Headspace Halifax Website Design

A good process can work wonders for your design

Posted on July 07th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Business 6 Comments

In my experience, I’ve noticed that with traditional design studios, there seems to be more care put into the design process. Sometimes this process can be lacking when a firm specializes in the web. Perhaps this is because web firms have more to think about, there’s SEO, analytics, and the…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

Lessons learned from designing truck lightning

Posted on January 10th, 2008 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business 4 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

How many design options do you show?

Posted on November 28th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Business 0 Comments

Last week on Boagworld, Paul Boag interviewed Andy Budd from Clear Left, a well-respected web design agency in England.
Andy commented on how they do things differently than many agencies in that they only offer one design to clients. You can read the interview transcript…Read More

Three isn’t company

Posted on October 26th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Design, Business 0 Comments

There are three kinds of service. Good, fast and cheap. Pick any two. You know the rule right?

This is easy to remember when we offer others our services, however it’s easy for us to forget when we have to commission others to do our work. How does this work…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 2: Hosting, Domain and Bandwidth

Posted on October 16th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business 2 Comments

This is part two of a six-part series. It is meant to give someone relatively new (or simply overwhelmed) to the web the information they need to commission a website for their company. It is broken up into 12 bite sized pieces:

  1. Know your audience
  2.…Read More

12 things you need to know before commissioning a website - part 1

Posted on July 25th, 2007 | By Kyle Racki Filed under Business 0 Comments

This is part one of a six-part series. It is meant to give someone relatively new (or simply overwhelmed) to the web the information they need to commission a website for their company. It is broken up into 12 bite sized pieces:

1. Know your audience
2. Content
3. Content Management Systems
…Read More