When deadlines call and you need to squeeze out some more creative juices, these three tips to a successful web site design will have you back on track in no time. Read on to find out how these three simple things can help you create something that looks fantastic, delivers your client’s message, and keeps things fresh and creative.

So I wrote an iPhone application for a client using v2.2.1 of the iPhone SDK. (The client did not want to go OS v3.0 yet.) I needed to give a user the capability of taking and uploading a picture with the built-in camera or uploading a picture from the photo library on the phone. Seems [...]

WebSight Design understands how important search engine optimization (SEO) is to your site. Having bad SEO is like opening your shop in the middle of the desert, and forbidding people from having your phone number and address.  Not much business is going to happen that way!  But buyer beware, there are many different SEO scams [...]

In the beginnings of the internet there was only two options for animation on a webpage. The first was animated gifs, an animated gif is essentially a web-based stack a flip cards, stringing together static images to create the illusion of movement.  Unfortunately animated gifs can end up being large files, pixilated and don’t look [...]

To add a chrooted FTP user outside of Plesk properly, you need to: Create the user with the home directory as the root of what they can access Give the user a password Make their primary group psacln Add them to the psaserv group as well # useradd username -d /var/www/html/website/slideshow/ # passwd username Enter [...]

I ran into an issue today on an Ubuntu server running Apache 2 where the server already had an SSL certificate for ‘www.domain.com’ and the client wanted to add a second one for ‘sub.domain.com’.  I added a new IP to the server, set up the virtual site, and generated the CSR and ordered and installed the cert [...]

At WebSight Design we try to remain technology-agnostic. (The right tool or language for the job.) Having said that, we are primarily a PHP shop. However, with the launch of the Google App Engine, we’ve been looking seriously at Python. In recent years, I have become a big fan of development frameworks so to aide [...]

When it comes to design, the web has another dimension that design for print doesn’t: usability. Visitors to a web site need to know where to click, and how to find what they want, all while being actively engaged in the visual experience that represents the company, person, or people the web site is for. [...]

As you may have found out, a web server that houses a bunch of web sites can cause some issues with file permissions when it comes to allowing PHP to write files that a web site needs, whether it is a data file, a document or an image. This is usually not an issue if [...]

My company: WebSight Design, uses Subversion for source and version control for all of our web development projects. We also use the amazing hosted Subversion service: Springloops. (If you ever need a Subversion deployment tool, Springloops is it!) Springloops repositories are *only* accessible via HTTPS. In order to gain access to a repository from the [...]