Top Firefox Extensions for Design & Development

Designing a standards-compliant website that is cross-browser compatible is tough.  Really tough in some cases.  Accessibility is one issue, IE is another altogether and visual appeal is the third element that makes designing a good website a balance of usability, browser-compatible code and stylesheets and an efficient user interface to allow site visitors to find [...]

WebAssist Makes Web Design Easier

As a web designer, I’m always looking for ways to make life easier.  I have a bad tendency to find a solution only to forget where I found it the next time I need it.  That’s one of the reasons I started this blog.  So I have a place to jot down where I found [...]

Move your Website to a New Hosting Server in Six Easy Steps

Many first-time website owners make the mistake of hosting their website with a cheap web hosting provider.  There are literally hundreds if not thousands of these hosting providers available, and there may come a time when it is necessary to move the web site to a hosting company that provides faster response time, less server [...]

Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to Maximize the Performance of Your Small Business Website

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a method of website design that allows for the separation of content and design. By incorporating CSS into the design of your small business website, you can increase the ability of search engines to spider your website, reduce your small business website page load time, make your site more [...]

Create Dynamic Database Driven CSS Navigation Menus with Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL

*I wrote this article on another website and thought it would be useful rehashed here. This article will demonstrate an easy way to create dynamic CSS-based navigation menus that allow you to change your website navigation sitewide with one simple MySQL database update. For this example, I will be using the Chrome CSS Drop Down [...]

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