All websites need content, that's a given. But how do you attack the huge task of writing content for a new site? Here are some tips that I share with clients that help them get over this hurdle. In a regular website project you'll go through different phases such as discovery, information architecture, design, buildout, review, and launch. There are specific things you can work on in each of them to make content development more manageable. Read More »

CMS' have gotten sick. Sick from feature bloat and just general overload. Their main focus is not creating and managing content anymore; in fact this is almost a forgotten part of what they are meant to do. And I don't think it's anyones fault in particular: clients have needs and concerns that their CMS be able to do X, Y, and Z, and developers have needs to get paid. So it's understandable that feature creep just inevitably happens in a CMS and that focus gets lost easily. Read More »

What's all the hubbub about mobile first mobileness?? While it is a hot new term, It's not just a hot new term. It's much, much more than that. It's a whole new way of thinking about users, content, web design, and the lot. Do a Google search for 'mobile first' and you'll find somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,520,000,000 results. That's a lot of results. Read More »