Web Advice

What’s wrong with my dancing mailbox graphic?

February 1, 2009

Over time, most web visitors quickly lose fascination with, ummmmm, let’s say the less subtle design elements, particularly flashy stuff like email link animations, spinning letters, and huge hit counters. Few faux pas will draw attention to your Rookie Ranking quicker than in-your-face animations. Tagged: Web Design

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Contracts? I don’t need no stinkin’ contracts!

February 1, 2009

Trust is vital between web designers and clients. However, professionals protect their clients’ interests and their own interests. A clear agreement does both. Tagged: Web Design

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Since I have FrontPage, do I have to learn all that nasty ol’ HTML code?

February 1, 2009

[seialposts] In a word, “Yes.” There is no HTML editor that can do everything you can do with handcoding. While some will disagree with me, I don’t see the WYSIWYG web editors as inherently evil. (WYSIWYG = What You See is What You Get: an optimistic label if ever there was one.) Tagged: Web Design

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Getting those first jobs as a web designer…

February 1, 2009

The short answer? “However you can.” Friends, family, and local small businesses and nonprofits are a good place to start. Once you have a few jobs under your belt and show you do good work, you will begin to get referrals. They’ll be slow at first, but in time they add up. (At this writing, [...]

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Getting started as a Web Design Professional

February 1, 2009

First of all, if you haven’t read my Tips for Do-it-Yourselfers, start there to get some down and dirty advice. Then, take a look a Choosing the Web Designer of Your Dreams, and see if you can picture yourself as the significant other. If that doesn’t dissuade you, here’s a chat about business issues, common [...]

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Look Ma! I made a webpage!

February 1, 2009

So you wanna make your own webpages, huh? Well, sit down Buddy, and let’s talk! To Do or Not to Do? If we’re talking about a personal page, you can skip this article and head straight for amazon.com. Whatever little gem you create will be admired and loved by your friends and family (we hope, anyway), [...]

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