Year: 2013 Posts

In this series, I will be focusing on CSS3 tips and techniques to enhance certain elements on your website and give users a smooth user experience. Look for future posts about other CSS3 techniques in the upcoming weeks. Understanding transition effects Transitions allow for more graceful and elegant transitions between elements over a specified period […]

During the upcoming weeks, we’ll explain how to use a few CSS3 techniques and tips that can make a big difference in your website. For web designers, keeping up with industry trends not only helps us grow as professionals, but enables our clients to shine by having beautiful and intuitive websites. Becoming familiar with these […]

Social media can be a blessing and a curse. Its blessing is that it can provide inexpensive consumer research because your customer is right there. Plus, it can provide free advertising for a job well done from people “just like us,” not some super model with gorgeous hair who says she uses Brand X shampoo (yeah […]

Once upon an Internet, meta tags were very important tools to help make sure a website was found by search engines. Today, the tags don’t serve much of a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purpose but they still have an important place in website strategy. When your site is found in a search engine, the meta […]

Capline, meanline, baseline, beardline. X-height, ascender, decender. Kerning, leading, font size, set width. When it comes to typography, there are a lot of technical terms to learn to become an expert, but you don’t have to know every last detail to talk intelligently about type and make decisions about what type to use and how […]