If you’re a developer, you’ve probably encountered a situation where you need to style items in a list. Oftentimes, you might be called on to set up a repeating pattern of items in a grid — like mini-profile bios on an About Page, for example. Let’s say you have a grid where each row has […]
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What Web Design Clients Value More Than Anything
What web design clients value seems to be difficult for all web development companies to provide. These things don’t take a lot of effort, but they make a big difference, because they help establish trust. Like we’ve talked about, trust is everything — in life, in business, in all things that matter. Boiled down to […]
Consistent Communication Produces Great Web Projects
We’ve been talking about ways we can have better web projects and deliver better results for our clients. Earlier, we discussed getting all the site content at the onset of the project, because knowing what you have to say and who you’re saying it to dictates the design. Having the content ahead of time also […]
Quality Assurance and Testing are Necessary for Great Websites
Published November 30th, 2015
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Previously, we talked about one way we can improve client projects: Get the site content early as possible. This way, we can tailor the design to focus what we have to say and frame it in a way that amplifies and enhances our messages. The next thing we can do to improve client web project […]
Gathering Website Content Early Produces Successful Projects
Published November 29th, 2015
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To manage successful website projects, the web consultancy must anticipate potential obstacles, and prevent them from appearing. This miniseries is about overcoming some common obstacles. If we can eliminate these common problems, we’ll have more successful projects, our clients will be happier during our projects, and our clients will get better results long-term. Chasing Waterfalls […]
When Chrome Print Preview Differs From DevTools View
This one’s for the web developers in the house. If you’ve ever tried to debug print styles in Chrome, and kept wondering why the print preview looked totally different than what you were seeing in Chrome Developer Tools, you were exactly where I was earlier this week. Turns out the root of your problems may […]
Target Safari 7.1 and 8.0 CSS Styles (OSX Yosemite)
Not long ago, I ran into a strange CSS bug with the newer versions of Safari. As you may know, different web browsers treat CSS style rules differently. Since the dawn of the web, there have always been browser-specific quirks that keep web developers up at night. In this particular case, I was trying to […]
Adding Custom Styles To Google Maps
You may have seen examples of stylized Google Maps before. These Google Maps look different than the default styles that come with Google Maps. There is an example of one of these stylized maps at the bottom of my Contact page. You may be wondering “How do I get my own Google Map to look […]
Code Highlighting via Prism.js
Every once in a while, I share code snippets or development tutorials on the blog. Up until recently, I was using a plugin to handle code highlighting. (That’s where the code blocks have their own fancy code styling.) But then I discovered my plugin was causing a conflict with another part of my site, so […]
What Makes a Design Portfolio Effective?
There’s a malady that’s common in many web design portfolios. They are filled with images of the finished design artifacts, but they don’t elaborate on whether or not they actually solved their client’s problem. In many cases, they don’t even address the reasons why each client was prompted to seek out professional web design in […]