Web design

  • Redesign: A Theater Company

    Redesign: A Theater Company

    We’re getting the finishing touches completed for a new website for the Pushcart Players, a theater troupe specializing in family audiences and school performances. You can see their current website below at right, and the new one at left. The immediate impression is of course very different. Pushcart’s current site has been around for a…

  • Make Your Company Stand Out

    Make Your Company Stand Out

    Here you can see a screenshot from a new website we’ve just launched. The site came with some interesting challenges. This site belongs to a medical supply company serving government agencies, particularly Veterans Administration hospitals.

  • Color of the Year 2013, Revised

    Color of the Year 2013, Revised

    We announced that Monaco Blue was Color of the Year 2013 back when, well, everyone else was announcing that. However, it appears that Monaco Blue was only a “top color.” The Color of the Year for 2013 is actually Emerald.

  • Should Your Business Site Have Ads?

    Should Your Business Site Have Ads?

    We’re currently building a website which offers a service to professionals. The site owner is wondering about having ads on his site. Should he do it, and if so, when and how should he put ads on his website?

  • Iterations vs. Options

    Iterations vs. Options

    Iterations are successive changes to one idea. Options are choices among multiple ideas. Which is a better way of creating a design? Some web firms create several options for you and you choose one. Often, this is more a matter of picking among pre-made templates than of having three new creations, but that depends on…

  • Page Size Growth: What It Means

    Page Size Growth: What It Means

    It has recently been reported that the average web page size has tripled since 2008 — and perhaps more strikingly, that the average web page’s size has increased by 20% in the past six months.