Web Design News

Bird Walk
To learn about bird behavior, ID and habitats, join the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society for walks at local birding “hotspots” on the Eastern shores of Okaloosa Island at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 11. Meet at Destin Bridge West parking lot. Binoculars, field guide, bug spray, hat, sturdy shoes, sunscreen, long pants and water are recommended. Call 863-2039.

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Your search engine optimization efforts hinge on finding the right keywords.

Keyword research tools such as Google’s External Keyword Tool can help you find the exact words people type into a search engine when they’re looking for something online. Whether they’re looking for flea shampoo for their pets, filing cabinet dividers, or weight-loss tips, there’s a purpose behind the words they use.

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The most comprehensive geological review ever undertaken of the upper US Gulf Coast suggests that a combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from Alabama to Texas.

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For some east Destin residents, driving across town to visit the library is too long a trip, Library Director Jurate Burns says.
“We’re so far at the west end of town,” Burns told The Log, “we’re not getting enough people from the east end coming to our programs. What we want to do this year is schedule some of our programs at the east end.”

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Blue Jean Ball
The Blue Jean Ball to benefit Covenant Hospice will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Crestview Community Center. Tickets are $50 and available at 729-1800. Event includes a silent auction, steak dinner and dessert buffet. Clark & Company and the OWC Show Choir will perform.

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An expert has urged growing businesses to be aware of web design when establishing an online presence.

The managing director of web development agency on-IDLE, Ane-Mari Peter, has claimed that the creative aspect of websites can play "a really important" role in how a brand or its products are perceived by consumers.

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New search engine helps figure out which Web technologies are most popular

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Are you looking for a new website? Or wondering what separates the cheaper websites from a professionally written website?

There are some web design differences from one website to another that make a difference both in quality and website price. For example, professionally designing a website will help a website be more search engine friendly and thus result in helping a business achieve more website traffic and sales. For this reason and many others, professionally designed websites are also often much more expensive.

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Knowing which street to turn onto while driving in the city at night soon will become a lot easier.

Fort Walton Beach's public works department plans to install lighted street signs at three busy intersections this week. Employees spent last week completing the wiring work to install the light-emitting diode (LED) signs.

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CSS or Cascading Style Sheets helps to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at the same time. CSS is a kind of Web Development language that defines 'how' to display the HTML codes and as a web developer you can assign a style for your HTML coding and apply it to as many webpages you want! To be more specific and non technical, CSS is a unique style sheet Web language that helps the web designer to allot style (fonts, color etc) to HTML elements! These styles are stored in style sheets.

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Optimizing your web site for search engines is a key component to successful web site traffic and sales. Having your site at the top of search engine results is the first step in getting visitors to your site. Having rich content and helpful information on your web pages is the second step. Reputable SEO Consultants and SEO Experts know that web site design is not a question of tricks. It’s a question of search engine-friendly web site design.

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Runways, expansions, millions of dollars in improvements. Show-and-tell galore dominated Friday's panel discussion on the three major airports along the Emerald Coast.

But it was a brief lesson in "conglomeration economics" that provided a unique perspective.

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By next summer, wheelchair users may be able to use some of Destin's beach accesses to reach the city's white sands, City Councilor Sandy Trammell says.

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Destin captains have an unlikely ally in the fight against the DEP as it targets fish cleaning on the harbor.

Usually competitors, boat captains in nearby Orange Beach, Ala., can’t understand the latest move by Florida regulators.

“That’s the most absurd thing I’ve heard in my life,” said Orange Beach Capt. Patrick Ivie of the charter boat Intruder.

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At a special meeting Monday night, Destin City Council will weigh the merits of a boost to the Emerald Coast economy compared to the drawbacks of added noise overhead.

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Bird migration count
The North American Bird Migration Count in Okaloosa and Walton Counties will take place Sept. 20. Call 862-6582.

Community Yard Sale
The Walton County Board of County Commissioners will help raise funds for the American Heart Association by sponsoring a Community Yard Sale/Craft Sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.  Sept. 20 at the Walton County Fairgrounds.

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As our world continues to get smaller and smaller, the technology needed to help us keep pace with our shrinking space has gotten more cosmic. Before when on vacation, keeping in touch with family, friends, or especially the office, was a challenge.

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According to this AmLaw Daily article, Still Loading: Law Firms lag behind the Rest of Corporate America on the Web, “there are still law firms of substantial size that have relatively poor Web site offerings, surprisingly poor Web sites.”

Yet as Sonny Cohen pointed out in his previous blog post, Award Winning Websites Announced By Web Marketing Association, legal websites that get their web design right are recognized and rewarded.

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Owning your own website is a must if you are doing business on the Internet.

There are so many factors involved in creating a web site layout and or design that there is really no right or wrong design.

A web site that may have looked clean and crisp in the template stage can totally change when you add your text and other content.

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So you need a website. You are not sure if you should hire someone or learn HTML and do it yourself. Consider these points before making your final decision.

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You turn the instructions over looking for more information, but come back to the singular line, “Put contents together completely.”

No matter how long you try to put the watch together you will find it virtually impossible without step-by-step instructions.

Unlike a manual for a watch, web design can be constructed in a variety of ways using the same components. For instance the layout can be constructed in a variety of ways, the color scheme can be original to your own personality and tastes and you determine how large or small the site needs to be.

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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets; it is a simple mechanism language that allows users for adding style to structured Web documents. Example - layout, fonts, colors, spacing and aural cues. CSS is a breakthrough in Web design as it allows web designing developers to organize the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once and change to the new markup which makes sense and then redefine it to fit web design.

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During an afternoon press conference today on Destin’s harbor, representatives of the Destin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Destin Harbor Association announced a merger between the two organizations.

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There are several useful tips for effective web design if you want to achieve the best possible results for your website. First of all think about the navigation of your site, is it easy for your visitors to get where they want to go? Your visitors should be able to check out one webpage from another with relative ease. The use of a navigational menu at the top and bottom of your pages can help. If you have several pages, think about having a 2-tier or 3-tier drop down menu.

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For nearly a year, members of Destin Church of Christ have been asking city officials permission to build and operate a free medical clinic.

Tuesday night, city council members granted the request. Members of the church are anxious to start construction on the new facility.

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Website designing acts as a major role in the online marketing field. Web Designing is a various way to decide that what your company provides and it will create specific image in visitor mind related to company and their services. It will hold your customer on website and make interest about your subject. To introduce your business in the online market, it is require to effective and meaningful web design website. It is like to produce your company in the online marketing business. Once people will leave you then it will not come back because of lack of web design which is you can say that first impression is the last impression. They may be negative impression or marketing of your company because of website design same as Cover Page of book whether it will buy or not which is depending on Cover Page of the book.

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Now that Gustav has been demoted to depression status, Continental Airlines may resume flights to storm affected areas today. Yesterday, flights were cancelled or delayed to airports in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and east Texas and the carrier was looking at airport conditions to see if flights would resume today.

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Meta Tags are HTML code elements that provide structured information about an individual webpage or website. These snippets of code are not generally viewed by your sites visitors, but they can be. The meta elements are primarily used to provide information that is relevant to browsers or search engines like describing the content of your document.

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Google’s Chrome web browser is aimed more towards web engineers than web surfers, who will have to wait to until future versions and for new add-ons to arrive in order to experience features that will impress. It does offer an innovative take on tabbed browsing, allowing you to detach and move tabs, shortcuts to access past searches and page visits, and a default page menu that lists your most-visited sites, but beyond those tweaks Google is offering the same promise for consumers that others web browsers are chasing; to experience the internet faster, safer, easier, and with more stability.

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Google plans to launch Tuesday its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer.

The California-based Web search leader said the new browser, called Google Chrome, would "add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web."

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Tourist magnet New Orleans and the Gulf Coast braced for Hurricane Gustav this week; meanwhile, early reports of damage in Jamaica and Grand Cayman indicated the tourist areas were mostly spared by Gustav.

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Your company 's website needs to incorporate an attractive front-end that captures the interest of your visitors. It should encourage their trust and elevate their perception of your business. But, proper website design also involves creating a robust back-end that can support your company 's growth over time. Many website owners approach the development of their sites without giving sufficient attention to navigation, search engine friendliness, and scalability. This article provides you with the five critical rules of effective website design.

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No business in today’s world can ignore the importance of websites. Website is a necessary part of any business or profession. Website makes a very strong impression of a company and it is very important to own a website when you are more concerned about exploring your business worldwide.

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IE8 could give Opera and Firefox a run for their feature money

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The following Florida beaches offer discount vacation packages during the fall and winter months, when crowds thin and the weather is comfortably cooler:

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Businesses hoping to create a successful site must place the customer at the heart of the website design process, according to one expert.

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TheCounter.com data for August 2008 show that Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x make up 77% of the Web browser market, with 17% of the market going to Firefox. So do you use this knowledge when designing a Web application? I do to some extent.

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Original source:
Northwest Florida Daily News
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Business Section; Page C9

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Hollywood film and television designer Don Jordan has come home to the Emerald Coast to share his cutting-edge craft.

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Every Spring at Baytowne Wharf, wine aficionados from around the globe enjoy four very full days of wine, wine, wine at the Sandestin Wine Festival in Destin, Florida. More than 600 hand-selected wines are featured at the party and you can sample all of them, if you dare.

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Many benefits can be gained through solid search engine optimized web design. Although many web designers can create beautiful designs and layouts, many put little thought into search engines.

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Road should be "substantially completed" by Labor Day

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A loggerhead sea turtle nest hatched at approximately 6 a.m. Tuesday morning in Walton County. About 70 loggerhead hatchlings ran to the Gulf.

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Mike Boyd’s firm has worked with Okaloosa Regional Airport to attract new carriers and destinations

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Workers are pouring concrete out at what will become Phase Two of Uptown Station in Fort Walton Beach.

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While an official sister-city relationship likely is still a ways off, efforts continue to develop partnerships between the city and a similar town in Sweden.

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August community happenings for the Okaloosa, Gulf Coast, Emerald Coast area of Florida.

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No business in today’s world can ignore the importance of websites. Website is a necessary part of any business or profession. Website makes a very strong impression of a company and it is very important to own a website when you are more concerned about exploring your business worldwide.

 

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Whether you're building a website or a blogsite, the investment in a designer can be fairly significant. It's at this point that many service business owners decide to cut costs and have their 16-year old nephew design their site. This works out well until something breaks (with technology, it's never a question of IF it will break, only WHEN) and your nephew is out of touch because he just started his first year of college and can't be bothered. What are you going to do?

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Your business website design should reflect your marketing goals. You should be making decisions about your website to improve your marketing results. This usually means improve usability and optimize for search.

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Downtown should soon be getting a facelift.

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SEO web design is a concept which emphasizes great architectural design principles based on how the search engines determine relevance and site information. The design should be able to give out the information that the user is seeking and at the same time be easily navigable. This is part of search engine optimization because the SEO web design should also be able to satisfy robotic crawlers and spiders in their quest for information regarding the website and other data.

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Repair work is underway on several Okaloosa County bridges.

Crews recently finished updates on the Mid-Bay Bridge and are now working on the Marler Bridge in Destin.

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FWB allows another year for Emerald Coast Partners to get building permits

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Developers seek new rea for downtown FWB

 

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The advantages of ordering pizza over the internet instead of by phone are obvious - no accent misunderstandings, no need for the phonetic alphabet and no badgering to buy unwanted garlic bread - assuming the web design is up to scratch of course.

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The best solutions are often the simplest. Here's a list of 8 tips that contain only one css property.

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I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that much of the planet already knew about the developer tools in Safari. I’m positive I’m last in line for this valuable information, but in case I’m not I want to spread the word to the rest of the uninitiated.

The other day I was completely stressed out about a blog redesign. Why? Because I’m not a designer, I am a writer, speaker and teacher. Design is not something that comes naturally to me, and it is certainly not something I am formally trained to do.

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Small Business Thought of The Day - Outsourcing Your Website Design

An attractive, well-designed website sets a business above its competitors. Customers visit company websites to locate or learn more about what the company offers. A website may be the first contact a potential customer makes with a business. If the website is strong, that contact won't be the last.

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Critics say ‘leave us alone,’ but commission votes to restore beach

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You have it all figured out: the flash on the front page is beautiful and pertinent to the site, your images are lovely and fit well, your articles are well-written and SEO'd, and you even have your SEO marketing plan set up. Everyone who sees it agrees that your site is professional and slick, well-written and informative.

So why isn't anyone coming and why aren't they returning when they do come?

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The pace of business today is positively supersonic. There doesn’t seem to be enough time for anything anymore, and businesses of all sizes are working harder and faster all the time.

It’s important to work smarter, too. And that means when you have to choose an important vendor for an essential service, you need to slow down and make a deliberate, careful decision. This is particularly important when you are getting ready to put your company’s face on the World Wide Web in a new or newly-refurbished web site.

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Since the advent of the Internet it would be obvious that web designing would offer a world of opportunities for users on the Internet. As the name suggests, Flash Web Designing involves the use of Flash in Web Designing. Flash is a multimedia tool that was developed by Macromedia. So what does Flash Web Designing has to essentially offer? It basically allows web designers to create and develop interactive movies, creative animations and artistic images which are designed such that using programming code they can be embedded into the website, besides other content. Now reading all this, one thing is certain that you must have realised- It makes a website create more Impact, makes it attractive and thus beckoning to the user.

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Recently, Country Home magazine, in conjunction with Sperling’s BestPlaces, reveals that Panama City/Lynn Haven is one of the best ‘Green’ cities in the United States.

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The results are in! Country Home magazine just published a "green" ranking of the 379 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The order was calculated on data in several areas, including air and watershed quality, mass transit usage, power usage, farmers markets, organic producers, and number of green-certified buildings. Where do Florida's metro areas stand?

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Little black and white for tourists on sand color debate

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There’re so many times I find myself struggling with IE6 and 7 issues and some other misbehaviors when working on the css of my designs.

In order to shorten the time I waste on the css and to modify the elements a bit easier, I defined some common base selectors to use and they exist almost on every css file of my previous projects and this site’s css as well.

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It is no longer a new emerging technology. It is being used on more and more web sites, and more and more users are using a browser that knows and understands better and better CSS.

But why? Why are people using CSS? Here listing of some of the many benefits and drawbacks, that CSS brings to the Web community.

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The holy grail of website design is not a site that wins awards at some design conference or at a geek convention. The holy grail of web design is searched for and found every day by designers and scripters just like you. This web design holy grail is a website that sells. Whether it sells products, services, or free information, it doesn’t matter. It sells. That’s what commercial websites are all about and that is what you should be striving for when you design a site for a business.

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The surf is up along the Emerald Coast, thanks to the long-distance effects of Tropical Storm Edouard making its way westward through the Gulf of Mexico.

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CSS Articles are posted every day on the web but the trouble is finding the quality ones. With the thousands and thousands out there only a small percentage are of very high quality - and of worth linking to. I’m going to be linking to articles on basics, writing good code, css frameworks, css layouts, navigation, forms, and of course cross browser tips. In each section I will try and provide atleast 10 links, if you users want to submit on to the list I will try my best to edit this post to add it. I hope to make this post and ever expanding list and a great resource for all people wanting to expand there css knowledge, or learn it from the basics.

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Choosing the right colours when designing a website is something that requires a lot of patience and experimentation, and – ideally – a minimum of guesswork.

Thankfully there are some useful rules of thumb to follow when it comes to working with colours, as well as some truly excellent sources of inspiration out there to help you make the right colour choices for your brand, website, and audience.

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Businesses must make sure they use colour in the right way when engaging in website design, according to one expert.

Chris Lake, editor of E-consultancy, wrote on the website's blog that while it is up to the designer to pick the right colour scheme, there are a number of useful guidelines that can also help.

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It is common knowledge that designing a website for either personal or business use can take a substantial toll on an individual’s time and wallet. But, that same website, regardless of price or effort, can be critical to the success of an individual or a company. Web design templates offer an economical solution to this dilemma, by providing a design with a professional appearance for a bargain price. Once the decision to avoid the high-priced expert has been made, the hardest part of designing a website can be selecting the perfect web design template.

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Web design is an art. There's no question about that. The question is: how many websites designed by real web designers are out there? With the amount of crap that purely invades the Internet and suffocates the users nowadays, there are serious reasons to doubt that web design is an art in its own right.

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How much should a Web site cost? Being in the creative design business, this question arises all the time. How much does a Web site cost? My answer to a potential client is “How much does a house cost? Their reply back usually is “It depends on the house.” Exactly! It can cost as much as you want it to … meaning that it depends on each individual client, their goals and objectives, what design aspects they want — as well as what programming functionalities you absolutely need. Do you want flash, animation, static HTML, a hybrid of both flash and HTML, do you NEED flash animation? What material assets will you be providing?

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The number of people who are being more and more interested in the art and concepts of web design are increasing by the second. Whether it would be use for business or for personal use, a lot of people are trying to learn everything they can about good web design. There are those who take tutorials and short courses online or offline. For web designers and developers, the art of web designing comes naturally but beginners, web designing could be a bit more difficult and so here are a couple of things to consider as one takes on the task of web designing.

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What's the best way to put an e-mail address online so that spammers won't harvest it for their own nefarious ends. But which methods actually work? Silvan Muhlemann tested 10 of them over a year and a half and shares his findings. [ Read More... ]

Writing clean code is no different than building a car with the wiring under the dash that is color coded, bundled neatly and labeled; it is just all around easier to work with. Un-fomatted code becomes difficult to trouble shoot, find particular lines of code and will certainly upset the next designer that works with your code - in general it is just difficult to read! [ Read More... ]

After years of working in the web design and graphics industry, Volatyle Flash Web Design have built up close working relationships with several tried and tested professionals, allowing us to offer our clients an extensive range of services including 3d Design and Animation, Illustration, Pixel Art and Digital Photography to take our website designs to an exceptional level. [ Read More... ]