Lately everyone has been talking about abolishing Internet Explorer 6 once and for all. Okay, maybe not everyone is talking about it, but it’s been a pretty popular subject among those of us that build and design websites. Although some of the issues with IE6 may not be relevant to the everyday Internet user, it [...]

As much as I’d like to say that everyone should hire a graphic designer for any and all visual projects, there are times when it’s not necessary or simply not in the budget. For those times, I’ve compiled a list of basic design rules that can help anyone improve their design projects. As with most [...]

This story has been covered by many already so I won’t go into great detail about it but I do want to mention it. Basically Les Otten, who is running for Governor of Maine, has put up a new website. The problem is that it looks shockingly like the website for President Obama (I also [...]

There was a really interesting post by Nicholas Carr on his blog a few days ago. The post was about the influence of Google, particularly as it relates to the news media. He basically points out that Google is a “very, very large middleman” that stands between us and the information or product we’re searching [...]

A plastic sign on the side of the road here in Corona got me thinking about design pricing. The sign was advertising cheap websites. Like most other things, design prices can range from laughably low to outlandishly high. And, as with most other things, you get what you pay for.
There are many web-based design businesses [...]