I have been designing website for years, and often I start from a PSD "Photoshop File" to set a design, get client approval then I use it to pull elements like photos, logos, icons and patterns. Normally this works great, when I just open up the layer and hover over the pattern to get the [...]
When making the decision on how to build your new website, you must consider what the first thing everyone will see when they first get there. It's the first impression that matters, and how people decide what there next steps are. I have made a video with some best practices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBYnTEX3Qno&feature=em-upload_owner
As an experienced website viewer, you are often finding yourself discovering lots of new methods that developers are introducing. One of the new methods that designers are bringing to the table are Single Page Scroller, or long home pages. These have gained a lot of traction over the past few years, as the web crawlers [...]
Let's say you are building your new Wordpress Website and your looking to "turn it off". Normally this is not as simple as flipping a switch with most other websites, until now when you can just add a simple plugin and be able to turn your site on and off with a handy "Coming Soon" [...]
After a few long discussion with my father in law about the many uses of my DJI Phantom Quadcopter. He approached me on a mission to fly over his farm property to see if anyone was encroaching on his property. I fired up the Drone with my new set of Fat Shark goggles and flew [...]
I spent the weekend up at Windham NY shooting and racing at the preview to the world cup Down Hill Race. I took the Drone up for a flight grabbing shots of the bike jumps, kickers and long runs. Hope you guys enjoy.
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Years back we would only see 1 or 2 background images for websites, normally a solid color or maybe a simple repeded pattern that would run the width of the website. Eventually as the our ISP speeds increased we developers would start making these images more complex and larger. Now we are running an average speed of 8 megs a second on download, that could mean a 5000x35000px image could be loaded inside a web-page over 16times in one second. So what does this mean for web designers? Much more flexible high quality images in your website! Yahhhh!!! So the same high quality photo you take with your iphone 5 can be be displayed on your webpage at the qualtiy it deserves with little impact on the viewers overall page loading. Super cool. So why do I speak about these as background images, not just placed in-line images? Well the only way to really enjoy large images is by making them flexible with the page size. As “foreground images” will do this with a percentage style attached them, you can’t enjoy those little details you look for in high quality photos. […]
My buddy Marc Dean, sent me over this link about how the laws are now getting effected: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/faa-drone-ban_n_4921944.html
When I first discovered drone photography I was impressed but very skeptical. Then remembered my entrancement of digital photography over 10 years ago when my professors introduce us to very bad Nikon digital cameras. With the advancements in GPS, digital photography, and easy to produce these amazing devices such as smart phones and tablets. The [...]
Have you ever had the pleasure of a contractor that you love so much you look for work for them to do? Imaging your web designer as a home builder and even though the house is done, you still plan on doing work. This is why the web designer you hire should always be ready [...]
