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How to Make Great Websites for Less
Our good friends at .Net Magazine recently published a great article detailing 15 ways to keep costs down while making great websites. One of our developers, Travis Roberts, was included in the piece with his insight on a competitive tool for project management:
"If paying is a deal-breaker, then Travis Roberts, developer for centresource, recommends Redmine, which has “great version control integration,' "
We love collaborating with .Net Magazine and look forward to more in the future!
Check out the entire article here.
Accessibility with HTML5 and ARIA
When designing markup for a website or a web app, it's important to keep in mind that what others see is not necessarily what meets your own eye. Accessible design means that page elements are encoded with information about the structure and content of the document, so that screen readers and assistive devices can make sense of them, lacking the visual faculties that most of us take for granted. And while accessibility generally refers to non-sighted human users, machine users (like search engine crawlers) will also greatly appreciate your consideration.
Who said 'print' design is dead?
Some times you come across cool things, sometimes you come across great things... and then there are rare times when you come across something so epic that you have to proclaim the discovery from the snowy summit of the interwebs. This is one of those discoveries.
Here at Centresource we do a lot of initial sketch concepts / prototypes for clients. We have found it is more effective and economical to hone in on "look & feel" direction by quickly drawing rather than pushing pixels in Photoshop. Historically I have just grabbed a blank sheet of paper out of the printer and started to doodle until something emerges that resembles a website. That is until I stumbled upon the Website Stencil Kit from UI Stencils.
A recap from ThinkTank 2010
For me conferences are 1/2 wildly inspiring and 1/2 a judo chop to the throat on how much I have to learn. This past weekend's ThinkTank 2010 was no exception. Centresource's creative team is proud to be closely involved with our local chapter of the AIGA who puts on ThinkTank annually. This year's event brought together over 300 local design professionals and students to learn from some of our nation's leading creatives. This years speakers were:
- Sean Adams - partner at AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills, and an amazing designer / part-time undercover superhero.
The one-page website
Here in the creative room at centresource, we've been noticing a new trend popping up with more and more frequency in the world of web design: the one-page website. For a creative, it's an example of yet another way that designers and developers are figuring out how to break down the walls of traditional websites. And we love it.
Dangers of a Bad Website
In the early years, some could argue that having a website, albeit bad, was still superior to not having one at all. Websites were not the ‘norm’ and having one proved that your firm was unique and cutting edge. Fast forward 10 years and this is no longer the case – every business and organization is expected to have a website. But times are changing again! It is no longer acceptable to simply have a website. Now organizations are at risk to the dangers of a bad website.
