For the past year, Design the Planet has developed the vast majority of our websites using WordPress. For those of you who don’t know about WordPress, it’s a well-designed, powerful, open-source, client maintained content management system (CMS). Whew, that’s a mouthful! So what does that mean to you? Simple. WordPress allows front-end developers (that’s us!) [...]
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Please use our interactive map
September 10, 2010 – 3:55 pm
Today I was cleaning up some code and making small updates to a website that was not developed by us. The client has recently moved her business location, so I had to go through the website and update addresses. I know, that’s about as fun as watching paint dry, but had I not been changing [...]
Fun With Progressive Enhancement & CSS 3
August 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
CSS 3 is just around the corner! Many web developers are asking the question, when should I start using this cutting edge web technology? The good news is that you can start using several CSS 3 techniques now for progressive enhancement with modern browsers. Users of older browsers will still be able to access all [...]
The future of web fonts
June 9, 2010 – 10:56 am
Fonts have long been the bane of web design. For years, web designers were stuck with Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and a few others if they wanted a design that looked consistent for most users. If you wanted to get around the font issue and use something more visually appealing, your options were limited and often [...]
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