Developing websites — structure, content, and design

August 2nd, 2008

How do you plan a website?

I design and maintain web sites for a living, and the one thing that I see most often is too much of a focus on the graphic design of a site, or the “look and feel” and not enough on the idea of interaction with the site.

Design on the web is a very different beast from designing a print brochure, or a newsletter, or a trade show booth. I’ve spent my career doing all of these, and would like to share a bit of my insight into an effective approach to successful website planning and implementation. read more

Tags: content, creation, design, planning, presentation, structure, web, webdev, websites

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Yes, they have parties for browsers… when your browser is Firefox 3

June 18th, 2008

Or, if you have a great fanbase of cool, dedicated people.

If you haven’t already, you should download Firefox 3. It’s a great browser, and Firefox has long been the darling of the Open Source community. I’ll have an article detailing exactly why, but this is just a quick report on the great evening I had.

I was at the launch of Firefox 3 last night, and was pleasantly surprised at the number of people there at 6pm. A couple of hours later, with the beer and cheer freely flowing, the numbers of partiers was over a hundred, and the downloads were in the millions.

Read about the rest of the evening…

Tags: browsers, Firefox 3, Free as in beer, mozilla, party, Toronto

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Welcome to Geeks in Training

May 27th, 2008

(or “who is this site for?”)

Let’s face it, we’re all geeks when it comes to something. Almost obsessive, willing to stay up late to figure out why something works (or doesn’t), we’re the ones who have a passion for something – anything. We’re the ones who ask questions, are eager and passionate to learn and broaden our horizons.

There are lots of beginner how-to sites out there on any number of subjects. But you can follow step-by-step instructions on your own.
So what is GeeksInTraining.com?

Tags: about, geeksintraining

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