Jesse Smith's Website Design Blog

These are just a few of Jesse Smith's thoughts about and activities in the wide world of website design.  Check back occasionally to see if Jesse has had time and inspiration to post anything new.

Save time and money with web design project management best practices

Some tips from a web professional to business owners everywhere.  Many of these tips are especifically beneficial for business owners with very restrictive budgets, who are looking for low-cost …

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How to Use the Slice Tool in Photoshop

If you are a graphic designer with a background in print design, you may have never used the slice tool in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Why would you?  In print design, you have no need of …

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The Low-Priced Competition

Pricing for website design begins at around $650... in a manner of speaking.

You may see prices like this, or even lower, posted on websites across the internet. However, in most cases, this type …

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How to Build a Website For Free (or Almost Free)

It's no secret! Website design does not have to cost thousands of dollars. I often hear from business owners who don't have a budget for custom design services; but no matter what your …

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Free Stock Photos for Web Design

[I originally posted this in the summer of 2010, but due to unforeseen circumstances, it has changed since then.] 

I wanted to give props to a couple of websites that allow their photos to be …

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How to Write Effective Website Content

[Originally posted August 21, 2010]

I created this video presentation on writing effective website content for one of my MBA classes.  Transcript follows, below the video.  Please feel …

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Quoted in Wired Magazine

[Originally posted in October of 2010.]


From the department of nobody cares:

In response to an article they published, I e-mailed a comment to Wired Magazine in which I dissed on a certain web …

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Unforeseen circumstances

Yes, I'm sorry to say that I've experienced a loss of data from this, my website design blog.  It was not caused by malicious activity; nor would I characterize it as sheer stupidity …

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Upcoming developments: CSS3, HTML5 and IE6

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, this blog post is now much shorter than it was when I originally posted it, sometime around June of 2010.

HTML5 and CSS3

When I first posted this topic, …

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Online Layout Generator

[Originally published April 27, 2010]


I finally decided that I had written the same virtually identical code too many times and that it was time to create a reusable blank layout template system for …

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Jesse Smith's Website Design Blog

These are just a few of Jesse Smith's thoughts about and activities in the wide world of website design.  Check back occasionally to see if Jesse has had time and inspiration to post …   Click here to read more

PNG Support for IE6


[This post was originally published on April 15, 2010.  Since then, the design community has followed Google's lead and officially dropped support for IE6 from the list of industry-standard …   Click here to read more