Recent Posts Tagged With 'web design'

• Geocities Is Closing Soon – Other Free Blogs and Websites

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 08:57 in web design, wordpress, blogger, blogspot, free blog, geocities, free websites, weebly

  OK, Geocities is now in its last couple of weeks. Soon it will be no more. Why Yahoo! is closing it is a mystery really, as other companies seem to manage to make a fair bit of business from the free sites. Here is a roundup of places you can go to g...

• What Is A Playful, Engaging, Persuasive Web Site?

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 12:15 in web design, minimalist web design, playful websites, preofessional web design

  An interesting discussion has been kicked off by Kim over at Cre8asiteforums.com – what types of website should be emotionally engaging, which should be minimalist, clean, “professional”? And what is meant by “professional sty...

• How To Succeed Online Rule 1: Do Not Give Up

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 04:07 in web design, SEO, making money online, advice, web business, do not give up

  I was just reviewing some old contributed articles on one of my sites, and noticed that the URL provided by one author was no longer active (just a domain holding page). This surprised me, as the author produced some good work. The author in question...

• Web HTML Font Families

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 10:57 in web design, fonts, mac fonts, windows fonts, font families, web fonts

  Sometimes the easiest way to make a quick and dramatic change to a website is to change the font. There are several popular font families that work well together to keep the appearance of your website the same across a range of different operating sy...

• Color Charts and Wheels to Match HTML Colors

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 04:09 in web design, colors, web colors, html colors, color charts, color comparison, color tables

  There are a lot of color tables, color charts and color wheels online these days, however, many are just a bit naff. But this one I found today is actually pretty good. It is from Colorschemedesigner.com and allows you to enter your chosen color as a...

• How to Add Widget Areas to Your Wordpress Theme

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 17:50 in web design, wordpress, widgets, how to add widgets to wordpress, post widget

  Just found this fantastic tutorial on adding widget areas to any Wordpress theme. I successfully set up a new widget area below the content of my posts on another blog I write for in about 5 minutes. Step 1. In the index.php file in your theme direct...

• The Easiest Way to Test Websites in Multiple Browsers

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 05:40 in web design, windows, Linux, ubuntu, testing, solaris, vm, browsers, red hat, virtual machine, linux how to

  I have recently been experimenting more with Linux (Ubuntu distribution) and have recently discovered the power of running Virtual Machines. I started investigating after it was suggested that the safest way to run Windows was inside a Virtual Machin...

• Website Logo Competition - Health and Fitness Theme - MotleyHealth.com

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 18:16 in web design, free advertising, logo competition, brand competition, fitness logo, health logo, strength logo, weight loss logo

  We are proud to announce that we have been chosen the host the MotleyHealth.com logo competition. MotleyHealth.com has decided that it is time to upgrade their current logo, and have decided to search for a new logo by way of a competition. The logo ...

• How To Test a Website Before Updating Name Server Details

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 15:15 in web design, search engine optimisation, android, hosts file, name servers, web administration, linux hosts file, test domain, windows hosts

  If you are moving a site to a new server, or building a site for a client, and wish to test it before updating the name servers, then this task is very simple to do, especially if you have a Linux PC. All you need to do is add a line in the etc/hosts...