Category: Web development

I am developing a new design for the Faculty of Management website. The front page is a portal type design with three columns. I am trying to use elastic design in development of the page, but I am left to wonder if this is the best option for a three-column layout. Here’s my question. Is… Continue reading Percentage or Pixel Based Width Columns

The current web stats software our system administrator has implemented leaves much to be desired. As a result, I am looking for something else. Here are what the software should include: Third party hosting IP exclusion No image displayed on our website No stat limits (we receive hundreds of visitors a day; I need to… Continue reading Web Stats Software

For April Fool’s, designer Douglas Bowman recreated his Stopdesign blog using the design of several well-known web designers (such as Jason Santa Maria, Dan Cederholm, Jason Kottke and Todd Dominey). He set it up so the stolen design will be completely random, so press refresh to get the whole effect. This will most likely change… Continue reading Design Stealing

I’ve been published on ALA! A very exciting time. I should point out that the article was originally written last summer, and I have learned a few things since then. Nevertheless, here is Spruced-Up Site Maps (or “Spruce Maps” as ALA cleverly named the URL) in all its glory. Looks like I got in in… Continue reading Spruce Maps

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s horizontal menus that only have partial submenus. (When it comes to web design, there are a lot of things I hate, and I don’t think I could hate only one of them, but I wanted to emphasise how much I hated this.) What I mean by this is… Continue reading Partial Dropdown Submenus

There’s a company I know that is offering a four month work experience position in website development. They are expecting the person they hire to have a lot of skills; maybe even unreasonably expecting.