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Finding domain names is getting harder by the day and is amongst the most frustrating things a person can do. You come up with a brilliant name that is going to be fabulous for marketing and branding, you start to get attached to it, then you search and find that either an obscure …

Over the years, I've used several different editors to build websites, ranging from MS-DOS's Edit, to Netscape Composer, to (horror of horrors!) MS FrontPage. But most of that was before I was doing anything serious with the web. For true seriosity, I've used Dreamweaver …

I'll be doing a redesign of the blog over the next couple of days, so if you see anything weird here, that's probably what it is. …

Feel like the existing Shopify themes just aren't what you're looking for? Here's a new one for you. It's called Black and Blue. After having experimented with Shopify for a while, I decided that I wanted to design a theme for it to gain more understanding of the …

There are obviously a lot of questions that you should be thinking about when hiring a web designer, but here are three that you might not have considered yet. 1. Does the web designer just do code (HTML, CSS, etc.) or does he also design the visual aspect of the site? There are …

A couple of weeks ago, I helped my family set up a website with Shopify. (The website is www.bridgeswalkingsticks.com.) Because they wanted to get the site up and running as quickly as possible they elected to go with one of Shopify's rather nice-looking templates, "Rare …

Rob Goodlatte has just released a really handy bookmarklet called Syncotype to help check the vertical rhythm of the typography on a web page. Once you've installed it, just click the Syncotype bookmark. You'll get a box to input the line-height and an offset from the top of …

This is an excellent interview with Mark Boulton. My favorite part… What education gives you is time and a different kind of pressure. In industry, the pressures are from the client, the market and making a profit. Design is a business, and as such, it's difficult …

One of my favorite ways to keep up with the latest news, techniques, and best practices is by listening to web design podcasts. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a good list of them yet. So I thought I would put together a list of my own. d.Construct d.Construct is …

Although Windows Vista comes with ClearType already on by default, it looks like the majority of web design in a Windows environment will continue to be done on XP for a little while longer. And in XP it is turned off by default. (Yes, ClearType should be common knowledge among web …

Each time I start a blog, I like to think for a bit about the sort of thing that I will be posting. In this case, my plans are to have posts once or twice a week that are either related to web design or of interest to web designers. More than likely these will fall into the …