What Matters Most To Your Website? Good Design, Copy or Both?

This article appeared in ETR's newsletter today and I could not help but to post it here.  I think it is insightful for many reasons but I also want to express my opinion on the matter as a designer who understands the importance of copy in marketing, how crucial it...
Redscale Film

Redscale Film

I've been a fan of Lomo cameras and Lomography for almost 10 years now because of their uniqueness.  Lomo cameras are simply the most fun and creative way to have fun with photography I've found.  Now logomography.com has released a new Redscale film that will tint...

Video on Flickr?

Wow Flickr now offers video! You can upload video clips up to 90 seconds in length. If you’re a pro member that is. [ad] But Why only 90 seconds? While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse....

Beware the Stock Photographer: Picking Your Pictures.

You can always tell the websites that want to be big, but aren't. How? By the sheer number of stock photographs plastered all over the design. If you've ever been to a business' website and seen one of those ubiquitous photos of a guy in a suit or a woman smiling and...

Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG and More.

When you want to put graphics on your website, you'll face an unexpected problem: what format should they be in? On their own computers, many people save pictures in Windows' default BMP (bitmap) format, but the files it creates are simply much too large to put on a...

How Your Personal Site Can Pay for Itself

Has monthly hosting fees got you down? Well cheer up! There are a few simple additions you can make to your site that can help you make your money back and then some. The easiest thing is to add ads to your site. Google’s Adsense program offers site owners a way to...

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