Celebrate African American Graphic Designers
We are excited to honor and celebrate African American graphic designers who have inspired social change. These great designers influenced society by challenging opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. For this Black History Month, we would like to lift up graphic designers who you may have never heard of, but who have …
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Website User Experience Lessons from the Smashing Magazine Conference
Last week we got a chance to go to two workshops hosted by Smashing Magazine. I went to a workshop hosted by Dan Mall, a superfriendly creative director and advisor from Philadelphia, who talked about responsive design workflow and Mark was lucky enough to meet Vitaly Friedman, the editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine and chat about front-end patterns over …
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Exploring the Web and Website Design
The internet is like a jungle. It’s a fascinating, living ecosystem that never stops growing and creates new lifeforms everyday through website design. Until this point, my background was mostly print design which is a similar environment but it lives by its own different rules. That’s why I’m looking at many of these web lifeforms …
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Get the Website Security Blanket
At Uptown Studios, we love building websites on WordPress, with all of it’s flexibility and ability to grow and scale to any size – WordPress can handle almost anything you throw at it. Websites powered by WordPress only become insecure if they are allowed to be so, which means it’s critical to make sure you …
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5 More Ways To Make Your Website More Effective
Last week we discussed 5 Ways To Make Your Website More Effective as part one of a two part series. So, without further adieu, I present to you the conclusion to last weeks post, 5 More Ways To Make Your Website More Effective. Enjoy! Make your website focused, fresh, informative and relevant with a blog. Blogging is the best way to keep your content fresh …
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Top 5 Web Design Trends of 2014
I know its a tad late, but Happy New Year! Last year was pretty great, amirite? Good times, good times. But 2013 was not without its shortcomings, especially in the world of web design. And the times they are a-changing. So without further ado, here are my Top 5 most anticipated (and some already happening) trends in web design for the year 2014 and beyond.
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Read More »‘WWW’ is out. Naked domains are in!
Naked Domains Gradually over the last decade or so, URLs on the World Wide Web have been ditching the www prefix for their domain sans www, otherwise known as naked domains. Opinions for and against this recent trend have been somewhat split. One of the only real reasons to still use the www in a ...Blog Post
Read More »Dishing the Dirt on Databases
Databases in the web world can be utilized in several different ways, some of which aren't as obvious as others. Regardless of whether you're storing newsletter subscribers, managing a photo gallery, or trying to easily manage the content of your website, a database can permit all of this. Need your end users to query files and records that you've provided ...Blog Post
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25‐point Website Checklist
Part of our normal web maintenance is to review our client's websites for the adherence to some basic design and functionality principles. Take a look at your site and see how you are doing with the following 25 point website checklist. Accessibility Site load‐time is reasonable - you will need to empty your cache and ...Blog Post
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