JoshWhite
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Does anyone NOT use a preprocessor?
This is a topic I've also been wondering about. I also submitted a question to Shoptalk to get some additional thoughts hopefully. One concern I have is longevity and how this works within teams. Let's just say for example that I use SA…
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Wordpress: show custom post types, by category
@Senff are you using Custom Post Types UI or is this just manual? What I've always done inside of the plugin was change the taxonomy type to "hierarchical" and they seem to function the way you are describing.
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Website feedback
What do you mean by "aren't working"? Content is #1 in my opinion, but it's no as simple as "just have content". You've got to make sure it's detailed enough and talks specifically about the types of things …
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Out sourcing Problems to Fiverr
I just saw a profile of a girl of about 19 years old advertising over 12 years of experience as a graphic designer with over 40,000 logos designed to date. I just can't wrap my head around a 10 year old knocking out about 3,500 logos every yea…
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at which width should a website have its min-width?
I'm curious what others say, but I don't believe there should be a min width. Typically I only set max-widths. The minimum width will just do it's job naturally. I plan on somewhere around the neighborhood of 300 pixels wide when I…
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Twitter Advertisement vs. AdWords
I haven't. I didn't realized it worked the same way to be honest :)
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Twitter Advertisement vs. AdWords
I've been browsing the web for a while and have clicked maybe 2-3 ads in total That's true. I'm the exact same way. But I can tell you without a doubt that adwords absolutely work in a lot of situations. There is a reason that…
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Media Queries: Mobile keeps adding space??
That's a good catch-all, but in the end you shouldn't need to do that. Since I've posted that, most of my projects are responsive now days and I've always found the culprit was some kind of width that wasn't fluid by the ti…
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Please Help Me Review My Website
The initial image you see doesn't really do anything. For example, the iPad is just a generic iPad homescreen. That doesn't tell me anything about you, your company, what you can do, etc. The second image is a bit more applicable, but a…
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Responsive Web Design AFTER Desktop Site Created?
If you are going to redo it, going with adaptive seems pretty half ass and like it wouldn't be worth it to do all that work when you could have just gone mobile first instead. Which if done correctly isn't anymore work than adaptive, an…
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Responsive Web Design AFTER Desktop Site Created?
Since you haven't designed it to be responsive you will have to go with adaptive. I was just about to say this. Basically the breakpoints will be pretty massive shifts in the layout instead of a fluid grid. Paulie is 100% right in that u…
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Learning about typography on the web
I know for some people typography isn't easy to understand. For me, I think the question might be "why should we care"? That isn't coming from a point as a challenge, but I think that typography is new enough that I still f…
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Responsive Web Design AFTER Desktop Site Created?
Agree it would be easier if we could see the site in question. I've found that it isn't always a massive problem to go in afterward and convert it. The problem is when someone uses 50 million container divs and a boatload of absolute pos…
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Why Can't We All Just Work Together on Themes!?
The whole point really was more to help designers generate additional income rather than have the majority of their profit taken by the seller Ohhh ok I gotcha. Honestly though, and I'm open to changing my mind, I don't really see th…
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Why Can't We All Just Work Together on Themes!?
I wouldn't quite say using a theme constitutes a lazy designer. I've used them in cases where people I know literally didn't have the money at the time to do anything better, so we did the best we could with their budget. It's …
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Why Can't We All Just Work Together on Themes!?
I think it's a half decent idea. The main problem though is that there are 2 very different kinds of designers out there when it comes to themes. The first group are those that primarily use themes as their main source of building the creativ…
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What Else can I do to improve webpage size/speed?
Agree with @TheDoc - something looks like it's not functioning via caching. You could also try caching the images through the .htaccess if you are struggling to get W3 Total Caching (this isn't the first time it just doesn't seem to …
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Website feedback?
Personally I think you need to reconsider your stock photo choices. Photos should enhance the experience, not be there just for the sake of being there. For example, the "Display" photo has nothing to do with displays at all, but instead…
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Menu placement opinions
One other thing to mention about A List Apart. I personally don't like the navigation and I don't feel like it's intuitive. I don't think it makes a lot of sense on how it works on the homepage versus the other pages. But that…
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Menu placement opinions
The challenge is to design navigation (or anything really) that is familiar, yet unique. As designers, we struggle every day with trying to build something that is constantly trying to be pulled back into line with what else is out there. Just abo…
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TypeKit vs Google Web Fonts
Therefore, I think it would be impossible (and maybe even unfair) to implement them into a rate. Adding it to the cost of the project seems more logical. I think in the end it would be the same thing. I don't do anything by an hourly rate…
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Become more employable Web Developer
I guess as @JoshWhite mentions, one should perhaps focus more on team leading, managing things after "ehhm" learning enough technical skills to get the job done. Yeah that's definitely where I was focusing. Most anyone can learn…
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Become more employable Web Developer
Competition is huge. Every kid can do a website these days. I'm going to be a little harsh here: I call bullshit. Can any of us easily name an industry worth going into that isn't competitive? Even dying mediums, like Yellow Pages, …
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Responsive Gallery
What is the scale of what you are trying to accomplish? It would be helpful to know a few more details.
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TypeKit vs Google Web Fonts
I don't consider stock photos an out of pocket expense. It's something that the client and I will arrange before any project starts. It's pretty common for me to talk to them about what kind of artwork they have, what artwork we…
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Font Combinator
Ahhh I gotcha. I didn't even see that on the site when I browsed through it.
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TypeKit vs Google Web Fonts
Do people really pay out of pocket for their client's webfonts? They really should be treated no different than stock photos imo.
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TypeKit vs Google Web Fonts
Can it possibly have something to do with how it renders the font weight? That seems to be one of the biggest problems among people using custom fonts. Google to me seems to force you to define the font weight while I've never had a problem w…
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Font Combinator
Yeah but it looks like Typecast is just another "Typekit" font service, right? Font-Combinator is just a free tool that shows you all of the google fonts so you can just see what might work together then just go grab them. So if you use …