Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Website Hosting & Maintenance

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

It’s not a website until it’s on the web! You wouldn’t overlook the neighborhood you chose for your business, and the same goes for your host. You will be entirely dependent on that host to process and make available your content in a fast and reliable fashion. Knowing which hosts are best for you and [...]

SEO & Content Promotion

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Draw traffic to your website. If you have a website, or are in the process of obtaining one, you want people to come see it. Attracting visitors can be a challenging task, especially if you don’t know where to begin. Fortunately, SEO is almost a science. Search engines were created to index, filter and serve [...]

To Code a Mockup Bird

Friday, August 20th, 2010

To code is to create, to develop. Behind every color, column, button or image there is code. Whether this code is hand-written, software generated or adapted from something else, it must be flawless. Adal Design takes pride in writing code that is: Appropriate for the specifications Optimized at every level Free of mistakes and highly [...]

Architecture, UI & User Experience

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Why websites are like factories. Like a building with hallways and rooms, a website is a virtual space made of links and pages, some of which contain ‘machinery’. And like a factory, it is built to produce. Three key aspects of the construction must be particularly well thought for the ‘factory’ to produce: the architectural [...]

Web Design Explained

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Define your esthetic identity. Giving your company, product or self an “image” is essential to successful marketing. Once that style is defined, staying true to it in all forms of media communication is essential. An image is worth a thousand words, but one that is learnt through subtle repetition can be worth millions. Design: Design [...]

GoDaddy vs everything, GoDaddy vs all

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

GoDaddy vs BlueHost vs Fatcow vs Doteasy vs GoDaddy vs GoDaddy It has hit the fan!!! – – – – – – GoDadddy did it! They did awesome marketing, and created an expense ladder in place of a user interface. They trick so many, every day… So many of my innocent, well intended customers and [...]

Using the page hierarchy to customize different parts of a WordPress website.

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

In most complex websites that use WordPress as their Content Management System, custom development will require bringing changes to the code makeup of different sections of the website. This becomes more and more true as the amount of pages increases. WordPress pages lack categories & tags: Posts are entered into a database and need search-oriented [...]

Display blog RSS feed on Linkedin

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

To continue in suite of my previous article on automatically displaying your blog’s posts (the RSS feed) on a facebook page, let’s see how this can also be accomplished on Linkedin. Before I dive into the image-rich detailed description of the process, let’s take a few second to remember why and how we would do [...]

Display a blog RSS feed on facebook

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

With social networking, a single person or company can reach out to their public through a large variety of websites such as facebook, twitter and blogs. This can become very time consuming. The good news though is that more and more, websites are growing beyond the scope of their designated URLs. With the advent of [...]

Easy image based hover menu with HTML, CSS & jQuery

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

It has become convention on most websites to have the main navigation in the form of a horizontal menu at the bottom of a header. If, like Adal Design, you design unique websites, you are most likely going to make a different menu every time. Though it is great to be able to build your [...]