How To Choose A Website Design Company
You have less than eight seconds to create a positive impression on a visitor to your website when they first land on your website. Be very selective when it comes time to choose the website design firm for your website project.
Here are some suggestions/tips to consider when...
SEO Vs. PPC Uncovered
After all the hard work you put into designing and launching your website, now you get to the even harder part: getting people to visit.
A website can be a powerful tool for driving more awareness of your business and convincing people to buy, but it can’t do any of that...
A Few CSS Snippits That I Can’t Live Without
CSS snippets are a great way to save time while developing CSS on your site. If you frequently find yourself using the same batch of CSS, it’s probably a good idea to save them to some sort of snippet library. If you don’t already have a library of CSS snippets, here are a...
Designing Creatively in a Fast Paced Work Environment
Maintaining creativity in a fast-paced work environment can sometimes be akin to a doctor operating on a plane in severe turbulence. For most, creativity doesn’t subscribe to the “9 to 5” and certainly not in situations where time is of the essence.
Aside from...
Drupal Dashboards
Dashboards!
Dashboards are user control panels installed on a site to help the user easily edit and maintain their site with little to no knowledge of web programming. We can create these dashboards for our clients using the content management system known as...
Houston Business Journal’s Largest Web Designers
Congratulations to eMUNICATIONS’ Clients
Thank you, clients of eMUNICATIONS! Because of your belief in our ability to provide compelling, well-designed websites, eMUNICATIONS has ranked 19th on the Houston Business Journal’s Book of Lists for the Largest...
Drupal PCI Compliance Issues With User Login Form
Here’s another quick one,
We recently had a client report that they received a PCI violation because Drupal login forms do not feature the “autocomplete=off” attribute. This could be fixed with a custom template, or hacking core (!!!) but I whipped up this...
Our Artwork Featured on MTV’s Real World: San Diego
If you’ve watched the latest season of MTV’s Real World, you’ve seen a logo in the fish tank created by yours truly. I’ve been designing for Reliant Aquarium since they first established themselves as a business about 5 years ago and have had the...
The Horrible Hat-trick: 3 Terrible Fonts That Should Always Be Avoided
They say art is in the eye of the beholder; as much as I want to agree, there’s still no excuse for ‘terrible’ typography. Among the worst offenders are the following fonts:
Comic Sans is essentially the stereotype for bad typography, and few fonts have ever...
Development of a CCK Webform Module
Here at eMUNICATIONS, we love to play paintball. The game has a lot to offer: teamwork, adrenaline, exercise, and good old-fashioned sunlight (something usually alien to the eMUNICATIONS team).
Naturally, we also like good quality websites (something usually alien to the...
Best Page Builders For WordPress
If you want to create stylish posts and pages for your WordPress website, then a page builder plugin is the best way to do so. The best page builder plugins add a new content editor interface to your website that lets you do so much than what’s currently possible with the...
White Space Is Not Your Enemy
The term “White Space” is often misused; many believe that it refers to any space in a design that’s white. White space actually refers to the “negative space” of a composition. It’s not simply “blank” or “unused”...
Login issues? Check your domain for underscores
I recently migrated a WordPress installation to a new site, and when demoing the new install, I found I was unable to log in. I checked the usual places, the database had the correct URL, there were no funky redirects, and I disabled ALL the plugins. This led to 30 minutes of...
Form API introduction for the Houston Drupal Users Group
As part of our commitment to the Drupal community, we’ve been leading demonstrations and explanations of parts of the Drupal system. This week, we covered an introduction to the Form API.
Form API Basics:
Why should I use Form API instead of just printing the form?...
The Ultimate Guide to Important Pages In Website
This post will answer a very common question that most small business owners have:
What are the most important pages on a website?
We are a website design and Development company in Houston, We often get questions from our small business owners: What are the most important...
Key Elements Of UX/UI Design
Most people interact with the Internet daily, but not everyone experiences the Web in the same way or for the same reasons.
That’s why a great UX (user experience) is key for many businesses. If you’ve ever deleted an app or refused to shop online at a certain site again,...
Understanding Your Role in the Design Process: Problems, Not Solutions
In terms of aesthetics, a design is, by and large, a tool to convey a message to your users. Are you a large company? Are you a professional? Do you have a sense of humor? Or simply (and most importantly), “What is it that you do?” These are all questions that...
Build a Better Paintball Website
Here at eMUNICATIONS, we love to play paintball. The game has a lot to offer: teamwork, adrenaline, exercise, and good old-fashioned sunlight (something usually alien to the eMUNICATIONS team).
Naturally, we also like good quality websites (something usually alien to the...
jQuery Quickie For Zebra Highlighting In Tables
If you haven’t taken the time to check out this framework you absolutely must do so now. jQuery allows you to accomplish so much more with so much little. It may be a little arcane to look at the first time, but after a little research, you’ll wonder how you lived...
CMS for High Schools: Getting it Together
The biggest advantage of using Drupal for a high school website is the ability for the staff to make edits without any previous web building experience. However, this is also the biggest disadvantage.
The root of the problem is a lack of communication between editors. The...
