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!) [...]
Category Archives: Web Design
Creatives: Get Up and Get Out
October 6, 2010 – 10:25 am
We are spending more and more time on the internet. Does this mean, then, that we are becoming more independent and isolated from the masses we tweet to?
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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 [...]
Rotary International Convention 2011
June 18, 2010 – 10:13 am
Design the Planet has worked with the West Bank Rotary Club for over 8 years and their international convention is coming to New Orleans in 2011. The website is the main communication tool for the organizers because of the shear number of Rotarians needing the information from around the world. Our team has also added [...]
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 [...]
An Internet Showdown!
April 5, 2010 – 3:35 pm
In case you haven’t been keeping up with the tech news over the last few months, Google and Apple have been duking it out over the direction they see the web heading. It seems that Apple is more and more interested in determining how content will flow through its tubes. It claims that Adobe’s Flash [...]
Keeping up with the Joneses
March 22, 2010 – 4:28 pm
Here at Design the Planet we take pride in being ahead of the curve when it comes to emerging web technologies. It’s important for a few reasons. It helps us stay current and viable. Since we keep current, we can continue to grow by gaining big name clients and clients that are looking for a [...]
Just Do It!
March 12, 2010 – 1:57 pm
By now, you’ve probably read all of our blogs about how much we hate IE6 (Internet Explorer 6.0). Why do we hate it so much? Let me review for those who aren’t familiar. 1. It’s old. 2. It’s outdated. 3. It doesn’t support new technology. What does this mean? It means that it’s a pain [...]
A Glimpse Into the Future
February 9, 2010 – 10:37 am
The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
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