Blog Archives: Website Development
A t-shirt company raising money for cancer
My name is Sean Hurley, I am an Online Marketing Professional living in Toronto Ontario. I started Dynamic Clothing a few years back (didn’t take off as well as I thought), and still have a good amount of inventory left over. I’m currently participating in the Ontario Ride to Conquer Cancer (read all about it), and need to raise $2,500 to be eligible to take part [...]
How fast is your website?
How quickly does your website load? Are you running a website that has a lot of images or a lot of javascript? If you notice your website taking longer than 5 seconds to load, you might want to consider looking into alternative solutions to improve site speed. You may not think it’s an import feature of your website, but if [...]
Is your site designed for the right browser?
Now that there are a handful of really great web browsers in the market, we need to be more aware as site owners and website designers that a website is not complete until we have done extensive cross-browser testing. How should you start? Simple, open your website in all of the major browsers; Chrome, IE (IE 6 too!), FireFox, Safari, [...]
When should I translate my website?
This has been a question on my mind for quiet some time, and I’ve been asked more and more from my clients, if its time to translate their website. Again, Google Analytics enables website owners to identify if they need to translate their content, before the need to speak with a freelance consultant. If you go to your Google Analytics [...]
Should I have a mobile site?
If you had asked me a few years ago if I thought having a mobile site was important, I would have replied “no”. After the release of smartphones, we had to change the way we were designing websites both in content and graphic weight. If you had a website that was too image heavy, or wasn’t coded to be viewed properly on [...]
Drupal 7 is closing the gap on wordpress
Over the past 6 years I’ve been a proud advocate for the open source development called “Drupal“. I have been able to build my own personal brand, develop third-party applications, execute full scale eCommerce websites, and train the most basic users to manage their own websites content. What I have learned more recently is that the most common CMS (Content Management System) [...]
Built an eCommerce website in 48hrs
After cleaning up my storage a few weeks ago I realized I still had a bunch of inventory left over from my first start-up company Dynamic Clothing. So I decided to learn how to build an ecommerce website in 48hrs. Link: Dynamic Clothing
The blog of Sean Hurley
Welcome to the blog of Sean Hurley where I’ll be will posting weekly/monthly on some of my findings in online marketing tips, graphic design, and website design trends for 2010. Here are some of my favorite blogs: http://ffffound.com http://www.smashingmagazine.com http://www.webdesignerdepot.com http://spyrestudios.com http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk
Great example of an Error page
Having an error page can be a great marketing tool when your site decides to crash. Many website fail to forget about this small but large page on a website. Having this page can make the decision making process even easier for the website visitor. If they only have 1 or 2 options from this error page they can be [...]
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
Are you experienced in html or php? No, and you own a site with little budget. Try using an industry leader in text editors to take care of your website pages, content editing, other html issues. A WYSIWYG or “what you see is what you get” text editor is your solution for all website content editing needs. Write full html [...]
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