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Articles about web design and front-end development. Technical and theoretical articles from brief to wire-frames, graphic designs, content production, project expectations, budgeting, coding, devices and technology.

Website development diagram

By adminPublished: January 30, 2012
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Often I find that companies and large organizations do not comprehend the amount of resources needed to scope, develop and maintain a website, and I haven’t talked about phones, tablets and other devices. I created this simple website development diagram in order to help web managers, agencies, recruiters and whoever needs or wants to develop a website. The website matrix map is split into three devision: Development Content Maintenance Each devision can be split into many sub Read more [...]

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R.Performance UI Design for Remesys

By adminPublished: November 29, 2011
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My latest consulting work was to redesign Remesys’s R.Performance web-based software system. The brief was simple. Update the interface to a modern look and feel. “Remesys’ R.Performance software is a web-based performance and development solution that allows organisations to administer their performance and development review processes.” Read more The previous version was based on a very narrow and “safe” color scheme and user interface layout. In todays tight competition among web-based Read more [...]

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What is a front-end developer?

By adminPublished: August 8, 2011
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For many in the web industry the title”Front-End Developer” is well known but for many recruiters, agencies, HR professionals and general public the title is unknown or they simply do no understand what it means. In short, a front-end developer is a person who is responsible for the visual elements on a website such as layouts, elements, content, effects, photo libraries etc. A front-end developer codes in HTML and CSS mostly and can add javascript elements such as tabs, accordions and slideshows. Read more [...]

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Web design and front-end development time distribution

By adminPublished: July 26, 2011
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We all like effects and cleaver user-experience but at what price? User-interface, skins, themes, layouts and all other elements that make a visual communication design work are important each one in it’s own right but we must leverage and balance between all elements to gain a successful project, one that can be managed throughout it’s life-cycle.

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Content is king!

By adminPublished: July 1, 2011
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“content is king!”, it’s a debatable statement but I do believe that content is more important then the technology that presents it. Recently I was searching for an online course about fear of flying as I was about to depart on a long international flight. I found a very unattractive website (www.fearofflyinghelp.com) that is very basic but just after a few minutes of reading I got hooked to it and finished all 5 lessons. This is just one example of a basic website, no fancy images or effects, Read more [...]

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