Every browser has it’s own idiosyncrasies. A browser quirk I found in Safari is directly related to pages with a slider located on the page. Specifically, when the slides animate, font weights of various HTML elements somewhere else on the page change when the slides animate. Weird, right? It turns out this is a bug […]
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Webkit Bug Fix: Slider Causes Font Weights To Change On Page
Published July 17th, 2016
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Web Design Discovery Helps Solve Business Problems
The biggest opportunity for most web developers is actually assessing the business problem that needs to be solved. A scenario I keep observing in the web industry is focusing too much on the technology and not enough on the business problem. This scenario plays out in different ways, but usually with newer developers, or fledgling […]
What Makes A Website Design Good?
Let’s face it. Most web design is judged rather subjectively. Oh sure, the new design of your website may win design awards. Or perhaps look exquisite — which is important. But does that make the design great? I’d argue that one thing above all else makes a website design successful. And that’s whether it delivers […]
Trust Is The Key To Great Web Design Projects
Web design and development is a curious industry. A lot of people would say that we deal in design. Or code. Or graphics. Or marketing. These are merely by-products of what we deal in. They are not the products themselves. Web agencies only have a few things that they sell: their relationship with the client, […]
Why I Don’t Bill Hourly On Large Projects
For large projects, I don’t have an hourly rate. In fact, I don’t even worry about measuring increments of time until we get down to smaller things like maintenance agreements, or smaller projects less than a few hours in scope. A rate implies that you’re measuring effort in increments of time, not return on investment. […]
Don’t Use Google Images On Your Website
Where do you get images for your website? If you’re like a sizeable chunk of the population, you might just do a Google Image search and get images from there. But if you’ve been uploading these onto your website, there’s a reason why you stop doing this immediately. The issue has to do with copyright […]
Planning For Client Training
Well-organized web development projects follow sequential stages: discovery & research, design, development, testing, launch. But there’s a step that occurs before a new site launch that deserves it’s own attention — and that’s training. Training clients to use their website is an incredibly important project stage. Here’s why. We could build the most beautiful website […]
Favor The Long Road: Ongoing Client Relationships
If you’re in business in any way, at some point, you’ve had to shop for web design. You’ve had to figure out what criteria you’ll be judging a web development firm on, and then go through your list of candidates. Hopefully, that list is small rather than large. But here’s a question. What happened to […]
HTML: Give Parent Div 100% Height Of Child Floated Elements
Published January 27th, 2016
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Many web designers and front end developers have been stumped by this dilemma before. When you have a parent div with only floated child elements inside, how do you give the parent element the height of the floated child elements? Before we look at the answer, let’s look at why this is a problem in […]
Create A CSS Sticky Footer
What is a sticky footer? And why would you need one? As you may already know, the footer is the area at the bottom of a web page. This area usually contains copyright information, social media and other links, and sometimes contact information. The problem is that occasionally, your site may have pages where the […]