WordPress 3.0 release adds some lovely features to help run your blog / cms / publishing system – check out this great video on the new WordPress 3.0 features.
Some biscuits are made for dunking, some are made for sinking. This revelation hit me harder than a runaway train about five minutes ago when half a rich-tea became shipwrecked in my cup of coffee.
Air sea rescue mounted a desperate operation in the form of a spoon but the sodden remains of said biscuit are yet to be found. Read More
This weeks web design critique is Render Wave by Reset Studio. A design oozing blinging minimalism – if there is such a thing! Love the angular scrolling portfolio pieces. The subtle shades of blue & grey force a calm emotional response and the angular lines press home a precision finish. Lets Discuss.
If Mohammad can’t go to the mountain, let the mountain come to Mohammad. If your audience is not coming to you, you should go to them. Visit the websites they are visiting, have a presence on the issues they care about and have a voice where they do. Your website marketing plan should include joining and being part of your prospect’s existing communities.
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Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac® and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience. Original Post
Freelance Web Designers sometimes don’t get out much, I admit just last year my typical research technique was to check out the competitors websites and study the sector from the online comforts of Wikipedia. You should still use websites for research but why not include a further myriad of offline bricks and mortar resources in the real world.
Act 1: The Beginning
Good web copy is all about flow. Once you’ve finished your final draft, sit back and read it aloud. Does it roll off the tongue? Did you hit any verbal roadblocks?
Here’s one thing that is all but guaranteed: if you, the copywriter, stutter along the way, your reader will encounter the same problem.
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This weeks web design critique is by Mike Jolley and is a re-design of our joint venture; Theme Slice. The angular, traditional, paged design a throw back to web 1.0, but with elegance and style. Smooth Scroll has been put to good effect to create a website that’s fun to navigate. Lets Discuss.
You’ve spent hours, days, perhaps even weeks slaving over a project. At long last your content is locked down. You breathe a sigh of relief as peace and harmony descend upon your person.
Could this be the happiest day of your life?
WordPress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. WordPress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.