Omar Aviles

Blogging a wordpress on the iphone

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:55:55 +0000

This is a test post on my iPhone to post a message to my wordpress site. It’s amazing how far we can go with limitations and stretch them to they snap. From rubbing sticks to make fire through the right brothers making a airplane.

The love affair of IE6

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:41:06 +0000

In preparing for a job interview for web designer/ webdeveloper I notice during phone interviews and face to face the Name IE 6 is mention. It’s like the stepchild that nobody wants to deal with. Of course IE 6 is still used by many organizations and people. How silly of them to operate on such [...]

Rounded Corners – Buttons Love

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:40:00 +0000

I was recently on a phone interview and was asked about buttons. The questions was: What are some ways you design and develop buttons on your html pages? I drew a blank because I have not really use rounded corners. So I did what everyone does: Google it! Here is a great and quick tutorial [...]

Measuring up

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:40:42 +0000

Hi I know it has been a while so let us begin. The ruler is a tool use everywhere in work. We use rulers to measure,wood,metal, buildings, liquid, magazines, and websites. So how do we measure websites? well, this might need to be ask again. How do we measure the width and height of elements. [...]

Looking back at 2009 website inventory

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:53 +0000

Since starting this website, I have to say I have only put 2% of work into it. Without doubt, it clearly shows. In investigation my analytics, I see I have a total of 255 visitors for this year. My biggest moment was when I sent my website link into StumbleUpon and that got me some [...]

Needing Design Inspiration when all is dark

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:15:16 +0000

With the Holidays coming to the near end, I’m overwhelm with the vast quantity of media that is available to use as a resource when it comes to print and web design. As of late, I have been visiting Barnes and Noble and digesting all forms of inspiration. First off I found the board game [...]

Getting the creative wheels turning

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:42 +0000

It was a sunday afternoon and I was in wordpress land trying to read another blog about designing themes, when I decided to take a break. Then it hit me. I have no motivation to make a revised layout, design, colors, fonts for my personal site. Yuck. I needed to do something. This is when [...]

Should I put Flash on my homepage?

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:29:27 +0000

Let me start by saying I have little experience with putting flash on homepages. My experience with flash has been to make a photo slide show for an artist on CD, not for web. So, when it comes to flash, I do have opinions on how and when to use it. Here are some: When [...]

SEO – Marketing

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:44 +0000

Here are some marketing tools that I have been using this past August to hopefully boost pageviews on the Brooklyn Indie Market website that I manage. Marketing Tools : * Google Analytics - This a must have tool. This displays your visitors views, bounce rate, time on a page, new visitors, loyal visitors, where your [...]

The Stumbleupon effect

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:02 +0000

Continuing from my prior post about using stumbleupon to increase new visits, I have screen capture the results when you do submit your site to stumbleupon. As you can see, since I just started this blog I have 87 visits from Stumbleupon. However, To maintain more anymore visits I must stumble upon others who share [...]