If you haven't see this TedX Video yet, I recommend checking it out. http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness.html   In short, it discussing how helping others will make you happier. I guess in short its not the having money that really gets the point across but how you treat other people. You can be poor or rich and be optimistic or miserable. It's all about perspective which leads me to encourage you to watch another video on optimism. Enjoy!     Read more [...]

What do you mean? As in what is UI? UI stands for user interface. Like user experience designers, we work a bit with usability, but primarily UI designers are visual with a touch of front end development. Most UI designers can program using the following languages: HTML XHTML (sometimes) HTML5 JQuery JavaScript CSS Most UI Designers can also use Adobe's Design Suite including: Dreamweaver Photoshop Illustrator Indesign I can do all of those plus PHP and a Read more [...]

Challenge Choosing which values in a menu should be default. Ever go to a site that has a very small country set as the default value, a country that may not even have internet (or at best makes up .5% of online internet users)? Had the UI/UX Designer thought through the system configurations, you may have filled out that form slightly faster (it's a convenience factor). Solution Most users don't want to fill out long forms and will go to another site that will make the process easier for them Read more [...]

HTML is a standardized version of hyper text markup language. The web standards project developed in 1999 around the same time HTML 4.0 was released, followed by XHTML 1.0 in 2000. These versions where a slow development in the movement towards richer web development, but could not support the same type of applications that Flash type projects produce. Here is where HTML 5 comes in. HTML 5 was developed out of a collaborative effort of gun-ho designers and developers to structure HTML web and mobile Read more [...]

I have been very blessed in my life with many good things. One is a family that truly loves me. I tell my father almost everything and in rough hours he has been there to hear me, even from great distances. He is a man of great wisdom and few words. I've spent many nights pouring my heart out to him and after hours of silly fretting I would wait anxiously at the other end of a cell phone connection for his words of wisdom. More often than not my father has told me simply, "honey life will go on." Read more [...]

This question has been nagging at me these past few weeks like I was being pecked to death by a chicken, could it be that these words are not computing with local business owners? It's like your smallest child learning how to read an can't pronounce a word, they end up creating a new word because they can't say what they are reading. No it's not a learning disability, it's an understanding of what those words actually mean and how to use it in this new age and environment of marketing. It's changed, or has it? Read more [...]

Start your web design with SEO in mind and you'll have a much easier time of making your web site visible to the world. Read these tips before starting your next project and you'll be doing your SEO work right along with your design work. Read more [...]