You Get What You Pay For
Websites are no exception for the saying, ‘You Get What You Pay For.’ There are many ways of designing and developing websites. However, there are certain standards that come into play when designing and developing for the web, and anything outside of those standards are, unfortunately, a waste of money.
Toward the beginning of the year, we quoted a project for a prospective client who was interested in keeping the budget to a minimum while still offering a fair amount of features. After discussing the site as a whole we provided an estimate to handle the project, keeping in mind the budget that the client wished to stay within.
Check Your Spelling
Being a designer, it’s hard for me to look at billboards, advertisements, and almost everything of a design nature without creating some sort of opinion. Now the opinions can be good or bad, depending on the execution of what I’m looking at. I find it hard to flip through a magazine with tons of poorly designed ads and ignore the fact that the ads are poorly designed. ‘Design’ is so engrained in my life, that I look at everything with design in mind. It’s almost like imagining your life without your cell phone or car. Once you have the tools, they begin to make an impact on your life.
Building WordPress Outside of the Root Folder
We use WordPress as a Content Management System constantly here at J Taylor Design. There are many perks to using WordPress that can help to make your site search engine friendly, as well as really easy to update and maintain. In most cases, if we’re moving the hosting of a client, we just build the new WordPress site in the root folder of the new host, then push the site live when we’re all finish. That’s really nice as we don’t have to worry about there being issues with transferring the site and making sure everything is hooked up properly, as it should be ready to roll out of the gate because we built it right on the platform.
Transferring Songs from Your iPhone
I ran into a small problem a couple days ago. I had purchased an album on my iPhone while I was on the way back from a client meeting. When I got back I wanted to transfer the purchased album to my iTunes on my computer that way I could enjoy the lovely sounds at the office as well. When I plugged my phone into the computer and tried to drag the purchased album to my iTunes, it wouldn’t let me. I wasn’t too surprised as all of the iPhone / iPod devices are setup so that you can’t drag and drop your friends music from their devices onto your computer to try and avoid paying for the music. I tried a couple quick things until I found the solution.
Canon T2i Video Test : Knoebel’s
We recently upgraded our digital SLR to the new Canon T2i which shoots full HD video. I cannot express how awesome this camera is. Not that our old Canon Rebel XT was bad or anything… but with the huge back screen, some modified functionality, and then the full HD video on top of that, it’s hard to not be impressed with this camera. Over Memorial Day weekend I took a trip with family to Knobel’s Amusement Park which is in Elysburg, PA. Knobel’s is a really old style amusement park where it almost feels like your stepping back in time. Regardless, I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to take the new video functionality of the camera for a spin. After the break we have what we ended up with after mixing the video together and dropping an audio track on top. Other than that, we didn’t modify the colors or any of the video as we wanted this to be an accurate example as to what this camera can do.
