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Blog au Roux

Great Creole cuisine comes from the blending of cultural influences — French, Spanish, Caribbean and African — to create a truly distinctive and memorable taste. Our varied backgrounds allow us to share our collective expertise. As for Creole cooking, we start with one core piece of advice, “First you make a roux…”

Previous entries about Design

Why Good Design Takes Time

Between fast food, instant movie queues, and rush projects it seems like everything in our lives is delivered instantaneously, so why isn’t your website? On the surface, a website consists of a few photos and some content, so one may wonder, “why am I being billed for hours of work?”

Icon Fonts, Where Have You Been All My Life?

The thing about icons is that they’re everywhere, and they need to be. They provide a visual cue for something important or actionable, draw your attention away from gobs of text, and add emotion to what you’re presenting. As important, and essential to a website as they are, I’ve always found them kind of annoying to work with.

Why <table> Can Still Be Useful and When It Should Be Used

When left with the daunting task of designing and presenting large amounts of data for a webpage, I sometimes find myself returning to table-based markup for these reasons:

  • Presenting Organization, especially for side by side comparisons (think of a spreadsheet)
  • Quick and Easy to Read Data – Humans are always inclined to find balance and organization in what they see. Why not help everyone along and make things easier?

Redesigning the Mudbug Media Site

Recently, I was given the task of revamping our own site. As anyone in the web design field can tell you, keeping your own image up-to-date is vital, but somehow always gets pushed to the back burner while clients take the foreground. While we have been using html5 and css3 for our clients, our own mudbugmedia.com was lacking in modern syntax and best practices. For those of you not familiar with our old site, here are a few features that were a little embarrassing.

Email Signature Best Practices

Email Signature Best Practices

Compared to Tweets, Texts, and Status Updates, e-mail might seem boring and as old as time itself. However, for any kind of in-depth back-and-forth communication, they’re a necessity that we must still live with for the time being (sorry Google Wave).

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