Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications at all, putting [...]

I’m absent this week for my Technology 4 Teachers’ class, due to my involvement in the METC 2010 conference. In my absence, a staff member of UCO’s IT department will be coming to my classes tomorrow to share an hour long “Introduction to the SmartBoard” presentation with my students. In collecting a few links about [...]

Here are a couple of social icon sets that you can feel free to download and use on your site. If you don’t mind, post a link to your site where you use the icons so we can see them in action.
Here is a preview of the Bubble set:

Here is a preview of the Gears [...]

The Structure Theme, designed by Muku Solutions and Jeff Milone I recently came across, and I instantly became a fan of it before even beginning to use it. I’ve been using it on one of my other sites, and I believe, with some minor CSS changes, it makes a great theme for bloggers who are [...]

The Structure Theme, designed by Muku Solutions and Jeff Milone I recently came across, and I instantly became a fan of it before even beginning to use it. I’ve been using it on one of my other sites, and I believe, with some minor CSS changes, it makes a great theme for bloggers who are [...]

Students in my “Technology 4 Teachers” class watched and reflected on the EduTopia Digital Generation Youth Profile video for Cameron last week.

I wrote the following as a comment on one of my student’s blogs:
 My favorite quotation from your post was, “If more students like Cameron could find a way to use their technology as more of [...]

Finally, presenting the winner of theme battle #3. Tasty Showcase was a template designed by Brad of DemusDesign, who also coded it in XHTML/CSS/JS. I then took the coded template and ported it to WordPress. It has a ton of widgetized areas, including widgetized footers (plural).

Read on to see the features, including [...]

We’re glad to announce that all of our themes (yep, every single one of them) have now been updated to the latest version of our WooFramework. Version 2 of the WooFramework (which we first previewed last month), includes a complete re-design of the theme option’s panel, as well as the inclusion of a new basis [...]

Redesigning a website is a big job (needless to say) and should be handled with care. Many of us with a portfolio, blog or other website have probably thought about a redesign or at least know we need one. For many designers, though, that redesign never comes. As big and important as it [...]

One of the best ways to get new traffic to your posts is by “pitching it to other bloggers.” Using this method, you are either emailing, commenting, or tweeting to a more popular or similarly-known blogger about one of your posts. Ideally, it is in a similar niche, or there just isn’t any point in [...]