Web Design Tips & Trends for California Businesses

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The Use of Balance in a Web Design

Thinking about the concept of visual balance in a web design would be similar to that of physical balance on teeter-totter. Physical elements have weight that they needs to balance, well so do the elements of a web design. If …

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Browser Trends September 2011

Here is the latest statistics of the browser market. The table is tweaked a bit to make it so that Firefox 4, 5, 6 are combined into one. Since Firefox is doing the rapid release its hard to separate the …

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Google’s New Service Improving Web Page Load Speed

Google recently released a new tool called Page Speed Service, which will help speed up the load time of web pages. The new service works by automatically taking care of the optimization on the site by rewriting pages and delivering …

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The Buzz of Google +

Google has created some hype with their new social network called Google +, which is still in the beta phase with an invite-only status for new users. With close to 10 million users already, it is predicted that it could …

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Finally Businesses Can Choose Their Own Web Domain

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the growth of generic TLDs that will allow companies and organizations to choose and create domains. The domains are about to change substantially from domains such as “.com,” “.net,” “.org,” to …

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CWD Teams up With 51 Fifty Energy Drink

Chico Web Design is teaming up with 51 Fifty Energy Drink to make a website to display their product catalog, purchase online, and display their event calendar! Chico Web Design has already helped 51 Fifty Enterprises create 51 Fifty Apparel …

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The Design Process Broken Down

Designing a beautiful website that is pleasing to the client takes multiple steps. The design of the site is very important and designers will naturally want to make the site aesthetically pleasing, but the highest priority should be to meet …

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Apple to Release Mac Update to Stop Malware Attacks

Apple will be issuing a software update in response to a recent increase of malware attacks on Macs. The malware, which pops up on computers under MacDefender, MacProtector or MacSecurity, has been targeting Mac users for the past few weeks. …

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Mozilla Released Firefox 5 Beta

Mozilla has kept its promise to come out with new releases of the Firefox open-source browser on a faster schedule. The new beta version of Firefox 5 arrives just a couple months after Firefox 4 was officially released. Mozilla recently …

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Browser Market Share Seeing Growth

Since the release of Firefox 4 and IE9 the two browsers have seen nothing but growth and no indications of it stopping either. The two browsers have only been available for more than a month, let’s take a look at …

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