There are many aspects of creating a website design. Web designers often have to play multiple roles and be very knowledgeable about building effective and usable site layouts. Most of the lessons you’ll learn in web design comes from work experience; learning is an iterative process and there is no better way to gain knowledge [...]

A few months ago there was a stir about another search engine but to be honest the name escapes me at the moment. Now we’ve got Bing, the so called answer to our search problems. I’m not buying it, and to add an additional slap in the face the commercials are so annoying I’ve found [...]

This Saturday morning I’ll be attending the LaidOffCamp & FreelanceCamp down in Miami at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Registration is free and it looks like a great opportunity to connect with other creatives, etc. Who should go?: Looking for creative ways to supplement your income or change your career Running your own business a [...]

When I began freelancing I thought it was important to make my fledgling business appear bigger and more established than it really was. My website used phrases like “our designers” and “our programmers” in an effort to make a one-man show look like a full team of professionals. No matter what a potential client wanted [...]

Some of us tend to skip the wireframe stage of website development for a few reasons such as time constraints, client budget constraints yes even pure laziness. The truth of the matter is that wireframing is an extremely important step in the planning process of a website. Skimping here only makes it more difficult down [...]

Another great post from Freelance Switch…. If you’ve devoted weeks or even months to a major project, you want to end it right. For some freelancers, a good end to a big project is an equally large check — but there are few extra steps you can take to use the last days of a [...]

Quickly and easily install this plug-in to track and monitor your wordpress traffic, find out what your most popular blogs and pages are, etc. It’s fantastic and really easy to set up. You’ll need to create a free WordPress Account and then hook it up through the plugin with the necessary information. Once it’s installed [...]

The latest statistics indicate that 90% of traffic landing on web sites originated with a Google search. That’s a pretty impressive figure for Google but it also says a lot about how people find websites. many people use Google as a way to find a site when they may not know its exact location on [...]

Many times I’ve been handed designs to look over only to cringe or make a vain attempt to shield my eyes from the hideousness before me. Sometimes it’s just plain bad design but sometimes it’s more than that. Color choices have a profound effect on your emotional response that you probably weren’t even aware of. [...]

First off I should explain what a Captcha is. Captcha is a method of fooling the spam bots so they won’t fill out forms, gain access to sensitive locations of a site, etc. by using a visual image instead of a password or readable text access point. For a time, this worked wonderfully… http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2009/04/is-captcha-still-effective-slowly-but-surely-the-answer-is-no/

PHP was at one time known as “Personal Home Page” but evolved into something so much more powerful than just that. http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/02/what-is-php-and-why-should-you-use-it/

Many buzz words fly around the web these days and one of the most recent ones I’ve come across is above/below the fold. So, what’s that supposed to mean? http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/05/above-the-fold/