Web design

One of the controversies that tends to arise during the building of a website is when to test it — and indeed, when to let anyone look at it.

How long your web page is doesn’t really depend on how many words you have on it, as you might think.

When we need design work done, we have a designer do it. Sometimes, though, there are small jobs that you want done quickly. Changing colors in an image is one that you can do yourself. For example, while working on a recent website, we used the image at left to illustrate a page. It looked…

Josepha and I have been examining websites recently in the course of developing strategic recommendations for the Quarter 1 analytics reports. She has several times said, “It’s not an attractive website,” and I’ve sort of thought, well, yeah, okay, so what?

In truth, the only new thing I learned at NWAGiveCamp, the charity web site and app build-off that took place in Bentonville over the weekend, is that Ruby on Rails tells you exactly where you’ve made an error. I feel that this information won’t be very useful to my readers, though, so I will instead…

We’ve had a request for a splash page on a website we’re building. Splash pages were a special web page with an animation or a picture and an “enter” button that would load up quickly and amuse visitors while the actual site loaded over the phone lines — Yes, we have stepped into our time…