In honor of April 9, 2008, as CSS Naked Day, my blog is going naked. I discussed this a few days ago with details on how to strip naked your blog if you would like to join in the celebrations.
By going naked, my blog stands with thousands of others who recognize and honor the hard [...]
Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008, hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked.
This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and [...]
January 7, 2008 – 4:48 am
Are you ready for the changes in web page design that will come with the new version of Cascading Stylesheets known as CSS3?
In A Refreshed Design for 2008 by Don’t Trust This Guy, I found a glimpse of some of the new CSS3 features and possibilities including multiple background images and CSS drop shadows.
One [...]
December 18, 2007 – 4:13 am
It’s almost time for my annual Things I Want Gone from the Web post.
I had quite a list last year, and I’ve been collecting whines, rants, and nags over the past year, but this year, I want to know what you want gone from the web.
Let’s make this a community whine, rant, and nag.
So [...]
November 16, 2007 – 4:01 am
They say that history and fashion repeats itself, and it’s true. Cleaning up and decluttering your blog is back as a new trend, according to Jason Kaneshiro on the Blog Herald in Getting Back To Basics: Blog Decluttering:
When Web 2.0 first began with Google and Craigslist, one of the “innovations” was simplicity itself - empty, [...]
September 29, 2007 – 5:18 am
Have you looked lately at the average WordPress Theme footer? That little bit of color and text at the bottom of a WordPress Theme? Lately, it seems that the only time it gets any attention is when people are looking for design credit, embedded links and ads, and other nasties.
Sometimes I think the web designer [...]
September 28, 2007 – 5:58 pm
While working on the CSS design for this site, I wanted two things:
A site design that meet web accessibility standards as much as possible.
A header design that was interesting, original, and clickable.
The accessible part was easy. The Sandbox WordPress Theme, which allows WordPress.com users to customize their blog Theme, puts the blog title into an [...]
September 11, 2007 – 5:19 am
By Douglas Bell
Now before you start getting any ideas in your head about those baby cell phone web browsers and WML (Wireless Markup Language), just stop right there. This article is talking about the new mobile internet. The new mobile internet doesn’t contain the baby web pages that you may be used to on a [...]
This is a guest post from engtech of Internet Duct Tape.
As a follow up to my post last Thursday, the Sandbox Design competition has completed and all the designs are available for download in one file (7 MB) or can be viewed on the live preview site.
Congratulations to the winners!
SandPress
Moo Point
Prima
Essay
Tiffany Blue
Shades of Gray
Diurnal
Milkia
Oriole
MIX
But don’t [...]
This comes under the “I wish I’d wrote that” heading. LGR Webmaster Blog featured “Bloggers Are Not Webmasters”, a simple look at the difference between a webmaster and a blogger, which goes to show that there is a lot to managing both a website and blog.
In general, it is a good look at the issues [...]
Melissa McAvoy, a web accessibility and usability specialist, shares 8 Tips for Accessible Blogging, a quick list of tips to help you make your blog or website accessible to everyone, including the blind and visually impaired.
A lot of the tips make good sense whether or not you are physically impaired.
2. Always include meaningful alternative [...]
Occasionally when I’m searching the web, I’m looking for timely information such as articles on WordPress 2.1 not WordPress 1.5. Information on the latest version of WordPress would be dated within the past two months or so. Anything before that probably covers early versions of WordPress and wouldn’t apply to the topic I’m seeking.
More [...]
In Does Your Blog Design Matter?, Instigator Blog’s Ben Yoskovitz asks you if your blog design is as important to you as it should be:
The beauty of blogging is that you can always change things, experiment and see what works. This holds true for copywriting, social networking and your blog design. You might start by [...]
In a guest post on ProBlogger, Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home wrote Is Your Blog Template Holding You Back?
In the first few months of blogging, there was SO much to learn. I figured that SEO was one of those battles I would tackle once I was “more established”. But after 9 months or so, [...]
A while ago, a popular blogger, asked me to review his blog design for improvements. Just so you know, I do this for a living, and my review isn’t cheap.
I gave him my review, pointing out the flaws, misalignments between identity and design, and improvements that would not just help his page ranking [...]
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