7 Signs You Need a Redesign

Posted by Janine Warner - September 24, 2013 - Content Strategy, Feature-Front, Mobile Web Design, Responsive, Tutorials, Web Design

If you answer yes to 3 or more of these points, it’s definitely time to redesign your website or blog.

1. The growing mobile web audience has led to new approaches in web design. Today the best sites use a technique called Responsive Design to adjust the size and positioning of page elements to best fit small and large screen sizes. If you can’t read the text on your website when you view it on a mobile phone, or worse, you can’t even see it on a mobile phone, it’s definitely time to join the modern mobile world.

Customizing WordPress Designs with Themes and Frameworks

Posted by Janine Warner - April 21, 2013 - Responsive, templates, Tutorials, WordPress, WordPress

WordPress is remarkably simple to use when it comes to adding posts and pages, but things can get tricky quickly when you want to customize the design or create complex page layouts. You can create custom WordPress designs in at least three ways: 1. Learn HTML, CSS, and at least a little PHP, and you […]

How to create a responsive web design that adjusts to different screen sizes

Posted by Janine Warner - April 11, 2013 - Dreamweaver CS6, Feature-Front, Mobile Web Design, Responsive, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

Many web designers are calling 2013 The Year of Responsive Design. Responsive web design is increasingly popular because the biggest challenge of web design today is that your pages are as likely to be projected on a giant computer monitor as on a tiny cell phone screen. With responsive design, you create one web page […]

What’s the difference between adaptive and responsive web design?

Posted by Janine Warner - April 11, 2013 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS6, Feature-Front

Many people use the terms Responsive Design and Adaptive Design interchangeably, but creating a distinction between them does help clarify two different approaches to the modern challenge of designing web pages that work on small and large screens. In the world of web design, the only thing harder than keeping up with the ever-evolving standards in HTML, CSS, […]

Webinar April 25: Design Trends:
How Looking Good Builds Business Cred

Posted by Janine Warner - April 10, 2013 - Events

Webinar Thursday, Apr 25, 2013, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Pacific This webinar will be presented by Janine Warner, the author of Web Sites For Dummies, Mobile Web Design For Dummies, and Social Media Design For Dummies. Advice in this webinar includes: – Appreciating the value of customer-centric design Using big images, big fonts, and big […]

Creating Responsive Designs with CSS Media Queries

Posted by Janine Warner - December 29, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Mobile Web Design, Tutorials

Responsive web design is a great way to create website that work on small and large screen sizes. Responsive design involves creating one HTML page and then designing multiple style sheets to change the display based on the size of the screen where the page is viewed. This article reviews how to use media queries to target style sheets based in the width of the browser window.

Great Examples of Responsive Web Design

Posted by Janine Warner - September 15, 2012 - Dreamweaver CS6, Mobile Web Design, Responsive, Tutorials, WordPress

If you’re looking for evidence of the growing popularity of responsive web design, just Google the phrase: “responsive web design examples,” and you’ll find numerous collections of design examples. Here are a few responsive designs to give you a flavor for what responsive design is all about. FoodSense.is BostonGlobe.com Anderson Wise Architects Antonio Gaudi example […]