Brad Frost, front-end designer, consultant, and creator of This Is Responsive, recently gave a presentation for Creative Mornings in Pittsburgh that demands to be shared. In this talk, entitled “Death to Bullsh*t,” Brad mixes startling statistics, humor, honesty and passion as he makes the case for creative professionals to dedicate themselves to generating signal, rather… Read more »
Posts Tagged: web design
Page layout and Google ranking
If you’ve ever visited a website only to be frustrated by having to scroll through a slew of graphics, flash, ads or other stuff in order to get to the content you were after, Google feels your pain…and has recently revised its ranking algorithm accordingly. Google’s algorithm will now look at the layout of a… Read more »
It’s always personal
While I’ve been fortunate to have had a number of opportunities to lend my design services to the fight against Type 1 Diabetes, it’s rare that I get a venue to use my words in that effort. However, I was recently presented with just such an opportunity. Lisa and I are honored to be featured… Read more »
The power of one pixel
Going through some older bookmarks, I re-discovered this little gem created by Ben Mautner of Wider Angle: Population One: One Pixel is One Person While I’m ordinarily not a fan of web pages requiring horizontal scrolling, I found this to be a terrific application for an otherwise frustrating task. In fact, in this case, I… Read more »
A funny thing happened to Web 2.0
Unless you have somehow managed to have very limited dealings with the web, whether as a user or a marketer, you have undoubtedly heard the term Web 2.0. Perhaps even to the point of disdain. This term, coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, began as a concept intended to describe the next generation of the… Read more »
