Nowadays, everyone’s got a web site. But not everyone has (or needs, or can afford) a professionally designed web site. If you simply cannot afford to hire a web designer right now, don’t sweat it. There are a few things you can do to make sure that your web site is at least not shooting [...]

Small business owners, and especially lawyers, if you want a web site, be prepared to shell out a bit of money for it. Just as you would any other service. Somehow, the web design industry has become cheapened and skill and talent and expertise are not appreciated. Until it’s too late.

As you know, our focus is on web design using WordPress and CMS Made Simple. The last few sites we’ve developed (and one we will be launching soon) are based on CMS-MS. Why? Well, it lives up to its name, for one thing. And there are some great plugins out there. Some that fill a [...]

Since the devs over at ZenPhoto moderate all newbie posts and they didn’t like some problems I was having with the upgrade, they decided to be a bit childish and not let any of my posts through. Even the one that solved the upgrade issue. So we can see from this that their egos are [...]

A few days ago, I featured A Baker’s Dozen Online Portfolio Services for the starving artists among you who wanted to get your portfolios off the ground. Today, I am showcasing some beautiful photography web sites, some self-hosted, others using an online, web-based service. Each is beautiful in its own way. Enjoy. Alberto Oviedo Bottle [...]

The American Bar Association recently unveiled its shiny new web site. They even changed domains from abanet.org to americanbar.org. The redesign was a year in the making and long overdue. The old site, while functional and familiar, likely had been added to and cobbled together and was the Internet equivalent of the Clampett’s old pickup [...]

I belong to several web design groups on the net and one of the biggest questions from newcomers is, How Do I Create a Portfolio? They are wise to understand the portfolio of a creative or photographer is their ticket to landing jobs and building their reputation. What you put in your portfolio is, of [...]

I’m a firm believer in knowing where that link is going to take me before I click on it. That’s why I like to use document icons to indicate what kind of document is behind a download link. For client sites, it’s a matter of creating a paragraph style that inserts an icon when that [...]

Are YOU using the most of your valuable Facebook company page? This timely article shows you how to leverage it all for best effect. It’s not always about cool design; sometimes, you just have to get inside your customers’ heads.

Remember the following when working with the z-index and stacking order: 1. Z-index only works on relative or absolute positioned elements. 2. The default z-index is zero.

On February 10, Facebook announced major changes to the design and functionality of its Pages. They now more closely resemble individual user Profiles (whether that’s good or bad, I’ll leave for you to decide). The upshot of all this is that these changes are intended (I imagine) to make the FaceBook user experience the same [...]

Now you wouldn’t normally need to display an excerpt from a page’s description, would you? I didn’t think so either. But apparently there is a need. And when there’s a need, we aim to please. We had a client who wants to display custom excerpts from a page’s child pages on the parent page with [...]

While we here at Pixelita Designs prefer to “roll our own” hand coded themes for our clients, there are times when it might be good to start with a solid WordPress theme. Maybe money’s tight and you can’t afford to hire a web designer. Maybe you as a web designer have a need for a [...]

Since I missed WordCamp Houston, held back in August of this year, when I learned about WordCamp Austin and that I would not have to work at BigLaw that weekend, I signed up immediately. This was my first WordCamp and it was Austin’s first WordCamp. I’d heard some complaints about the Houston WordCamp, that it [...]

This is a great piece of code from a friend of mine, Milorad Ivovic. He’s since ripped his site apart, and I was looking for this code snippet for a project I’m working on currently. Thought I’d go ahead and post it (I know Milo won’t mind) for anyone else who finds it useful. It’s [...]