T&S SAID WHAT?!
Everything we wrote in September 2008
Stock photography is an excellent resource to designers because we don’t always have the time or outlets to take our own pictures or hire a photographer. When I was just beginning as a designer and visiting these stock photography websites, I could not understand why royalty-free photos were not actually free of charge. I finally [...]
We have clients use all sorts of web hosts, including us, for their websites. But we always recommend they stay away from GoDaddy for hosting, though they’re great for domain names. I just ran across this article about someone’s nightmare dealing with GoDaddy, and it just reinforces what I already thought. Why I Don’t Owe [...]
Sometimes websites look awful. You’ve probably looked at a website and thought the colors were a poor choice. Or maybe you have worked with a web designer and the colors on your site didn’t turn out exactly like you wanted. While it may or may not be the designer’s fault, things are not entirely in [...]
A great way to shortcut some ideas or at least get a design started, is by looking at some custom photoshop brushes. There are thousands, if not more of bushes out there customized in tons of ways. For instance, I found two amazing brush sets from Smashing Magazine that are freebies. Check them out: These [...]
There are basically two ways to get listed in search engines. You can pay to be listed (sort of, I’ll explain in a bit), or you can optimize your website to appear higher in the listings. One good analogy to explain the difference is to look at the websites like books in a bookstore. Paid [...]
There is a way to get elements in IE6 to have a min-height and a min-width. However, both require hacks that isolate IE6 from other browsers. We’ll start with the easy one. Min-height can be achieved in IE6 by using a conditional HTML comment and the height CSS property. It turns out that Microsoft decided [...]
In taking a further look at Fireworks CS4 beta, I have come across some compatibility issues between the previous version and this one. Hopefully this issue will get sorted out as development continues with Fireworks CS4. Recently I was designing a final version of a web site, all pages and content included. Upon reopening the [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, we check our websites in six different browser / operating system combinations. Just the other day, my programmer asked me if we could stop checking in one of Opera. For Internet Explorer 6.0, there’s even an IE Death March website dedicated to telling others they should stop checking their websites in [...]
One of the most difficult and annoying things to set up in a small business is email. There are so many different options that it can be frustrating to even attempt to configure email. What’s the difference between IMAP and POP3 anyways? I’ve seen people just type in their email address and it works. Why [...]
A lot of sweat and tears are poured into our (the designers’) work, mostly because we are forced to pick up the slack from our boss and programmer, who tend to be the laziest of all…just kidding. Granted, there are some websites that aren’t our favorite of the bunch, but I found two that easily [...]