Posts tagged “web design”
WordPress Wednesday: LaunchPad
LaunchPad is a killer WordPress “domain parking” theme. It’s the perfect way to let visitors know that something cool is “coming soon” when you’ve registered a domain name but haven’t yet had a chance to actually build anything. This high-impact, minimalist layout (example) comes pre-configured with two RSS subscription options — via email or feed
J.Crew Follies
I am astounded by how bad the J.Crew website is. The .jsp filenames indicate that the site is Java. It is tragically slow and the senseless implementation of AJAX makes it near impossible to use. It’s almost 2009! How can there be so many horrible shopping cart systems on the ‘net? And for such a
Parsing PHP in CSS
Dynamically process your css scripts
WordPress Theme
About WordPress themes
WordPress Tags
In which I customize Wordpress to deal with my site prior to fully implementing tagging
Blue Cross of California Member Registration
The new member registration form at the Blue Cross of California website has what I consider to be several major bugs. A user’s username must contain a number and a letter. Because this is not exactly a ‘net “standard”, they need to do a better job of bringing this to your attention. When you submit
A Rant about Keywords and URLs
A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere
MTV Redesign
MTV completely redesigned their site. They switched from all-Flash to (gasp!) all-HTML. Brilliant.
Photoshop Tutorial – Polaroid Images
In which I explain how to make digital photos look like old analog ones