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Dustin Brewer - The technology of design and markeDustin Brewer - The technology of design and markeThe technology of design and marketing is a blog about web and graphic design as well as an oklahoma web design firm. The web site goes over various graphic design, web design and SEM techniques. Articles
Presidential candidate web design review
2008-02-05 23:46:00 When 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 ... More About: Web Design , Design , Presidential , Review , Candidate
Having troubling finding your polling location to vote?
2008-02-05 14:14:00 I have heard a lot of people have some trouble with locating their polling location so they could vote for Super Tuesday (and other primary election days) in the primaries and caucuses for the presidential election. I know I had a little trouble finding my polling location. To help out, Barack Obama has an awesome ... More About: Vote , Polling , Location
Yahoo! considering bid offer by Microsoft of $44 billion
2008-02-01 17:51:00 As 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 ... More About: Yahoo! , Offer , Billion
The acid3 test has been completed
2008-01-30 06:47:00 Ian 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 ... More About: Test
Top 10 search engine optimization techniques
2008-01-30 06:10:00 There are a lot of techniques that can be used in search engine optimization that can help or hurt you when it comes to SEO. Some of the big ones that can hurt is keyword stuffing and page cloaking. You want to always make sure that you are building a site for your visitors first ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Engine
SEOMoz is having a search marketing survey
2008-01-29 22:09:00 SEOMoz is doing a survey of search marketing professionals, if you work at all with search engine marketing, social media marketing, PPC advertising or any related field I’m sure it would help a great deal with their survey results. Also, you could win an iPhone (or $400 if you have one). Be patient though, their ... More About: Marketing , Survey , Search
Web developer tool for Firefox, IE6, IE7, Opera and Safari
2008-01-28 17:26:00 It is rare to come across a tool that works across all of these browsers but it looks like there is one that can be very helpful. It is a lot like Aardvark meets the Web Developer toolbar. The tool is called XRAY and it is a bookmarklet that you can drag to your links ... More About: Safari , Firefox , Opera , Tool
HTML5 Working draft has been published
2008-01-22 20:58:00 I 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 Workin g Draft for January 22, 2008. More About: Published
Top 5 RSS readers for serious and extreme readers
2008-01-22 15:00:00 I consider myself one of those people that monitor 100s of RSS feeds daily and actually read a large portion of the articles I see a day. So when it comes to using a feed reader, you need it to be very good at what it does. At one point I used Opera’s built-in reader ... More About: Readers , Extreme
The best free web development add-ons for IE 6 and 7
2008-01-21 15:00:00 We have all used the great Firefox extensions that make our lives easier, there are thousands of lists out there of the top 10-15 Firefox extensions for web developers. There is of course a lot of resistance from web developers against using Internet Explorer because of its lack of standards support. A lot of this ... More About: Web Development , Development , Free
Top 10 job boards for freelance web designers
2008-01-18 05:53:00 There 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 ... More About: Designers , Freelance
Using twitter to bring traffic to you and your blog
2008-01-15 15:00:00 Twitter isn’t exactly new but there are a lot people that see it as a waste of time when it comes to marketing or even using. Used incorrectly it can be a very big waste of time, not to say that it can’t be entertaining or useful for communication and amusement. There is more then ... More About: Traffic , Blog , Twitter
Contest for the best ACID3 test
2008-01-14 14:58:00 Ian Hickson has announced on his web site that he is running a contest to come up with some great JavaScript (EMCAScript 3) tests for ACID3. Ian has set aside some criteria for the test that need to be followed but once you think you meet the requirements and feel the test is effective he ... More About: Contest , Test
Weekly web design and marketing links for 1-11-08
2008-01-12 02:59:00 There have been some great posts over this past week from all over. It really can take quite a bit of effort to sort through the articles you read and receive through email to pick out the best to share. There are always a dozen more articles that I think should be included in my ... More About: Marketing , Web Design , Design , Links , Weekly
Developers are working on ACID3 test
2008-01-10 15:27:00 With the announcement that both Firefox 3 and IE8 have passed the acid2 test, Ian Hickson has been working hard on the acid3 test. The new test will focus mostly on ECMAScript and Dom through Selectors Level3, Media queries and data URIs. The new acid3 test isn’t quite ready yet but it should become ready ... More About: Test , Developers , Working , Workin
Why web standards are important in web design
2008-01-07 18:00:00 There is a lot of talk amongst designers about why web standards are important, sometimes it is a bragging point to say that you know a lot about CSS and HTML and can make a good site within standards. Some of it is just a line to make whatever you are doing sound better. I ... More About: Web Design , Standards , Design
CSS Image replacement technique
2008-01-07 15:00:00 There are a lot of reasons that you would want to replace simple text with an image. One of the biggest reasons is the benefit of getting the text that is within the image for search engines. This method is used mostly for site headings. Say you were making a site about ?Freelance Oklahoma Web ... More About: Technique , Image
Back after the holidays
2007-12-26 15:11:00 I’ve been sick over the past few days and with the holidays and the new year coming up I haven’t had any time to write any articles. So expect everything to return back to normal on the 1st of the year. Everyone have a fantastic rest of the year. More About: Holidays , Back , The Holidays
Microsoft announces that IE8 passed the acid2 test
2007-12-20 01:43:00 As some of you may be familiar with the acid2 test and some may not, I’ll give a little information to help you understand what it it. The acid2 test is a css test, a web standards test really. The test creates a simple smilely face image using CSS, browsers that are compliant (safari, opera) ... More About: Microsoft , Test , Anno
8 great digg-like social networks for designers in 2008
2007-12-19 15:00:00 There are a lot of social networks available for every niche you can think of, some of them aren’t as good as others and the good ones always need a little attention. I’m sure a lot of you have been to a few of these but should be members of all of them. Interaction is ... More About: Social , Social Networks , Networks , Great , Designers
Top 5 free SEO tools for web developers and marketing professionals
2007-12-18 23:12:00 There are a lot of tools out there for web developers and marketers that do all kinds of different things. It is hard to know what is important and what isn’t important when you are using some of the tools available. When it comes down to it, the best way to get search traffic is ... More About: Marketing , Tools , Free , Developers , Professionals
CSS text effects you may not know about
2007-12-17 15:22:00 There are a lot of different ways to display text using CSS, some of them are rather straight forward. Like assigning a color or setting the font size of your text. However, there are several text effects that you may not know about that can manipulate more then just the color or font size of ... More About: Text , Effects
The importance of using lists for navigation
2007-12-16 08:27:00 It is important to use lists in navigation for semantics, accessibility, aesthetics and flexibility. Not using lists for navigation can lead to confusion, inaccessibility and unclear markup. There has been an article published from a popular CSS tutorial web site that is slightly misleading and generally not the best advice for developers and designers. It ... More About: Lists , Navigation
Testing out my blog with a language translator
2007-12-16 06:45:00 I recently found a Wordpress plugin that allows for the translation using Google translate (or babelfish) of my entire site. I know that I get quite a bit of traffic from all over the world and so I thought it may help to have a translation available in various languages. I only speak English so ... More About: Testing , Blog , Language , Translator
Web design links for December 15th, 2007
2007-12-16 03:34:00 The year is getting close to an end and it seems that in these last couple of weeks of the year only the most dedicated bloggers are taking time to write posts. Which is great for those that are looking for content, but difficult for those of us that want to be sure to get ... More About: Web Design , Design , Links , December
Clicky web analytics is 50% off today only
2007-12-14 19:08:00 I have been using Clicky for my day-to-day analytics for some time now. I like that they give you an embed that you can easily use within your own site so that you can type something like dustinbrewer.com/hits/ and see what your current traffic is. They are pretty accurate and give a ton of information ... More About: Today , Analytics , Icky , Anal
FreelanceSwitch releases ?How to be a Freelance Rock Star? book
2007-12-14 15:10:00 FreelanceSwitch, the popular freelance blog, has finally released their long awaited “Freelance Rock Star Book ” with all kinds of great chapter for web designers, writers, graphic designers and photographers. It is a fantastic resource for anyone that is in the freelance business. It is an accumulation of what they have been writing about in their ... More About: Freelance
Opera files formal complaint against Microsft and IE
2007-12-14 01:24:00 Opera’s CTO announced that they are filing a formal complain against Microsoft and the Internet Explorer browser. Their complaint is about their lack of support for web standards and the disservice they have done to the web community at large. Opera calls for the support of the web community in this charge. This is fantastic, I’m ... More About: Opera , Files , Complaint , Formal
Finding inspiration for a color scheme
2007-12-12 15:15:00 We all have our different practices that we use for starting a design of any kind. Sometimes we start with paper and pen or sometimes we may even jump right into Photoshop or Illustrator and begin tossing around ideas. One step we can’t skip though is choosing the right color scheme for our design. It ... More About: Color , Inspiration
The traffic domino effect for your blog
More articles from this author:2007-12-11 15:03:00 There are a lot of ways to create traffic for your blog, one of the best ways that I have found to generate interest and traffic is through social media. Not just digg, newsvine or reddit but through some of the smaller niche social media sites. Such as designfloat, tutorialized and dzone. All of these ... More About: Traffic , Blog , Effect , Domino , Domin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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