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July 2014

Web Design for Wearable Tech

The tech world is buzzing about wearable tech, like the Apple Watch. But what does this mean for responsive and adaptive web designers? It means simplify, simplify, simplify. Check out Thomas Bogner’s “iWatch” concept (below) designed for Mashable last year. I think you’ll see just how simple web design for wearable tech is going to …

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July 2014

Your Sidebar is Garbage

Dumping a bunch of stuff into a sidebar doesn’t make you a blogger. Nor does it make your website or blog more useful. Ditch your sidebar. It’s garbage. I read this article on Medium a while ago when we were building our new website. As we built it, the goal was clear: simple is beautiful. …

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July 2014

The Process behind our Rebrand

JDM Digital is proud to announce we’ve launched a new flat, metro-inspired brand and website. Since our founding in 2006, JDM’s brand has undergone just a handful of real rebrands, but never anything as drastic as this one. Here’s a little background on the design process that got us from there to here. Flat & …

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June 2014

Batch Process Images in Adobe Bridge

Perhaps the most overlooked program included in the Adobe Creative Suite, Bridge offers some powerful tools for photographers and designers to “batch” process large groups of files using a fairly simple process. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

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February 2014

Breaking Up With Your Website

Breaking up is hard, especially when it’s with your own website. You’ve watched it both flourish and struggle. You have invested much more into it than just time and money, but maybe it’s time for something new. Your business has grown and your needs have changed. But how do you know it’s time to dump …

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June 2013

Life Below the Fold: Is Scrolling Bad?

There’s a lot of people who think information on a website below the 600px height (aka “the fold”) is as good as gone. That simply isn’t the case, and I should know. I’m a copyright notice.

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September 2012

Developer VS Designer

To a web developer, the problem is a clumsy stacking of concurrently loading processes, interfering with the smooth functioning of JavaScript. To a web designer, the problem is the idea sucks.

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September 2012

Know Thy Website Audience

To put it bluntly, if you build a site for everyone, it will appeal to no one. You have to know thy audience and speak to them (specifically) with every layout, font and color choice. In the discovery phase of almost every project we complete, we ask clients, “Who is your target audience?” More often …

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August 2012

2 Great Responsive CSS Frameworks

Who has time to tinker with 22 responsive frameworks? Seriously! Here are two of our favs.

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July 2012

slabText, Web Font Fun

When I first started working professionally in Web design, web-safe fonts were limited to the super-basic Arial, Verdana, Times, etc. How I hated being tied to these boring, over-used fonts. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way since those days. Cufon & Google Fonts have made web-safe fonts a relic and with a little cleaver math, …

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June 2012

PayPal’s Website Redesign – Finally!

Just a week ago, PayPal.com got a much needed redesign.

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May 2012

4 Tips for a Better Business Website

To a small company, customers aren’t just another cog in the mechanism, they’re the lifeblood of the business. Here are 4 simple tips for “going the extra mile” with your website to save your customer’s time and make your site more enjoyable and more productive. 1. Go mobile Mobile is no longer the future. It’s …

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