One of my current projects just launched its first phase: JonathanHolston.org. What is currently live is a (rather thorough) landing page while we work on getting the full site designed and built. This page coordinates with a mailing that just went out.
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Congrats to Shiner International’s Joe Manus
Joe Manus, owner of Shiner International and Lineberry Design client, won the Rising Star award in the Home and Interior category from Fashion Group International. Congratulations, Joe!
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Use Appropriately Sized Images
An easy way to bloat page size and resultant load time is to use images that are larger than needed. To combat this, take the time to use appropriately sized images for your content. In WordPress, this can easily be managed by using the built in image sizes. Every image that is uploaded through WordPress [...]
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Moving Past the Fold
Design requires an understanding of both the message and the medium. While a new medium is being explored, it’s natural to borrow design concepts from known mediums. This is the case with the fold. The fold comes from the newspaper industry and refers to the line along which the paper gets folded, creating two distinct [...]
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Dencity.us Launched
Dencity.us has launched. A collaborative effort with designer Chet Loesing, read a little about the development in my portfolio.
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Design for Your Users
When I design a website for a client, we start by discussing aspects that don’t seem to be design related at all: the goals and strategies of the organization, how a website fits into those strategies, who the target audience is, and so forth. This is the context in which a design needs to function, [...]
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DeWinter Wonderland Backfilled in the Portfolio
The portfolio has been backfilled with another project: the DeWinter Wonderland landing page. Read the walkthrough of the design and features.
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Understanding WordPress Shortcodes
Shortcodes are a common way for WordPress developers to extend functionality for website managers. Those new to WordPress and web publishing can find them a little intimidating, but they’re quite simple. How Shortcodes Work Shortcodes are like keywords that tell WordPress to “replace me with code.” This allows the content writer to execute blocks of [...]
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After the Launch
The site is designed, built, and live. It’s beautiful and effective. Now what? Continually relevant websites require time and effort. Your main job managing a website is to keep the content updated, relevant, and of good quality, but you also need a way to measure your results and monitor your sites performance. I always recommend [...]
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Casseroles Atlanta Portfolio Page is Now Up
My content goal when redesigning this website was to have my most recent 3 projects and an introductory blog post. It’s been a few weeks now, I have a few more blog posts on the site and now I’ve backfilled one more project. The design and development write-up for CasserolesAtlanta.com is over in the portfolio.