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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.
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.
Design for Tablets: Big Phones or Small Desktops or Something Else Entirely?
Some sites that have a mobile-optimized version with automatic device-type detection will deliver the mobile version of the site to iPads and other tablets. Usually, this delivers a poor result. Tablets are better thought of as being like desktop browsers with some modest differences, rather than as being in the same class with mobile phones.
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.
Web Site, Mobile Site, and iPad App Create Potent Sales Tool
It's been a long time since we've blogged about all the great new sites being built on the Webvanta platform. There's one site we're particularly excited about, not just because of the site itself, but because of the accompanying iPad app and mobile site.
Searching for Our Next Employee
We're expanding, and we're searching for an outstanding front-end web developer to join our team.
DesignCast a Big Hit! You Can Watch the Recording
Yesterday, we presented a DesignCast for HOW Magazine about how designers can create great sites without getting buried in technology. Apparently we struck a cord, because we set an all-time attendance record for one of HOW's webinars, maxing out the GoToWebinar system when it hit 1,000 attendees.
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.
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.
Web Design Wednesdays: Free Talks & Lunch
We've launched 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.
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