The proliferation of web browsers is a real pain from a development standpoint. Every new browser is yet another platform to be supported. Every site now has yet more idiosynchrocies to take into account. So when Google announced Chrome recently, I was curious to see what the carnage would be for our design and development [...]
In the course of developing web sites for clients, we incorporate a lot of off the shelf open source software. This includes packages such as WordPress, MediaWiki, Gallery2, Zen Cart, and others. To use these applications in our client sites we need to customize the templates and possibly add in extensions, but we [...]
We have posted before about our delicious bookmark list. We try to add links there for the resources we find helpful and we encourage you to check out the list. But sometimes it’s hard to find the real gems, so today we’re starting what I hope will become a regular feature of highlighting [...]
As a freelancer or when starting a web design business, the tools of the trade can seem overwhelmingly expensive. HTML editing software, graphics programs, web hosting…the list of potential expenses goes on and on depending on what you’re trying to do.
However, I’ve found that there are ways to slash these costs, so you don’t spend [...]
Communications Tool & Die has set up a profile on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Check out our page here. Personally, I’m more used to furl but delicious seems to have won the mindshare of the digerati so…if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Nevertheless, it will take a little bit of [...]
Nicole wrote a post the other day about our design process. As she mentioned, when we set up Communications Tool & Die we were trying to determine a design process that would work for our company. Although we had worked in large organizations and as freelancers, it wasn’t clear what the best process [...]
When creating a website, there are a couple ways to go about it. There are pros and cons to both; it’s really just a matter of figuring out what’s going to work best for the project you’re working on and the resources available to you.
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