Wrapping your head around a business website is a difficult task for all but the most simplest of sites. After years in the web industry I still find it challenging. I’ve found that breaking a web project into a four basic layers greatly helps us and our clients understand how the website will serve its [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Work Smarter in Photoshop Using Layer Styles
These two boxes are pretty much identical. However, the bottom one uses layer styles to more efficiently achieve the same result. This little technique (which is a given for the veteran Photoshop user) has saved me tons of time and headaches.
The top box has hand-crafted effects on separate layers. The drop shadow, the outline, the [...]
How To Find Out What That Font Is
Recently I was asked to re-size the advertisement images on our latest web project forestseedlingnetwork.com. In making them shorter, the challenge was to maintain the original look and include all the original text while removing about 50% of the image size. All of them were quick and easy modifications except this one, where the text [...]
How to 301 Redirect example.com to www.example.com in IIS
Most SEO experts say that when you have two or more domains or URLs that have duplicate content, then Google will penalize you. Google and SEO experts recommend that you use 301 redirects to tell search engines that you have duplicate content and to forward to the correct domain or url.
Generally in the Linux/Apache world [...]