Web Design Blog
Working on the new design, bear with me
April 1st, 2009 by Dustin BrewerI’m working on finishing up the new design. I know there are quite a few little things here and there that I’m trying to work out. But overall the site should be working pretty great, cross-browser. I’m just having some interesting problems with Wordpress.
Definitely let me know what you think of the site, one of the major items I’m going to be fixing is getting the blog working exactly how I want it to work. Right now it is outputting fulltext because Wordpress hates me. I’ll fix that very soon, somehow.
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The art of great customer service as a freelance web designer
June 20th, 2008 by Dustin BrewerGiving good customer service as a freelance web designer is paramount to the lively hood involved with being your own business. Providing that invaluable level of intimacy with your clients is what distinguishes you from the larger ad agencies. The bigger some companies get the more attractive a freelance web designer can be. In order to be good at what you do, it takes more than great design or meticulous CSS abilities, or even explaining to the client why web standards are so important.
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Creating a photo gallery in CSS without tables
March 31st, 2008 by Dustin BrewerI have received several emails recently about creating galleries with CSS. Most people still use tables to create your basic image gallery in CSS. There is a much simpler way to do this with a list and some very easy CSS. Depending on what you want to do with your photo gallery you may want to have a caption or more information available on the page. This simple method can be expanded for use on staff pages or real estate sites to list houses for sale.
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How to ruin your website in 10 easy steps
March 13th, 2008 by Dustin BrewerA lot of people give suggestions on how to improve your website or blog. Whether it is via SEO or design suggestions. Not many tell you what is going to destroy your website. I may be a little extreme but there are several pet peeves (as do many in the web design world) have that can truly turn your site from great to lame. There may be a couple of these that are straight forward but when dealing with clients it can become very obvious that some of their ideas on how a website should function are modeled after MySpace and the ilk.
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Presidential candidate web design review
February 5th, 2008 by Dustin BrewerWhen it comes to voting for the future president of the United States, or even for the primary election to choose which candidate your party will choose, the decision can be difficult. There is health care, the war in Iraq and the economy amongst major issues for the 2008 presidential election. One of the major issues probably isn’t whether their web site’s design looks good or has valid code. However, most of us visiting this web site are probably at least curious. I know I am. I would totally run a poll to see who thought which web site’s design was best amongst the presidential candidates— but we all already know who has an obsessed and loyal following on the internet. Needless to say, the results would be a little skewed.
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Yahoo! considering bid offer by Microsoft of $44 billion
February 1st, 2008 by Dustin BrewerAs I am sure most of you have heard, Microsoft has made an unsolicited offer to Yahoo in the sum of $44 billion.
The Sunnyvale, CA based business started in January of 1994 at Standford University by two graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The orginal website was called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” In April of that same year they renamed the company “Yahoo.”
There are a ton of news articles out there on the topic right now, it is going to be an interesting situation to watch. With Yahoo! and Microsoft struggling against Google in the search arena, anything is possible.
New York Times: An Offer Yahoo Can’t Refuse
TechCrunch: What would a combined Yahoo-Microsoft look like?
Washington Post: Microsoft Offers To Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
Reuters: Microsoft says Yahoo would help it turn a web profit
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The acid3 test has been completed
January 29th, 2008 by Dustin BrewerIan Hickson has announced that the acid3 test is completed and available for testing on browsers. The test uses DOM scripting to evaluate HTTP, CSS, HTML, ECMAScript, SVG and even XML. So far none of the released browsers pass it, most aren’t even close. Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t know whats going on and Firefox 3 only gets 58/100. So it looks like the browser vendors have a little ways to go before they are ready. Ian began working on the acid3 test about the same time that Microsoft announced IE8 passed the acid2 test (with special http headers being passed).
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HTML5 Working draft has been published
January 22nd, 2008 by Dustin BrewerI don’t have much to say on this topic yet because I haven’t even gone over it much. Check it out though if you are interested in some specs and general information about the future of HTML5. The HTML5 Working Draft for January 22, 2008.
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Top 10 job boards for freelance web designers
January 17th, 2008 by Dustin BrewerThere are a lot of job boards out there that can help freelance web designers find work, a lot of them aren’t very good and you can find some clients that expect to pay pennies for hours worth of potential work. The problem you will mostly find is that a lot of people that post jobs on job boards aren’t expecting to pay much. I have compiled a list of freelance job boards for web developers that will allow you, the freelance web designer, to find work that actually pays good enough to be worth your time. Contact me, however, if you are looking for a freelance web designer.
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About Dustin Brewer
Dustin Brewer is a freelance web designer based out of Oklahoma City, OK passionate about web standards, and beautiful web design. Dustin Brewer has been in the web design industry for over 8 years through freelance and professional experience. If you are interested in hiring Dustin Brewer please visit the web design services page to find out more information. You can also checkout the web design portfolio.
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