Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
I have been looking at a lot of sites lately. I am happy to say that no one is building in tables anymore… or so I thought until a few minutes ago.
I will back up here a moment and admit that a significant portion of the sites in our portfolio are in tables, including a [...]
“What is the cost of a basic website?”
“I really need something very basic.”
“I don’t want a big website — just something basic.”
I hear this a lot. Specifically, the “really basic” part.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing anymore as a “basic website”. Any web presence should be — must be customized to fit your needs, otherwise, [...]
We launched something very very cool today. Shockingly, online bookstores did not have buttons like these for use — not even kindle or nook. (I know, right?!) Eloisa James if the first of our authors to launch our new order structures (this is only phase one — more to come!). As soon as we started [...]
I use the word “seamless” a lot when discussing design. I feel that art should upset the viewer. Not “upset” necessarily in a bad way (though that might be the goal of the artist) but in some way — upset your thinking — make you think. Art should make the viewer think and interpret. It [...]
Facebook makes changes all the time and usually with little warning and less explanation. It’s become a common pattern — Facebook restructures something, there’s public outrage, Mark Zuckerberg issues an apology-that-doesn’t-apologize (”We are sorry you having difficulty with the change, but…”), and everyone grudgingly gets used to the change.
Code-level structural changes to Fan Pages, however, [...]
