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I disapprove Wix.com
*====Updated August 2019=====Wix still sucks guys! *====Updated October 2015=====On October 14, 2015 Search Engine Land wrote an article that Google had dropped Wix.com pages out of their index. Google officially confirmed that they were working on getting Wix sites back into their search engine. And funny enough Google mention the exact same day it was Deprecating their […]
Read more...Custom Template Page in WordPress
articles, web design
Adding a custom page template inside WordPress is pretty easy. Just need a little bit of code at the top of the file and you have your very own custom template page you can reference through out your theme. For instance, you want your homepage to be a full width with no side bar. Then […]
Read more...Web Design Portfolio Examples
articles, web design
Misleading Web Design Examples When it comes to web design, there are tons of sites out there that have website samples. Lately I have been coming across these sites that have web design samples but once you dig a little deeper the live website of their so called design isn’t what is displayed on their […]
Read more...Best Designers
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Top Designer Blogs There are tons of great inspiration out there on the web. And in an age of bloggers, you are bound to find great information, tutorials, and creative talent. Best part is they post regularly and you can keep going back to their blog site over and over again to get tips or […]
Read more...Web Design vs Web Development
articles, web design
Web Design and Web Development. What’s the difference? I get tons of phone calls for people looking for a web designer and then once we get into more detail of what they want out of their website, I find that they are looking for a web developer. So I would like to point out the […]
Read more...Irina Werning goes back to the future
I was surfing the web today and stumble on to a great photographer’s website. Irina Werning, she has a very amazing concept on her website of some “back to the future” images. Basically she took some 10-20 year old photos of people and replicated them now. Very cool stuff. Below are a few examples. […]
Read more...Examples of bad web design with seo services
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There are so many companies out there selling SEO services who call themselves web designers. As if being able to rank for keywords all of a sudden makes you a web designer. Anyone can throw up some html and have a website live but that doesn’t make them a web designer. Now it is easy […]
Read more...Sharpen Images With The High Pass Filter
I am going to share with you the magic of the high pass filter in Photoshop. There are tons of articles and tutorials out there that describe how to sharpen images with the high pass filter as it is a popular technique. But what I am going to share with you is a more advanced […]
Read more...Optimizing images for the Web
articles, photoshop, web design
There are many reasons why you should optimize your images that you use on your website. First and foremost is that it creates a better user experience, no one wants to sit and wait on large images to load. Especially in the age of lightening fast internet. Back in the day when there was dial […]
Read more...Photoshop Lessons – Tutorials
articles, photography
Photoshop Lessons & Tutorials I have been giving lessons in Dallas for Photoshop for a few years now. Some people prefer more of a hands on, in person approach when it comes to Photoshop lessons or tutorials. Personally I am a visual person, so videos are probably the easiest way for me to learn. I […]
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