Web design

  • Does Your Site Work?

    Does Your Site Work?

    We got back from Spring Break last night, various family members having spent the time in different places, and we decided to have dinner delivered to us.

  • How Good Does Your Website Have to Be?

    How Good Does Your Website Have to Be?

    A local restaurant has finally gotten a website up, and it’s one of the worst websites I’ve ever seen. Its spelling is so creative that — well, it includes words like “propetisioness” and “prok.” The overall quality of the writing is what you would expect of a website using the word “propetisioness.” It has no…

  • Can You Do Without a Homepage?

    Can You Do Without a Homepage?

    I have had some conversations lately about websites without the traditional homepage.

  • Above the Fold

    Above the Fold

    The term “above the fold” initially applied to newspapers, which put their most important stories literally above the literal fold in the paper. This was the part of the paper that would show in a newsstand, the part a reader could most easily read while traveling on a subway, and the part that would be…

  • Math Websites: a Rant

    Math Websites: a Rant

    I don’t usually rant about things, and I don’t usually show you pages that I haven’t written — or at least I’ve written the “after” site when I show you a “before” site. I don’t normally just hold some total stranger’s site up to ridicule.

  • Changes at Your Web Site

    Changes at Your Web Site

    Fresh content at your website encourages visitors, including search engines. People drop by to see what’s new and exciting, robots perk up and think, “Ah, that’s a live site that gets updated — I’d better go check it out!”