How Losing a Big Client Changed My Career for the Better
There I was, sitting alone in a nearly empty restaurant. I’d just come out of a meeting with a longtime client who informed me that their corporate parent had decided…
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Ready for Launch: Avoiding Chaos
We web designers put a lot of hard work into our projects while keeping a number of goals in mind. For instance, we have to be cognizant of what our…
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Stylemix Themes Releases 4 Industry-Specific WordPress Themes Sponsored
While it’s true that each industry and business has its own challenges and needs, the WordPress theme market hasn’t always recognized this. So often, themes are released with promises of…
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A Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman
If you do a bit of reading about the subjects of WordPress, SEO or content writing, then you’ve very likely to come across some of Maddy Osman’s work. After all,…
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Freelancers: How Much Work Is Too Much?
Success as a freelance web designer is a double-edged sword. While it’s great to be busy and make money, it can also lead to being overwhelmed with work. It’s a…
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Creating Liquid Effects on the Web
Special effects have been used in web design for years (Flash, anyone?). But today’s technology affords designers better ways to integrate them into our projects. Between CSS3, a host of…
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Staying in Touch with What Users Want
As web designers, we build sites for our clients based on our own expertise. And while there are tried-and-true techniques for placing items such as navigation and calls to action,…
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Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites
As software evolves, we can find ourselves having to adapt to new ways of doing things. There’s a learning curve involved that, while frustrating at first, becomes second nature once…
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Code as an Ode to Hackers
Over the last 40 years or so, it seems that society has become fascinated by the art hacking. Of course, the nefarious kind is always of concern when it comes…
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Snippets That Celebrate Old School Tech
One of the more fascinating things that happen to us in adulthood is the emerging feeling of nostalgia. We think about the TV shows we watched, the games we played…
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