Since owning a mac and seeing my type render nicely in my browsers I’ve been very frustrated with how type looks in Windows. I was checking on one of our sites the other day to see how it was looking in Explorer and was especially horrified at some italic text.
I’ve done some digging and for those of you on a Windows system there is hope.
For XP ...
It’s important to be found by search engines—no question, but it’s more important that your customers or potential customer find what they’re looking for first and foremost. Make sure the content of your website is accurate, up to date and easy to understand. Make sure the words and pictures that they are ...
One of the cool things about being a developer is that I get a lot of input into exactly how things work.
One of the downsides of being a developer is that I get a lot of input into exactly how things work.
Whenever I’m not working on client projects, I tend to spend time working on Inflight and Parade, fixing bugs and making changes wherever we feel that ...
We’ve made an office purchase that has revolutionized our lunch hour: a sandwich press!
While living overseas a few years ago, I noticed that nearly every household had one of these brilliant contraptions. I vowed to purchase one when I returned home to Canada. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen as efficiently as I had planned. When, for reasons unknown to me, the idea popped back into my head earlier ...
“creativity shouldn’t be compart- mentalized with certain types of people or fields of work”
Creativity shouldn’t be compartmentalized with certain types of people or fields of work. It’s needed in every job, at every level, for every function and it can be the key to success in today’s rapidly changing world…perhaps now more than ever. Process improvement, problem solving, recruiting, retaining and motivating employees, decision ...
We’ve never really thought of ourselves as minimal designers, but we were happy to find that our own site was mentioned in a list of inspirational minimal designs on a recent post on Web Designer Wall. The article features some of our favorite designs in recent history, so we’re pretty pumped to be included.
I’ve been trying to figure out the right To-do work-flow for quite some time now. I’ve tried several different options including, Outlook, Entourage, Basecamp to-do, a few different iPhone apps and many others. A few of the apps I’ve tried have been close, but nothing seems to stick with the way I go about my life. Some of the desktop applications work well, but the hardest tasks ...
lift will be featured in Volume One of The Creative Unity a publication whose mission is “to feature only the best designs, designers, and design studios in order to create a book that shows off supreme talent while creating an inspirational tool for designers from around the world”.
We’re really excited to have been selected for this first edition of The Creative Unity. When I first heard about the ...
I’m happy to have joined the fine folks here at Lift. It’s still very new and exciting.
So, a little bit about myself. I’ve been building websites professionally for about 9 years now so I’m not exactly the new kid on the block.
“Why should you regularly login to your CMS? Keeping the content on your site current and fresh adds credibility to your organization and minimizes frustration for the visitors…”
Lift develops the majority of our websites with our own custom-built content management system. We’re big believers in CMS-powered sites and strongly encourage our clients to use their CMS for all its worth. It’s big on convenience, portability and ...