Recently a client of mine hired a search engine optimization (SEO) company to help get their site optimized for search engines. What blows me away is that sometimes practices that may help in ranking a little bit blow the crud out of usability. One recommendation the company made was to use images and [...]

Recently a support request for Wordpress came up on the wp-hackers email list I subscribe to that reminded me of one of the big delimas of programming (and frankly much of life): If you can do something, should you do it? There is a big, and valuable, movement in web design called contingency design. [...]

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a technology that has been a recommended standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for some time. Adobe has put a lot of effort into a plugin for various browsers and platforms that allows people to view SVG files in their browsers. Being a web based technology, [...]

As a small business it is often difficult to keep up with client work let alone software changes and updates. One thing I run into is the problem of software version conflicts. Recently one client needed files sent to another contractor who was doing some outside graphic work (I am working on more [...]