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We’re proud to launch our in house made client info and proofing system. Behind a password protected front end we’ve created a custom section for each client with client news just for them, a summary of their account status, proofs of their latest web designs, if any are available and a simple feed back form for approval and feedback on these proofs.
Like we said it’s pass word protected so if you are awaiting a proof we’ll be contacting you soon (if we haven’t already) with your user name and password to the client info center,

Bubbles! Everyone loves bubbles! Okay, maybe not everyone, but I don’t think anyone hates bubbles do they?

Blue Bubbles is a free WordPress Theme from out St Petersburg Web Design team.  The central area is 900 pixels wide, with two columns inside.  It has a horizontal drop down menu.  In fact it’s our special “easy use” drop down menu which eliminates the “mouse chase” effect which make so many drop down difficult to use because the menu disappears unless the mouse isn’t in exactly the right spot.

This is the download page for this free WordPress theme and also the support page.  It’s a pretty straight forward theme, like most of our themes.  Which means it’s easy to use and customize.  Just install it like normal and edit it like one normally would.   If you do have questions, please just post them as comments below.  Links and terms after the jump . . .

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As web designers it’s important to see how your web sites and Applications will look on multiple platforms.  I recently developed a mobile web app and none of my previous mobile device preview tools included the brand new I Pad.    Well here’s one. It’s called IPad Peek.

We’ve just released our first free WordPress Template! We hope you enjoy this theme celebrating the glory of femininity.  And yes, I’m a man, do I have issues?  No, it’s just a theme I made for client through a third party.  Besides what wrong with loving women, and why are you looking at me like that?  Ahem! I’m plenty manly thank you!

Sadly when you work through a third party extra care needs to be taken as things get lost in translation, like the fact that she didn’t want anything like this.  My wife says this theme is  pretty good so we’ll use it as part of our new WordPress theme marketing efforts.  I hope I haven’t made it too feminine.

Download the Feminine Glory WordPress Template here. Preview the theme here.

Free support for this free WordPress theme!  If you have a problem, please just leave a comment below (and we’re a “Do Follow” Blog).

This free template is released under the Creative Commons – Attribution license.  No cost to you for this theme.

Not exactly the way I’d do it but he introduces many important topics. This video also demonstrates how to use the Dreamweaver CS3 interface to create CSS rules.

Sadly he was wrong about the “Page Properties” they only apply to the page that’s open, not “every page that we create from now on” so odd that he got such a basic piece of info wrong . . . We try to actually put these CSS style rules that he’s creating in a separate ” style sheet (a text file, written with proper css syntax and uses the .css extension). Once this is done you can go to every page you have or create anew and tell the page to use the style sheet.

On a professional scale we use “Dynamic Web Templates” to force pages to use certian style sheets and accept changes made to a master template. Because there’s so much more to a web site than it’s CSS.

Web Design Screen Shot

We’ve just completed a website design for a Sarasota Business. Sarasota Home Care is a small business serving Sarasota. They provide non medical home care for elderly (and other) residents. Things like, well just read the sight.

This is a 100 valid XHTML and CSS site.  It’s completely table free.  It uses horizontal lists in places.  It also applies CSS styling by using id attribute instead of the class= attribute like we usually do.  I don’t think I’ll switch to this method permanently.  It like to use the ID tag to call programmed actions often instead.  But it can be handy if your already assigning unique ID’s to elements because of programmed objects then you don’t have to clutter your code with css.  Plus that means a web designer can edit it in the future itself a programmer or myself . . .