In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about web design.
Back in mid-2008, Kyle from JoomlaPraise.com approached me about writing a guest post. He was trying to promote AdminPraise, a new design for the Joomla administrator area. I was sceptical. Very. So sceptical that I asked him to basically defend…
Joomla Day Netherlands took place this weekend and by all accounts it was a great success. There was the official release for Joomla’s new Resources Directory, a presentation with useful security tips by Brian Teeman, and a really good overview…
This is a guest blog post from Cyrus Patten. Joomla can create powerful, robust and stunning templates. In addition to the flexibility of the templates, many of them dynamically change to fit your content and extensions. This is a great…
This is a guest blog post by Steve Moseley of Hannisdal Express. He previously blogged here on alledia.com, discussing his new site www.simliteraturemedia.org. That project led him to discover a problem with Search Engine Friendly URLs and IE6. This post…
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com asks whether admin templates are worth the effort. Over at JoomlaPraise we make Joomla templates and extensions and have recently released AdminPraise, an…
This is a straight-forward tutorial explaining how you can place different header or logo images on different pages of your site. For example, your sports site may need a baseball player on top of the baseball section, a golf player…
Paul Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” is a classic guide to designing easy-to-use websites. In the book he makes a pretty compelling case for using tabs instead of dropdowns. His prime example is Amazon.com who lead the way in successfully…
Admit it – you’ve been making changes to a live site and something went wrong. You screwed up the site and spent an hour or more fixing it while visitors kept coming and kept wondering what on earth was going…
We’ve had a 24-hour make-over on Alledia. Throughout today we’re using the SimSun font for all headlines on the site. Its made possible by a cool technology called sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), created by Mike Davidson. It solves…
Its almost common place now to say that newspapers are finished and that all they can look forward to is eeking out a living online, while their paper edition die a slow death. This is true for most newspapers and…