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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
How to create a traffic dominoe effect for your blog
2008-08-30 16:03:00 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 , Create
The art of great customer service as a freelance web designer
2008-06-20 13:00:00 Giving 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 ... More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer , Great , Freelance
CSS fix for the double margin float bug in IE6
2008-06-17 15:01:00 There are several well known bugs that affect only Internet Explorer 6 that can wreak havoc on your websites. One of the most annoying is the double margin float bug in IE6, simply if you float a block level element to the left it will double the margin you have applied to the element and ... More About: Double , Margin
Freelance web designer tools and productivity management
2008-06-12 16:00:00 There are a lot of benefits to being a freelance web designer. The freedom to work your own hours (all of them) and the ability to choose what web projects you take on (how much you charge) and which you decline. However, with as much responsibility that a freelance web designer takes on there is ... More About: Tools , Management , Productivity , Freelance , Designer
Styling the first post of your Wordpress blog
2008-06-11 17:00:00 I got several emails when I had published my new site design about how to style only the first post of the blog in Wordpress . This tactic can be handy to call out the very first post so that the readers attention is on the most recent topic for your blog. It is actually very ... More About: Post , Blog , First Post
How to create a good looking form without tables, using CSS
2008-06-10 17:00:00 There are a lot of different attempts that we have all made over the years to master the quirky art of creating an aesthetically pleasing form. The trouble is being able to control the form and have your labels and inputs match up nicely without going to too much work. We’ve all made a form ... More About: Tables , Good , Form , Create
New site design is here, leave lots of positive comments
2008-06-10 07:32:00 I have finally published my new site design, it is somewhat similar in layout to the old design but it has quite a bit more details to it. It is also much cleaner than the last design when it comes to over all look and feel. I’ve pushed some typographic styles on to the site ... More About: Design , Site , Comments , Leave , New Site
Site updates, new content and the future
2008-04-29 21:25:00 I have been busy working on projects outside of the blog lately and had to set several things on the side burner. I have created a new design for this site which is about half way styled out and should be a huge improvement once it is implemented into Wordpress. It may take a little ... More About: Future , Site , Updates , The Future , Content
CSS Naked Day 2008
2008-04-09 15:36:00 CSS Naked day is the day that sites shed their CSS that makes our sites look good to show how seperatation of presentation and structure is so important in web design. To find out more about CSS Naked Day visit http://naked.dustindiaz.com © Dustin Brewer for web design news and style, 2008 . | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us ...
Creating a photo gallery in CSS without tables
2008-03-31 17:00:00 I 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 ... More About: Photo , Tables , Gallery , Creating
Creating a photo gallery in CSS without tables
2008-03-31 17:00:00 I 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 ... More About: Photo , Tables , Gallery , Creating
Upgraded to wordpress 2.5
2008-03-29 21:39:00 Just upgraded to the newest version of wordpress, the admin is a much better than before. The options are much more intuitive and seems to give you more flexibility also. Happy Cog did a great job on the design and the wordpress community including Automattic, Matt Thomas and everyone else involved in the project. I ... More About: Wordpress
Upgraded to wordpress 2.5
2008-03-29 21:39:00 Just upgraded to the newest version of wordpress, the admin is a much better than before. The options are much more intuitive and seems to give you more flexibility also. Happy Cog did a great job on the design and the wordpress community including Automattic, Matt Thomas and everyone else involved in the project. I ... More About: Wordpress
I?ve been on a vacation, normality will happen next week
2008-03-22 02:45:00 I’ve been on vacation in Colorado for the past week, I let most people know about this but did not post anything on the site about it. Regularly scheduled programming should return next week. I had considered writing an article while I was here but I didn’t, wireless internet was spotty at best anyway. © Dustin Brewer ... More About: Vacation , Week , Normality
I?ve been on a vacation, normality will happen next week
2008-03-22 02:45:00 I’ve been on vacation in Colorado for the past week, I let most people know about this but did not post anything on the site about it. Regularly scheduled programming should return next week. I had considered writing an article while I was here but I didn’t, wireless internet was spotty at best anyway. © Dustin Brewer ... More About: Vacation , Week , Normality
How to ruin your website in 10 easy steps
2008-03-13 16:00:00 A 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 ... More About: Website , Ruin , Easy , Steps
How to ruin your website in 10 easy steps
2008-03-13 16:00:00 A 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 ... More About: Website , Ruin , Easy , Steps
How you can better organize your HTML with comments
2008-03-13 01:35:00 There are a lot of different ways to organize your HTML to ensure that others, and yourself, are able to easily navigate their ways around your code. One of the best methods for helping to order your code for others is using comment tags to show where certain tags end. The best tag to use ... More About: Organize , Comments , Html
How you can better organize your HTML with comments
2008-03-13 01:35:00 There are a lot of different ways to organize your HTML to ensure that others, and yourself, are able to easily navigate their ways around your code. One of the best methods for helping to order your code for others is using comment tags to show where certain tags end. The best tag to use ... More About: Organize , Comments , Html
Why Internet Explorer 8 is shaping up to be another IE6
2008-03-07 02:12:00 We all know the blood, sweat and tears we have put into countless hour of development specifically for Internet Explorer 6 since August of 2001. Now it looks like we may be coming to battle with another problematic browser from software giant, Microsoft. The IE8 team is deliberately making up their own rules again and ... More About: Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8
Why Internet Explorer 8 is shaping up to be another IE6
2008-03-07 02:12:00 We all know the blood, sweat and tears we have put into countless hour of development specifically for Internet Explorer 6 since August of 2001. Now it looks like we may be coming to battle with another problematic browser from software giant, Microsoft. The IE8 team is deliberately making up their own rules again and ... More About: Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 beta is available for download
2008-03-05 18:06:00 It looks like IE8 is about to be released for beta, there is a Microsoft site up that has various links for downloading the beta of the upcoming browser. None of the links on the page currently work but there are several versions looking to be made available very soon. With SXSW just around the ... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Download , Beta , Explorer
Internet Explorer 8 beta is available for download
2008-03-05 18:06:00 It looks like IE8 is about to be released for beta, there is a Microsoft site up that has various links for downloading the beta of the upcoming browser. None of the links on the page currently work but there are several versions looking to be made available very soon. With SXSW just around the ... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Download , Beta , Explorer
Top 5 ways to create interesting content for social networks
2008-02-27 04:45:00 There are a lot of ways to get the attention of various social networks, none of which involve gaming the system. You may get a little temporary attention from some of the social networks if you try to game the system. But that is missing the point of social networking which is to spread interesting ... More About: Social , Interesting , Social Networks , Networks , Content
Top 5 ways to create interesting content for social networks
2008-02-27 04:45:00 There are a lot of ways to get the attention of various social networks, none of which involve gaming the system. You may get a little temporary attention from some of the social networks if you try to game the system. But that is missing the point of social networking which is to spread interesting ... More About: Social , Interesting , Social Networks , Networks , Content
An easy to use to-do list web app
2008-02-27 04:12:00 A buddy of mine Amine has launched his to-do list web app for public use. It is extremely simply and similar to tada lists. I like this one better due to the simplicity of the project. It is very easy to use, no clutter or other things in the way of organizing the things you ... More About: List , Easy
An easy to use to-do list web app
2008-02-27 04:12:00 A buddy of mine Amine has launched his to-do list web app for public use. It is extremely simply and similar to tada lists. I like this one better due to the simplicity of the project. It is very easy to use, no clutter or other things in the way of organizing the things you ... More About: List , Easy
Great article about what you publish on your blog
2008-02-20 23:20:00 I haven’t been writing as much lately and when I came across this article it really hit home. It is about what you don’t publish on your blog defines your blog. Basically, if you don’t have anything good to say or write about at the time don’t just publish some regurgitated nonsense that has been ... More About: Article , Blog , Great , Publish
Great article about what you publish on your blog
2008-02-20 23:20:00 I haven’t been writing as much lately and when I came across this article it really hit home. It is about what you don’t publish on your blog defines your blog. Basically, if you don’t have anything good to say or write about at the time don’t just publish some regurgitated nonsense that has been ... More About: Article , Blog , Great , Publish
Top 10 reasons you should be using LinkedIn
More articles from this author:2008-02-14 15:05:00 There are a lot of social networking sites out there that can help you network with other people on the internet. Some of them are there to share stories, images or video. LinkedIn is there to help you share yourself with other professionals. You can get endless amounts of work on LinkedIn if you simply ... More About: Reasons , Linkedin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
