Designoplasty Web Design and Development Blog

I was recently half shocked when a client requested I design a flyer for them. I do print design, but only for my web design clients that need something. I actually really like it, but it’s been a while, and I had to regroup my thoughts on what was important for this kind of design. Luckily [...]

Firefox has released a security update. Firefox isn’t my primary browser, that’s Safari, so sometimes I feel like there’s a security update available every time I open Firefox or Opera. Of course I test on them, though. I like that there are multiple browsers now, it’s a much healthier community. And they’re all better than Internet [...]

I’ve been doing this for a little while now, and I’m finding that my design aesthetic is changing, maturing slowly. I’m very happy about it. If you look around the web, there are primarily four kinds of web design. Big professional or business sites, like Amazon or Digg, are designed well enough. They’re not incredibly creative, [...]

Don Norman talks about the three ways good design makes you happy. Presentations like this are always very helpful when you need perspective. Very applicable to web design.

FeedBurner has been amazingly slow this week. It takes literally days for my new blog posts to make it into the feeds. This kind of takes away from the benefits of doing daily posts. FeedBurner is not a complicated system, it just takes your feed and turns it into its feed with some minor changes. I [...]

Oh Microsoft, will you ever learn? Only one day after downloading Internet Explorer 8, I ran into my first bug. And it’s not even tricky! It’s just something that should obviously be fine. (Watch, someone will point out my error now that I’ve said that!) It’s on my political blog, The Politimat, and it’s just a [...]

So I just updated one of my “older” blogs to make the search results and archive pages (date, tag, and category pages) much more user friendly, and an amazing thing happened. My page views went way up. You have to remember people might come to your blog because of one thing, but hopefully once they [...]

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 today. I downloaded it and am really hopeful that, well, basically that it will cause less trouble in my life than previous versions. I have a long history with Internet Explorer. In some ways it’s kind of weird to be watching it from afar. The entire Internet Explorer group, including me, [...]

With sites like Designoplasty with multiple post formats, it’s an interesting challenge to integrate photos and videos. You have the main post format which will accommodate your desired photo or video size. Maybe you have a thumbnail for one of the photos. But what about thumbnails for video, multiple photos, or cases where you don’t [...]