Let’s face it; many web designers out there that still don’t understand internet marketing or SEO in the least. Sometimes changes occur that everyone embraces but others fail to make the grade. For some reason SEO isn’t being embraced by designers, perhaps because it takes away from some of the artistic and creative values designers hold so dear. There is a fundamental dilemma between search engine optimization and human optimization, which is what designers do. However, there are things designers can do to optimize their designs for search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

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Animated Favicons

The animated favicon is not terribly different from the plain favicon. In essence, animated favicon are just animated gifs that are re-named .ico. In fact, some newer browsers support plain image files like jpg and gif in spite of the .ico extension.

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A “favicon” is that neat little icon just to left of your address bar or bookmarks and is referred to as a page icon. These favicons are associated with a particular website and can be customized to any desire so long as fits the 16×16-pixel ratio. Most modern browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera support favicons and are often used as a logo display on the micro scale.

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For web designers nothing is more frustrating than lack of inspiration. It seems like writers are the only ones who have coined an “creativity block” phrase. However, web designers are artists and there are often times where inspiration is difficult to find. This “designers block” can slow you down Read the rest of this entry »

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