Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

PNG Images in IE6

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

PNG is obviously the best choice for images when designing websites. This can be argued of course, but the file size is small, and most importantly, there is true transparency available. If you ever see a cool little badge floating around on a website, chances are that it’s PNG. That said, I don’t use them.
Why? [...]

Alabama Attorney Directory

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Site Smiths has just completed an incredible Alabama Attorney Directory for Local-Attorney.com. If you are in need of finding an attorney in Alabama, then check out this wonderful resource! Even better, if you have experience with any of the attorneys in the directory, you can write a review!

What is all this Latin text in my webpage?

Monday, December 10th, 2007

When designing a website, it is necessary to fill your pages with content to see what the overall page will look like once it is finished. To that end, web designers including The Site Smiths have long been borrowing from the graphic design profession and specifically their use of dummy text for graphic designs. All [...]

Easy Online Image Resize

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Sometimes my clients need an easy way to modify the size of their digital photos in order to use our Content Management System, Wordpress. The easiest way to do this is to use the website Resizr.
Once at the website, click “browse” and choose an image from your computer just like when we were adding one [...]

Make a Favicon for your site

Monday, October 1st, 2007

A Favicon is that pretty little graphic in the address bar of your browser that shows up for some sites. For example, head on over to my client’s site Cochrane Insurance.com to see it in action. It’s pretty easy to complete this task on the Mac. First, head over to Steve Cooley’s instructional page. Download [...]