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The International Symposium on Fireworks is held once every year or two. Fred Wade, of Nova Scotia’s Fireworks FX Inc., and a leading “light” in pyrotechnics, organizes the event and asked for a redesign of the Symposium’s website.
I don’t often work on a black background because it’s a bit harder to read, but for a fireworks theme it makes total sense. Choosing the colour scheme was fun. For readability, Read More…
The LaHave, from Timberframe House Plans
Visitors with screen resolution of 800×600 pixels, the smallest resolution commonly in use, Read More…
Document names are best written with hyphens or underscores rather than with spaces. Otherwise, some browsers insert a %20 for the spaces, which is harder for search engines to read. Hyphens have been found to be the best, at least for Google.
Thus “Current widget price list 2010.pdf” becomes Current%20widget%20%price%20list%202010.pdf. The search engine sees “Current”, “20widget”, “20price”, “20list” and “202010″. It’s much better to name your file “Current-widget-price-list-2010.pdf”.
Maybe you’ve heard that it’s good to have a blog on your website – that it brings more visitors. Want proof?
I have a fun little website – a labour of love - that I’ve been growing for 10 years now, the Nova Scotia Photo Album. It started out as a wedding gift on a floppy disk in 2000, and now it has its own domain and more than 1000 photos of Nova Scotia organized with captions, mostly taken by yours truly.
Look what happened after I installed a WordPress blog on the site in November 2008. Read More…
A couple of years ago, I was starting to get eyestrain when working on my computer. After working a while, I would be squinting and my eyes would water. How was I going to continue working in web design if I couldn’t look at a monitor? Panic.
So I replaced my beautiful old CRT monitor with an LCD one. I got a Dell 2007WFP, plugged it into my VGA cable and off we went. Read More…
I spent the day at a social event – a rare treat for someone who works alone most of the time, although in constant contact with clients. It was pleasant to talk about subjects other than business. I noticed that today’s various conversations tended to touch upon our individual responses to increasing gas prices, impending food shortages and rising sea levels. Read More…
For small businesses, yes, and also for non-profit and community organizations, ACSBE (pronounced “axe-bee”) runs a variety of programs and workshops. If you’re in the South Shore/Annapolis Valley area and you’re thinking of starting a business, in the startup phase, or looking to develop it further, check them out. They have free workshops on small business basics from time to time.
