Ifyou're in the North Bay area, stop by and meet the Webvanta team. We'rehaving an open house at our new office, along with our office-mates inthe newly formed Sebastopol Design Center: Athena Design Group andPerformance Design Group.
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In my previous post, I showed how you can track the success of individual marketing efforts with a little jQuery code. Often,however, you don't have any source code in the URL. You can put asource code in the link on all your ads, but when another site links toyou of their own volition, there's not going to be a source code.
Topics: Web Design
Ifyou are collecting leads or orders on your site, you should know wherethose prospects or orders are coming from. It's the only way to knowwhich of your marketing techniques is working. With a few lines of JavaScript, you can capture source codes from your URLs and save them in cookies for later use.
Topics: Web Design
It's been an exciting couple of weeks at Webvanta—we've moved into a new office and added two new staff members.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Events
Foley Family Wines is a collection of 34 wine brands. As the company has grown, the sheer amount of marketing collateral became hard to manage. Working with designer Ginny Laughlin of Athena Design Group, Webvanta built a custom site that provides easy access to thousands of pieces of marketing collateral for the salespeople, distributors, and retailers of all these brands.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Web Design
Theyear 2010 was, in many ways, a good year in the browser wars. Allbrowser makers improved their HTML5 and CSS3 support and made majorstrides in JavaScript performance. Even IE participated, if you includethe IE9 beta.
Topics: Web Design
"Happy New Year" message from Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress: My last message to you this year is an importantbut unfortunate one: we've fixed a pretty critical vulnerability inWordPress' core HTML sanitation library, and because this library isused lots of places it's important that everyone update as soon aspossible.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Web Design
Inthe early days of CSS-based design, square corners were a hallmark ofdesigns that focused on simplicity of code, rather than visualaesthetics. Roundedcorners remained somewhat painful to use, however, until the emergenceof support for creating them using the border-radius property of CSS3.Now it takes only a few lines of simple CSS code to have nicely roundedcorners—as long as you can accept that many users will see square corners until they move on to more modern browsers.
Topics: HTML5 and CSS3, Web Design
A Book Apart, the young book-publishing arm of the organization behind A List Apart and An Event Apart, has just released CSS3 for Web Designers, by Dan Cederholm, as a guide to CSS3 from the "what's really useful right now" perspective. As with the company's first book, HTML5 for Web Designers, this orientation, combined with an expert author, takes a large, complex subject and reduces it to a small, readable book.
Topics: HTML5 and CSS3, Web Design
We are adding to our team, and we have a full-time position in our Sebastopoloffice for anexperienced front-end web developer with excellentcommunication skills.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Events
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