Headspace Halifax Website Design

See the trees for the forest

Posted on June 25th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design 1 Comments

This post is for many of the designers who work on websites - whether exclusively (in the case of web designers) or occasionally (in the case of designers working in communications firms). Most of us are adept at creating good looking design templates. By that I mean a; header, footer,…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 5: Accessibility

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under 2 Comments

1. Know your audience
2. Content
3. Content Management Systems
4. Hosting and Domain
5. Bandwidth
6. Web standards
7. Search Engine Optimization
8. Browser Testing
9. Accessibility
10. Design/Usability
11. Open Source or Proprietary?
12. Flash or HTML?

The previous…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 4: SEO

Posted on June 01st, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business, Marketing 1 Comments

1. Know your audience
2. Content
3. Content Management Systems
4. Hosting and Domain
5. Bandwidth
6. Web standards
7. Search Engine Optimization
8. Browser Testing
9. Accessibility
10. Design/Usability
11. Open Source or Proprietary?
12. Flash or HTML?

The previous…Read More

Personification in advertising

Posted on May 29th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Marketing 2 Comments

This post is not meant to be particularly insightful or surprising—just a simple observation that may generate discussion. I don’t claim to be an expert in advertising, though I did work in an ad agency for a couple of years, and had some fun coming up with headlines while throwing…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 3: Web Standards

Posted on May 24th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under 0 Comments

1. Know your audience
2. Content
3. Content Management Systems
4. Hosting and Domain
5. Bandwidth
6. Web standards
7. Search Engine Optimization
8. Browser Testing
9. Accessibility
10. Design/Usability
11. Open Source or Proprietary?
12. Flash or HTML?

The previous post covered topics…Read More

What is good web design?

Posted on April 20th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design 9 Comments

The argument is often made that web design and print design are very different from one another, like in the excellent post by Jeffrey Zeldman. Although this is true, I thought it would be interesting to look at how they are the same.…Read More

Not all Flash Designers are created equal

Posted on April 08th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Development 1 Comments

It can be said that Flash is a niche area of web development. Generally speaking, “typical” web developers (and by typical, I mean developers who build websites using web scripting languages, like PHP or Ruby, build databases with MySQL, and mark-up the front-end with HTML, and style it with CSS)…Read More