by Gery Teague | May 4, 2016 | Technology, Uncategorized, Web Design
Why do some programmers argue for old solutions like sprite sheets when they are far worse? Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t use sprite sheets.With the rise in the popularity and use of new web technologies like html5, css3, and ecma5.1-based JavaScript,...
by noelhenneman | Apr 25, 2016 | Technology, Web Design
Development tools for responsive web design are getting better all the time. Unfortunately they are not always obvious. Recently one of my co-workers showed me how Google Chrome has a great tool for showing how a web page responds to changing view port sizes. Well I...
by noelhenneman | Dec 28, 2015 | Web Design, Wordpress
Years ago I set up a personal website using the content management system (CMS) Drupal, in part to evaluate Drupal. While I was happy in general with Drupal, it had some issues. I also have set up many WordPress sites and believe that WordPress is much easier to...
by noelhenneman | Nov 4, 2015 | Web Design
At HB Design, web developers are given Photoshop PSD files that were created by Web Designers to code. This blog includes some Photoshop tips to make working with those PSD files easier.Selecting layersDesigns often have many layers, sometimes in nested layer groups. ...
by noelhenneman | Oct 12, 2015 | Technology, Web Design
Just recently we had a client ask how to optimize photos for the web. I have a post describing the steps which you can read (Web Page Load Times and Image Optimization). That post describes the steps: copy, crop, resize, and optimize. The “crop” step...
by Noel Henneman | Jul 30, 2015 | Culture, Design, HB Design, Inspiration, Web Design
Fatherhood.So, I recently became a father. Which has inspired me to look closely at my life, and start asking a lot of questions. I’m finding that many of those questions have parallels that relate to work as a graphic designer – a job that requires both “careful...
