It seems that minimalism is never going to go out of style. Latest exhibit: Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More. A long tutorial on what exactly it is that makes a site design minimalist, and some excellent examples at the bottom. One thing that we notice is that designers often spoil the effect of [...]

We cheer when we see posts championing underdog technology, like this one on Why Designers Should Ditch The Mouse And Use A Tablet. Now, true, tablets aren’t exactly “underdog,” but they could stand to gain more mind share than they have, particularly with designers who started out in the ’90s. The difference with a tablet [...]

One trick to SEO is that you have to have your own original content – and then get credit for it! It can really bum you out when you slaved over your site’s content, only to see a higher-ranking site scrape it and use it to appear in search results ahead of you! While the [...]

Some clients, upon encountering Linux website hosting, tend to remark that they’re surprised to see a big company running Linux. Being a Free/Open Source Software system, people get the idea that it’s all done by volunteers. Right away they picture some hippies in sandals and tie-dye shirts, flashing peace signs and saying how they’re going [...]

Get ready for the newest trend: A “*chan” is any image-board ending in the suffix “chan.” The most famous example is 4chan, but there’s a host of *chan boards out there – so many that directories are popping up. Here’s a comprehensive one. (And be warned, many image boards host indecent, NSFW, shocking, or downright [...]

One web marketing strategy often overlooked is the simple quiz. Whether its in an ad or on a site, in Flash or Javascript, a quiz is fun and challenging and brings the clicks from the kind of people who don’t click anything else. Maybe it doesn’t boost your SEO much, but a quiz can help [...]

Any website developer knows the drill: you put up anything requiring a login, and people are usually going to pick the laziest possible password. As documented in Ars Technica’s lament on the failure of the password model, this problem has existed unabated for 30 years. Users are still just as sloppy about password security as [...]

Web designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, does your world seem dominated by e-commerce web pages? Are you stuck in a world of whitespace, neutral colors, politically-correct stock photo imagery, and 3-column layouts? Here, let’s wake up your imagination again! Visit these sites and bask in the fact that the web isn’t all serious business, and doesn’t [...]