Fewer Sticky Web Messes Occur When You Rely on Professionals
One thing I like to do at Disneyland, other than fill up on sugary treats and ride stomach churning rides— people watch. While in line for the Tea Cups I watched the humorous interaction of one family...
View ArticleIs Your Website Smart Phone-Friendly?
March 2010 Fast Company Magazine notes a milestone of the past decade: US Cell phone penetration was at 34% in 2000 and increased to 89% in 2010. Those figures reflect the number of phone users,...
View ArticleMr. Speedy and Ms. Right Now Say My Website is Really Slow!
The goal of a website is to attract customers, draw them through the pages, and lead them to do business with you. So, the speed of loading is key to your success. Yet, a lot of designers create...
View ArticleIf I Hire an Expensive Web Designer, Will the Quality Be Better?
Remember how Dragnet used to begin? The names have been changed to protect the innocent. I’m doing the same to recount this all too often-told story from the front line of web design. I get a call from...
View ArticleGotta Print! Gotta Print! – Website Printing Tips
Do you find that your customers want to print out your web pages? This is an old habit that for some, is hard to break. Internet and printed marketing materials are two very different mediums and...
View ArticleUse These 6 Savvy Statements to Set Your Website’s Goals
If you want an effective online business presence, your first step is to figure out your website’s goal. Surfing the Internet, you probably noticed the wide variety of websites that not only look...
View ArticleAnother Reason You Need a Favicon for Your Website
You can make all the Chrome users a little happier by using a favicon on your website. In 2011 browser statistics from the W3school (http://bit.ly/MpLWIL) showed Chrome advancing on Firefox into the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Websites: WordPress for Real Estate Agents
It’s a tale of two websites– both WORDPRESS, but two very different ways of showing off your listings and expressing your own personal style as an agent. When we launched RealInDarien.com to two real...
View ArticleFrom Blogging to Bling: Meet the Greenwich Diva Store
The Original Greenwich Diva dishes out the hot celebrity gossip and adds her own insights to the latest trending news stories. What do you do when you have a large following? It was a natural step to...
View ArticleLet’s Not Confuse The Web Design Spec With A Speck
This summer Design to Spec LLC celebrated it’s 11th anniversary. When I launched my design business I didn’t grab a name based on a common phrase, but chose carefully a phrase that describes how I...
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