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Smartphone Usability: Is Your Phone Number Wrong?

1 Jul

Smartphone Usability: Is Your Phone Number Wrong?
[photo: Louis Abate] I have not seen this discussed at all, but maybe I’ve just missed the posts. I have a Droid (love/hate), and it turns any phone number online into a clickable link. When you click the phone number on a web page, it puts it into the dialer of the phone. It’s a great [...]

Fireworks CS5 PNG issue

29 Jun

Fireworks CS5 PNG issue
[image by k4rl] I LOVE Fireworks. It is a great program, with an easy to use, fast interface, and tons of great features. Photoshop is awesome for photo and print editing, but Fireworks is the best image editing program for web stuff (interface design, icon design, etc). At work I use an iMac with OSX 10.6. I’ve [...]

Website Redesign: Piedmont Natural Gas – Part 1

27 Jun

Website Redesign: Piedmont Natural Gas – Part 1
Let me start by saying that Piedmont Natural Gas is only one of hundreds of big-company websites that are still terrible. I’m sure they have great intentions, but I will use their site to highlight things that are wrong with many websites in general. The current Piedmont Natural Gas Website in Firefox at 1024×768. 1. Tell your [...]

Are you losing money by doing your own web design?

24 Dec

Are you losing money by doing your own web design?
It’s tough to run a small business (I’m doing it too), there are so many decisions to make, things to do and rarely does someone offer advice that is actually helpful. So here is mine: hire people to do things you don’t do. This might seem basic, but I have come across many businesses that [...]