Web Design and Web Development Help

Stuck in a color rut?  Wondering how to spice up a design?  Is color your enemy rather than your friend?

For many web designers and developers, coming up with the most eye-pleasing color scheme is often the most difficult aspect of a new project. This article gives all designers 25 useful links to explore so that you never have to struggle with a color palette again.

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Recently, I visited a friend who volunteered to help me with some database issues. Database…nothing makes me feel like a mental midget quite like database design. But, my friend is a database Einstein. Bob is a highly paid professional consultant. When our session was over he asked me to return the favor by critiquing his new website. I was horrified by what I saw. And when he told me how much he paid for the site, I really saw red! I was embarrassed to be a member of a profession where someone could pass off crap like this and call it a professionally designed website. It’s just plain malpractice! Since we live in a world where anyone can throw up a site and call themselves a “Web Designer” let’s be honest with ourselves, folks! Are you a crack designer, or just a crackpot?

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Having to change 50 different pages to fix a link in your menu or adding a menu item in your footer can be quite a daunting task and quite frankly, not something you will want to do often. Using includes is a simple method of removing common parts of your code into a separate file and including them where you need it. It’s very simple to implement and you’ll be left wondering why you didn’t think of this when you were coding that big site.

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