by Bob Wallace | Nov 18, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
In March 2014, I wrote a post describing a tool I wrote for building and editing HTML tables with an HTML table generator. Since then I have made some updates to the tool that I want to describe. For those that don’t want to read the original article, here is a...
by Bob Wallace | Oct 28, 2014 | Web Design
Try Googling that question! When I Googled it I got 361 million results, so it seems to be a question that a fair number of people are asking. I also think that the answer is somewhat complex. Part of the answer is that people tend to follow the current design trend,...
by Bob Wallace | Oct 14, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
Working for a graphic design firm is interesting. Print designers can be highly-strung individuals when faced with examples of poor typography. Straight quotes that should be curved quotes, poor kerning, fonts not using ligatures—are all examples of things that can...
by Bob Wallace | Sep 30, 2014 | HB Design, Web Design
If you think hiring a design firm to build you a web site is daunting, try researching “what you need to know about hiring a design firm.” Do some research, and you can find 44 questions to ask before hiring a design firm, or is it 13 questions, or 8...
by Bob Wallace | Sep 16, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
Finally, web browsers are becoming relatively standards compliant. The latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), and Opera render web pages mostly the same. So I was surprised to find a case where Firefox and Opera were doing something...
by Bob Wallace | Aug 14, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
I have been coding web sites from the dawn of time (1996 or so), and currently teach college courses relating to coding for the web. Until recently, whenever a web job came into the agency, the process would be to get the client’s requirements, mock-up the home...