T&S Web Design

This week, let’s talk about saving time with a website. After all, time is money, so saving yourself a few minutes here and a few minutes there will end up saving (and making) you money as well. One of the most common ways to save time is to simply answer the most common questions on [...]

Ultimately, in any project, we want the client to receive a website that not only works, but is easy to navigate and visually pleasing to them. So let’s say we did our research and cranked out the best design ever made, if the client doesn’t like it, then tons of time has been wasted and [...]

While it’s certainly important that your website looks good, the real goal for your business’s website should be for it to benefit you financially. There are three main ways this can be done. Save time Save money Make money Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be writing about each of these categories, and [...]

I started designing my junior year of high school and was only introduced to print material at the time. The pain of matching of colors, printing costs, margins, sizing, and everything that printing entails was never a big deal because I had nothing to compare it to. Five years of naivety finally ended when I [...]

I started T&S about five years ago now. For those first four years or so, I did the majority of the design work. My background, if you don’t know, is programming. Although I did well on design compared to many other programmers, I was still no designer. A little over a year ago, I hired [...]

There are several tools that I don’t think I could do web development without. They give me the power to find out valuable information about the pages I’m viewing. They even let me edit the HTML and CSS directly, without having to refresh the browser window! I can debug JavaScript, test the page with different [...]

Want to link to your Facebook profile on your website? It’s not quite as easy as you might think. Unfortunately, Facebook does not provide a built-in way to link directly to your profile. Google to the rescue… One of the features you might not already know about on Google is the ability to search specific [...]

If you were to look for stock images, these four design elements will undoubtedly show up in your results. These may add a cool effect, but I think designers should be careful and use them in moderation. 1. Sun Rays It’s hard to find any poster, etc. without a few sun rays in the background. [...]

Screen captures are extremely helpful in our line of work. We test websites extensively in mutliple browsers and operating systems, but sometimes a problem will still show up on a client’s computer that we don’t see. In those cases, a screen shot is invaluable. Screen captures are relatively easy in both Windows and Mac’s OS [...]