Tag: Web design
Web design ‘pre-flight’ checklist
Over the years of being a freelance web designer, I’ve been developing my own processes for the business of designing websites. One of those processes has been compiling a list of tasks that need to be completed before launching a website, whether it be a new site or a redesign. This list is kept in a spreadsheet which I work through, ticking off each item after the client has given final sign off for the site to go live. I view it as my final quality control procedure and I usually find that the process will highlight a few of the ‘little things’ that I might have overlooked in general development. Usually nothing too major; more a case of ‘dotting all the Is and crossing all the Ts’.
More useful extensions for developing with Firefox
A while ago I wrote about some of the extensions I use with Firefox which make the job of web development easier. I’ve since added some new ones to Firefox that I use on a fairly regular basis, so thought I should update the list.
What it’s like to run a web design gallery
Having compiled the list, done the numbers and dealt with the facts, I thought for the follow-up article to the The Ultimate Web Design Gallery Resource that I’d get some opinions from not only some of the people who run the web design galleries in the list about what it’s like to run one of these sites, but also some search engine optimisation (SEO) professionals about the perceived value of having your site included on one (or many).
The Ultimate Web Design Gallery Resource
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In case you haven’t noticed lately, there a LOT of web design galleries out there. I’d always kept bookmarks for the galleries I’d come across but recently while looking at one I noticed links to a lot of galleries that I hadn’t heard of before. So I thought it might be worthwhile to investigate just how many there were out there. I came across a few blog posts with links to galleries but rather than just adding to the list and then publishing it, I thought I’d do a bit more investigation and analysis.
How thinking about your website can benefit your business
I recently had a discussion with a client that I’d already produced a template for who said they wanted to change the primary navigation items at the top of each page. As the site hadn’t gone live yet (they were producing it themselves – I’d simply done the graphic and template design for them), I didn’t see much problem with fulfilling their request. But it was a two-part request and the part that raised a warning flag for me was that they wanted the navigation to be flexible enough for them to be able to make further changes easily at some point in the future.
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