T&S Web Design

A couple of days ago Twitter rolled out several new changes that will make branding your Twitter page easier and more fun. Following the lead of major social networks such as Facebook and Google+, Twitter has implemented some great new options that allow for more branding opportunities. Header Images The largest change is the addition [...]

Last week we focused on how to make the headlines on your site pop. Now, what about all of the rest of the text? In many cases, simply Arial or Helvetica can do the trick, but sometimes we have a more specific look-and-feel in mind. Sometimes CSS fails to render a font properly on a [...]

What do you need to know to get a killer job at T&S Web Design? Read on to find out. We recently decided to take a new policy towards filling positions here at T&S: We’re not doing it any more. Other than internships we have in the summer and during the school year, we’re no [...]

Just a note for all you hopefuls who haven’t applied with T&S yet, but were still planning to. If you are applying to be a T&S intern, call 241-1051 and leave a message before 10am on Wednesday, September 9. We are cutting off the applicants at that point. Good luck!

I’m excited to announce that we’re ready to hire new interns for the fall. We’ll be hiring both design and programming interns. There will be either 2 or 3 of each, for a combined 40 hours designers and 40 hours programmers. And these are paid internships, though we’re fine if you get school credit for [...]

A couple years back, Stanford performed a large study to determine how people evaluate a website’s credibility. Take a look below and see different factors influence your website visitors. Percent (of 2,440 comments) Comment Topics (addressing specific credibility issue) 1. 46.1% Design Look 2. 28.5% Information Design/Structure 3. 25.1% Information Focus 4. 15.5% Company Motive [...]

Well, in the very, very early hours of this morning, we launched our new website’s design. It had been a traditional “shoemaker’s children” type problem, where our quality of websites and design in generally has continuously improved over the past year, but our site stayed the same because we were busy work on other people’s [...]

This is February 23, 2009, at the T&S office. We thought it would be fun to record the entire day, but condense it down to a little over a minute, so you can see everything in time-lapsed format.

Fireworks is often overlooked. Many (most) web designers today use Photoshop to design their websites, and a lot of them have never considered or (*gasp) even heard of Fireworks. Adobe Fireworks is made for creating websites. That is what it was built for, and it does it well. Fireworks enables you to rapidly prototype and [...]

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 [...]