of Web Design - Introduction to the course
Hi, I’ve just uploaded the first session/chapter of the audio-book. You can find a written outline of this session in my original post about the Business of Web Design. … I am repeating the announcement here so that subscribers to the RSS feeds will be notified. Anyway, let me know what you think … both the good [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
What are gravatars and why you need them?
What is a gravatar? Let’s take it from the source: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Continue reading...12. June 2008
Comparing blogs, CMS and Wikis
I just published an article on my blog comparing these three different web publishing tools that you have to choose from: Blogs CMS Wikis
Continue reading...5. June 2008
Book Review: Flexible Rails: Flex 3 On Rails
Book review by: Richard Mischook Bottom Line A well written guide to using Ruby on Rails with Adobe Flex to create rich internet applications. My Motivation Recently I was working on one of my pet projects - an application for managing data mapping during the analysis phase of enterprise integration projects. The details of the application are not really [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2008
New Flash CS3 Video tutorials out soon.
I will be releasing a new Flash CS3 video tutorial in the next few days that examines the differences between Actionscript 1,2 and 3. Meanwhile, you can visit our Flash section on killersites.com Stefan
Continue reading...4. June 2008
Ajax Video Tutorials
We will be releasing a new set of Ajax videos very soon. The new videos will deal less with the underlying Javascript constructs; instead we will be looking at some of the popular Ajax frameworks that are out there. Things like: Scriptacoulous Adobe’s Spry framework for Dreamweaver Until the new videos come out, I invite to check out a [...]
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8. June 2009
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