I’m an old hand at reading site stats going back to when I crunched log files with analog, then parsed them with Clicktraks to adding javascript tags from urchin (now Google Analytics). But, the real question comes down to what do you with the site stats once you have them. [...]

If you aren’t a web star or can’t code like a web star, you can at least buy code from a web star. Eric Meyer now has his very own CSS Sculptor. This new Dreamweaver compatible tool creates standards-compliant two and three column layouts from a menus driven product and [...]

Vitamin has four good tips to remember when redesigning your home page. 60 percent of users enter the average site from somewhere besides the home page, so focus on consistent site wide navigation. Start out by designing a standard text page to establish the style and usability of the design [...]

A List Apart has some great articles in it’s most recent issues covering dealing with clients and staying fresh. Kevin Cornell gives us a list of tips to stay motivated to create and Jack Zeal helps us figure out the right design metaphors to use when talking with clients so [...]

Seth Godin has a great post on his blog asking is good enough enough?. Instead of good enough he says we should redefine the objective to be “makes some people uncomfortable, changes the entire competitive landscape and is truly remarkable in that many of the key people we reach feel [...]

Photo portfolio sites are moving beyond the simple Photoshop/Fireworks exported images thrown onto a page to where the site should showcase the photographers vision and personality while being cutting edge in order to attract new clients. Layers Magazine looks at three distinct approaches to photographers web portfolios. My favorite photo [...]

When I first started designing websites one of the biggest problems I had was creating forms because I had no clue when it came to programming and servers. If I had access to a service like Wufoo I might not have had to learn vbscript, php and cdonts. You can [...]

Jakob Nielsen’s words were the bible of my web design (and I take an authoritative view of the Bible) when I first started putting web pages together back in the late ’90s. I have very dog-eared copy of his book Designing Web Usability and read every article on his web [...]

Jeffrey Zeldman cries out for companies to create web divisions solely responsible for their web sites instead of placing them in IT or marketing/communications. It used to be that web sites were created in IT departments because of the technology components, but most companies have moved the web creators over [...]

Adobe has a new online color tool called kuler. It’s got some pretty nice options.