I have always seen web design as some form of art. Imaginations and creations of a designer that are used to produce something very soothing for the eyes. I started second guessing my believes when I read Joshua Porter’s 5 principles to design by. I personally think that design is partially art. Yes it’s true [...]

Most of the time, especially in countries where the Internet is still seen as a luxury instead of a necessity, it is difficult to explain to web design customers how to make the design of a website attractive. Sometimes I get so irritated by those things we as designers hear. Here is an example of [...]

Even though I learned most of what I know from the Internet, I personally still enjoy using a real book as guide. We got lazy, I think, because it’s a lot easier to keep sitting behind the keyboard and to read something. I use ebooks to see if the hard copy will be worth buying. [...]

Can you do without your computer for 24 hours? Will you survive? Shutdown day is a website that will run an experiment to see how many people around the world can spend a day, 24 hours, without turning on their computer. They declared Saturday, March 24 2007 the International Shutdown Day, according to Rose DesRochers. [...]

I promised myself I would keep the number of sites I review in this blog to a minimum. I only want to review sites that are of some meaning to me. And one of those sites is John Chow’s blog. It’s meaning to me? It has a lot of visitors, so that is a place [...]

Yes, we are still talking web design here. And no, that’s not what HTML stands for. Previously I summarized what was needed to have a website online. In that article I promised to talk about HTML and I try very hard to keep all my promises. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. An HTML document [...]

Well, make that Google and Wikipedia. As a web designer/developer you need to find answers to certain questions quickly. Most of the time you can just type in error messages in the search bar and you will have a lot of instances where that same error was mentioned. No need to reinvent the wheel! Firefox [...]

As explained earlier, there is a database that keeps the user friendly names for websites and the IP address of the computer where the website is hosted. Let me use an every day example to explain how this works. The mall A mall is simply a building owned by an individual person or organization, which [...]

Even though I think it’s clear for a lot of folks what you need to have a website online, it’s good to summarize it so now and then, because it can help refresh the memory, but it is also valuable information for those who don’t. To have a website online, the most important things you [...]

Hello there, welcome to my blog. This will be the place where I will be writing about my experiences related to my work. Most of my ranting will be done at my other blog, where I will mainly write about my country. I am a web designer with knowledge and experience in working with web [...]