Swingleton Development & Design

11/26/2012

I checked the Google Analytics report for one of my web sites this morning, and I was amazed to see over 30% of the visits were on smart phones (iOS + Android). Thankfully, it was for a web site I'd just converted to responsive design. Nothing like hard numbers to drive home this fact: more and more people are looking at websites on their phones, and converting your site to a phone-friendly format is something to do sooner rather than later.

10/26/2012

All those dumb FB images that say "Comment and see what happens!" explained:
http://daylandoes.com/facebook-like-scams/
(P.S. I specifically used the sexy pic in the post to get you to read this.)

Have you noticed those 'Like if you hate cancer. Ignore if you love cancer' posts appearing a lot lately? Ever wondered why they exist? It's all a money making scam. This post discusses how they work.

03/07/2012

Responsive Web Design is the idea that, rather than building a separate "mobile" web site, one should design sites that adapt to the user's browser, be that a hi-res monitor, netbook, iPad or cell phone. Here's a great article to help explain the concept and how to do it:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flo...

03/07/2012

03/07/2012