FontDropper: The Best Tool Yet for Web Font Exploration
Extensis, which provides a webfont service called WebINK, has launched the coolest tool yet for experimenting with web fonts: the FontDropper.
Topics: Web Design
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Updates and Observations from the Webvanta Development Team
Writing and Design for Mobile
When you're designing a mobile site you must pare down your information to the essentials. Jacob Nielsen has a good post today on this topic, Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Design for Tablets: Big Phones or Small Desktops or Something Else Entirely?
Some sites that have amobile-optimized version with automatic device-type detection willdeliver the mobile version of the site to iPads and other tablets. Usually,this delivers a poor result. Tablets are better thought of as beinglike desktop browsers with some modest differences, rather than as beingin the same class with mobile phones.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Mobile Web: Responsive Design or Separate Pages?
In investigating our customer's needs and looking at a variety of design approaches, we've found that responsive design is the answer for some situations, but that a separate set of pages is more appropriate in many cases.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Web Site, Mobile Site, and iPad App Create Potent Sales Tool
It'sbeen a long time since we've blogged about all the great new sitesbeing built on the Webvanta platform. There'sone site we're particularly excited about, not just because of the siteitself, but because of the accompanying iPad app and mobile site.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Mobile Web Design
Searching for Our Next Employee
We're expanding, and we're searching for an outstanding front-end web developer to join our team.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting
DesignCast a Big Hit! You Can Watch the Recording
Yesterday,we presented a DesignCast for HOW Magazine about how designers cancreate great sites without getting buried in technology. Apparentlywe struck a cord, because we set an all-time attendance record for oneof HOW's webinars, maxing out the GoToWebinar system when it hit 1,000attendees.
Topics: Events, Web Design
HOW Magazine DesignCast: A Graphic Designer's Guide to Building Dynamic Websites
If you weren't able to attend my presentation for AIGA San Francisco on Building Dynamic Websites Without Getting Buried in Technology, you have another chance: I'll be presenting similar material in a free "DesignCast" webinar organized by HOW Magazine.
Topics: Events, Web Design
Creating Dynamic Sites Without Getting Buried in Technology
Many experienced designers grew up with print and want to focus on their creative skills, rather than on web technologies. At the same time, clients expect increasingly complex sites that require multiple layers of technology to design and deliver.
Topics: Events
Web Design Wednesdays: Free Talks & Lunch
We'velaunched a new series of talks for the North Bay web design community,which we'll be hosting at the Webvanta offices in downtown Sebastopol.And we're even providing lunch.
Topics: Events, Web Design