An App or a Mobile Website?

Posted by Janine Warner - January 24, 2014 - Feature-Front, Mobile Web Design, Web Design

It’s increasingly important to make your website mobile friendly, but do you need an app, too?

The Art of Mobile Design

A mobile website looks great on small and large screens.

An App, or as the geeks say, a “Native App,” is an application that you have to download from iTunes or another store.

Three clever ways to search for your own site (and improve SEO)

Posted by Janine Warner - October 3, 2013 - Content Strategy, Feature-Front, SEO, Web Design

There are many ways to improve SEO. These three search tips can help you make more informed decisions about your SEO efforts. 1. Search to see how many people link to you. This is a great way to find potential friends and allies you might not even know you have. To find inbound links […]

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 […]

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 […]

What’s on your 404 Page?

Posted by Janine Warner - January 17, 2013 - Content Strategy, hosting, Tutorials, Web Design

In the rush to get a new site online, or to keep your current site up to date, it’s easy to forget little details, such as the 404 Page — the page is what your visitors see when they follow a broken link, type in a bad URL, or otherwise try to open a page […]

What’s the difference between a website & blog?

Posted by Janine Warner - September 16, 2012 - Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

Dreamweaver vs WordPress

You might be surprised how many people are confused about the difference between a website and a blog, and how complicated it is to answer the question about which one is better…

Essentially, a blog (short for web log) is just a special kind of web site. Blogs are designed to make it easy for anyone to post text and images to the Internet (even if you don’t know HTML, the language of web design).

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What’s the difference between web hosting and domain registration?

Posted by Janine Warner - September 16, 2012 - FAQ, Feature-Front, hosting, Tutorials, Web Design, Web Hosting

Domain registration and hosting are two separate services. Many companies offer both, but they are completely different services. Here’s a metaphor that may help you understand the difference (it confuses a lot of people): Think of a hosting company like an apartment you rent, a place where your web site can live. Think of the […]

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 […]