Bought Another Site on Flippa
Published: Sep 30, 2013 - Tags: internet marketing flippa wordpressSo another day and another website purchased. This one again within the WordPress design niche. The site is a premium plugin review blog.
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Design Blogs to Follow 2013
Published: Jan 15, 2013 - Tags: bloggingI'm lazy and didn't make this but it might be useful for finding some good reads. I wrote a similar post last year.
Read More »A Revised Responsive Design Workflow
Published: Dec 14, 2012 - Tags: responsive design interface designI wrote a post a while back about creating a responsive design workflow and not that I feel it is 100% wrong now, but I've learned a lot since then and I'm doing things a little differently now than I was then. So here are some tips if you are…
Read More »Turning a Static Website Responsive
Published: Nov 14, 2012 - Tags: interface design responsive designAt some point you either realize you probably need to start building websites for all devices, or you have some old websites that need to be converted to work on mobile devices. Either way, it isn't as hard as you think. I'll go over the basics of converting your static…
Read More »What I’ve Been Up To
Published: Aug 01, 2012 - Tags: internet marketing niche sitesI haven't written a post in a while so I guess I'll fill you in on what it is I've been doing the last month and what I'll be doing over August. I definitely haven't been being lazy.
Read More »Drupal vs Expressionengine - A Designer’s Perspective
Published: Jun 25, 2012 - Tags: drupal expressionengine content management systemWell since I've been working with both ExpressionEngine and Drupal now for a little while I guess I should go over the pros and cons of using each. Just as a disclaimer I've disliked Drupal since I first got introduced to it back at version 5 but it has grown…
Read More »Responsive Design Tools For Speedy Development
Published: Jun 22, 2012 - Tags: responsive design cssResponsive design is becoming if not isn't already a design standard. The focus of this post is tools, tutorials and templates to help you build designs faster. Reusing code, templates, tools, using frameworks, javascript and more, plus lots of other resources from around the web.
Read More »Responsive Design As A Standard
Published: Jun 20, 2012 - Tags: responsive designResponsive Design As Standard With over 50% of internet users now searching the web on their mobile phone, the time has come to make responsive design a standard practice when creating a website. If your company is commissioning a website, the following information will give you an introduction to responsive…
Read More »Flat File CMSes to Consider
Published: Jun 07, 2012 - Tags: content management systemFor smaller sites most times the larger CMSes aren't necessary and may end up slowing you down. Having to develop a site on a test server and set up the database are steps you really don't need to take for a site with mostly static content. You want to be…
Read More »Moving to Drupal, Involuntarily
Published: May 30, 2012 - Tags: drupal content management systemI have never been a fan of Drupal and have not written the nicest things about it. Drupal has an excellent selection of Modules but the experience for users and front-end developers has always been a pretty bad one.
Read More »Using Responsive CSS Frameworks for Faster Development
Published: May 22, 2012 - Tags: css responsive designResponsive design is cool and all. The shift from desktop to multiple screen sizes, both small and large, will continue but the problem of the increased development time associated with creating responsive designs can hurt. Especially, when you end up with a totally custom design that needs to work in…
Read More »Web Design Blogs to Read in 2012
Published: Apr 08, 2012 - Tags: bloggingI am always on the lookout for good new blogs or those with great content that I haven't seen before. In the web design field it seems like a handful of the larger blogs can drown out the voice of the little guys who many time have better things to…
Read More »Clean and Unique Website Layouts
Published: Mar 25, 2012 - Tags: interface designMinimalist web design has had it's impact on web design and now we've gone on, bring back the color and imagery while still keeping the clean look. Some new layouts have also become more popular in the last year or so. Here are some fresh designs that are clean and…
Read More »Easy and Simple CMS for HTML Websites
Published: Mar 19, 2012 - Tags: content management systemI think we’ve all been asked for it. Clients with real basic, static html websites that want to be able to update their own content. For those of us who use a more feature rich CMS this can be a problem because it does take some time getting a pre-existing…
Read More »Why I Don’t Have A Design Portfolio
Published: Mar 07, 2012 - Tags: design portfolioFor the last two almost three months I haven't had a design portfolio online. I had every intention of creating a new one to replace the one I took down, but other things, like this blog and another personal project, got in the way. I've been thinking a lot about…
Read More »Alienating Content, and Writing Poor Copy
Published: Mar 05, 2012 - Tags: web contentHow do you learn to write for the web? It certainly isn’t a major taught is school. You would think it a simple task. After all, many of us write in some form every day. Yet of the proficient writers out there, maybe only a handful of those are capable…
Read More »Photoshop to CSS, Shadow in Web Design
Published: Feb 26, 2012 - Tags: interface designWhen it comes to good design, it can be the most basic elements that make it happen. Shadow and gradiation of colors can be used to both create perspective and depth, as well as contrast in web design. For a while now we’ve only been able to create these in…
Read More »Awesome Conference and Festival Websites
Published: Feb 19, 2012 - Tags:When it comes to awesome looking websites, conferences and festivals tend to be some of the best. They are ment to be fun or informative events so designers are able to have fun with the design. Often experimenting with new techniques, playing with wild colors, strange type, and crazy imagery.
Read More »New Design and What I’m Writing
Published: Feb 14, 2012 - Tags: newsThe new site is up and almost finished. Still a few bugs, a lot of tweaking to do and a few old pages still hanging around. I've also has a few posts published at other blogs around the web, so I've put together a little list of those.
Read More »Impression of Firefox’s New Developer Tools
Published: Feb 11, 2012 - Tags: web development cssThe lastest version of Firefox, which is 10, has some fancy new features for web designers and developers. For the first time Firefox has built-in inspect element functionality for html and css. It isn’t revolutionary, but the design and functionality is pretty slick. That, and this is just the first…
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what this blog is all aboutCouchable is a web design blog created by Tyler Herman. Not really updated anymore because I'm busy doing freelance design work and busy launching my little WordPress theme shop Real Theme Co. You can read a little more about my at my personal site Tylerherman.com