Archive: May, 2009

Tips for new freelance web designers.

Well you’ve got your qualifications and experience, and you feel it’s time to go it alone and get out there, make your mark, and make some cash along the way, though it is all a bit daunting when you look at it.  Web design, like most industries can be a competitive place, so here are [...]

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How wide should a page width be for a good web design?

When designing a website, a common reoccurring question that arises, is how wide should a page width be for a good web design?  Is there an easy answer to this, sadly there is not.  There is a lot to take into account, and below are listed a few of the essential points to take into [...]

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How to choose the right CMS. Part 3

In parts 1 and 2 of our guides, we have showed some important concepts and factors to consider when choosing the right CMS.  In part 3 we will take this a stage further, and look at roles and permissions, versioning, multilingual support, and multiple website support. To decide who can do what on a website [...]

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How to choose the right CMS. Part 2.

In part 1 of our guide, how to choose the right CMS, we looked at the concepts of functionality, editing, and asset management.  The underlying principle of selecting a CMS boiled down making a list of what you needed from a CMS, and not what you wanted.  Everything else flowed from there.  In part 2 [...]

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How to choose the right CMS. Part 1

Now we have looked at Joomla and WordPress, we felt it would be a good time to take the concept of content management that little bit further, by publishing a guide on how to choose the right content management system for your site.  By considering what is needed over what is not needed, could save [...]

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WordPress or Joomla, decisions, decisions, decisions…

As the regular readers of this blog have guessed, at Dreamtemplate.com we do like WordPress for our blog pages.  Indeed, WordPress, has taken off and is being constantly improved and modified, more or less all the time.  Should we though, be using Joomla for our blogging pages.  Are they really the same tool, or is [...]

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An Introduction to Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is one of the most popular web design tools out there, mostly because of its pleasant, easy-to-use interface, its sheer diversity and its compatibility enhancements. The user base of the software is equally impressive, with users of Dreamweaver being anything from hardcore web designers to simple personal use. Many people have drawn the conclusion [...]

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An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS allows web designers to have far more control over the way their website is presented by allowing for more flexible formatting of the content on a web page. CSS was developed back in 1997 but have only really become popular in the last few years. This [...]

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