I’m very excited to attend Make Web Not War this Thursday in Montreal. It’ll be my first time in Montreal and I’m hoping to meet some cool people. Recently I’ve been attending a lot of conferences and industry events.
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We all know that it’s cheaper to keep a customer than find a new one. Then why do we spend so much more time, effort and money on marketing?
A good company ought to put its efforts into customer service. Business schools ought to be offering commerce majors the option to specialize in customer service.
Many companies today are failing in customer service. Being just good enough will put you miles ahead of the competition. Companies like Zappos are leading the way, showing others how to get things done but not enough are listening.
I have been listening.
The recent discussion on designers doing coding brought to light that many designers don’t know how or don’t want to do basic web coding. The benefits of coding versus not coding has been discussed at length.
Personally I think it’s important to be able to code your design (or at least understand how the process works).
Slicing and then coding a design is a bit different from when tabled designs ruled the internet. The goal is the same: create a well designed functioning website. The way you go about it is a little different.
There are three things to keep in mind: scalability, reuse, and fit.
Whenever I make a wordpress theme I don’t just jump right in. And neither should you.
I’m going to share my process for creating wordpress themes. It can be applied to making themes for any CMS or even if you are creating a custom back-end.
We’ll be working from the perspective that the design is finished and we have a PSD of the design.
Most marketing and business people seem obsessed with the fold. It’s a term from newspaper advertising. You always wanted to be “above the fold” so that your content was seen even when the papers were folded in half.
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I have my ticket for WordCamp 2010, do you?
I haven’t been to a WordCamp event yet. But I’m very excited. Here are a few things I’m hoping will be there and some of my expectations.
WordPress is an awesome blogging platform. I feel confident saying its the best. There are other good, even great, options out there but WordPress comes out ahead.
It seems that lately everyone is going on and on about how WordPress can be used as a CMS (Content Management System) as well. Even that it’s quite a powerful one capable of competing with popular CMS solutions like Drupal and Joomla! but should it?
This is in response to a Twitter conversation and then a blog post based on that conversation. The twitter argument basically was between people who said its better for designers not to understand web technology and those who said its OK if they do.
Some people said that it is not a hindrance to understand code and web technology for designers. They argued that understanding the limitations of technology doesn’t hinder the creativity of the design process.
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