Topical musings on UX design, development, web content strategy, photography, and whatever else we think of.
How is your site’s content helping you grow your business and reach your target audience? You’d be amazed how many people have no idea. The success of your website doesn’t begin and end with its design. In fact, content fuels design – not the other way around. Content too often becomes an afterthought when really, it is the…
Ok, SEO is not completely dead. But it’s growing old, and it’s increasingly covered in cobwebs. Troves of snake-oil salesmen vying to sell you an SEO package would like you to believe otherwise. Here’s my take: I have sat in countless meetings with clients – prospective and current, large and small – to discuss Search…
Ever make changes to a client’s website – whether to the stylesheet or the jQuery powering the site – then send a link and ask them to refresh? It happens a fair amount for clients that love to see fresh changes. And it happens here in the Focus97 kingdom as well. I make changes to…
New video to benefit Operation Rainbow. This is from our recent trip to Cuenca, Ecuador. Video produced in collaboration with Josh Levy, with final editing assistance from Amanda Mathson. Like and Share – Operation Rainbow needs it.
Chances are, if you’re a designer or developer, you run across design sites where people tout their skills using a fun graph. Sometimes they’re simply rendered in static HTML, but the cool ones are animated using Javascript. (Yes, the animated ones are the ‘cool’ ones.)
the FACE OF Operation Rainbow This is why we do this. The story behind this little boy is what makes us stop for a second and hold our breath. His name is Roberto, and in the above image he’d been waiting in line in the hospital with his mother and father for 7 hours. With…
Mountains are not easy to climb. The summit is not easy to reach. Climbing at high altitude with a heavy pack on your back is in most every way a continually strenuous, at times grueling activity.
This post is a bit of a departure from the usual photography/web development/tech ramblings, but so be it. note: click any image for a larger view I decided… …That it would be a good idea to go against summitpost.org’s, as well as the park ranger’s advice not to venture up Horsetail Falls in the winter. …
What is this term DPI (dots per inch), really? It’s a measure of how many dots will be printed per inch. Keyword: printed. DPI, contrary to many ideas around it, does absolutely nothing when it’s set in Photoshop for images that are displayed on the web. Take a hypothetical image of 100 x 100 pixels…
The Problem: You have a 3-tiered navigational hierarchy, like above. If you click on mainPage-a, you only want the 3 child Pages to show. But if you click to dive into Page1, you still want to show the three child Pages of mainPage-a, but also want Page1’s subpages to show, but ONLY those subpages. For…