Standards

Templates don’t work. Plain and simple, but why? Templates are often times much less expensive than a custom design (if not free), and when you purchase a template, you see right away exactly what your dollar buys you. What’s more, templates usually look really cool. That sounds pretty good, right?Wrong. Ok, those things are true, but to what extent should they really influence your decision? When you pay for website design, you’re not paying for nice graphics, fancy JavaScript effects, or even a powerful backend - those things exist everywhere, often times for free.

What you are paying for is the knowhow to put all of those elements together into a finished product that truly reflects your business and capitalizes on technologies in a way to best serve your business and your clients. You may get lucky and find a script or a template that looks just the way you want it, or works exactly how you pictured it, but chances are you’re going to have to compromise at some point or another unless you have some professional guidance.

Disclaimer: We are a web design firm, so our opinion here is going to be slightly biased; however, still worthwhile.

Great. Another post about the iPhone. Don’t worry, this isn’t my ranting (dis)approval of Apple’s new device, but rather a sad realization after my first encounter with one last evening.

Since the dawn of time, or so it seems, web developers have been required to be well versed in both programming, and juggling. Now I don’t think that many developers would have a very good chance at making a living as street performers, but we are cursed blessed with the obligation to make our sites display properly on different browsers. While we can all rejoice in the fact that IE 5 on the Mac OS has become an increasingly smaller headache, Apple just threw us another curveball.

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