Box 9 | Web Design Victoria BC http://www.victoria-web-design.ca Freelance web designer in Victoria BC Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:21:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Web Design Victoria BC http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/design-roundup-2/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/design-roundup-2/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:01:35 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=874 Web Design Victoria BCTERRY O’REILLY I have become obsessed with The Age Of Persuasion! Terry O’Reilly has a great advertising blog, radio show and book. Love him. love it.
OUTRAGEOUS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
This is the kind of house I would live in if I weren’t committed to my hundred year old craftsman bungalow.
CELEBRATION OF STREET ART
A website that celebrates street art? Count me in!
SUPER CRAZY COOL PHOTOGRAPHY
These action photos are stunning … Read the rest and fun and inventive. Have a look for yourself.]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/design-roundup-2/feed/ 0 Dear Facebook Users – Just Stop It Already! http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/dear-facebook-users-just-stop-it-already/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/dear-facebook-users-just-stop-it-already/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:43:13 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=867 Dear Facebook Users Just Stop It Already!If you have a business, a website, and a Facebook fan page, you are probably getting things all wrong. Many of my clients seem to post religiously to their Facebook page but not their own website.

The public searches Google to find goods and services. They do not search Facebook for goods and services. So, you have a special on soap? Buy two bars and get the third for free? Great. Tease your Facebook fans and make them come to your website for more information! … Read the rest On the internet, content really is king. Facebook is one of the most powerful websites on Earth because of all the content that people put up there. Your business site is struggling to gain in the rankings because you post all of your valuable content to someone else’s]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/dear-facebook-users-just-stop-it-already/feed/ 0 Dear Victoria Council Candidates – Hire a Designer! http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/hire-a-graphic-designer-already/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/hire-a-graphic-designer-already/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:57:34 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=823 Dear Victoria Council Candidates Hire a Designer!Driving around the streets of Victoria today (I took my Nana to lunch) I couldn’t help but notice the clutter of political signs for Victoria City Council and the CRD Board. Campaigning for civic government is kind of fun because you get a lot less of the slick committee compromises. And a lot less professional graphic design too! It seems, at least from looking at the various candidates’ yard signs, that many of the candidates have designed their own signage! Have a look at the sign pictured here. It’s a sign for what I’ll call the ‘unknown’ candidate. The name is completely unreadable even from a few feet away (you’re looking at a cropped close-up)! And whoever it is has plastered hundreds or even thousands of them all over town! Dear unknown candidate, … Read the rest

]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/hire-a-graphic-designer-already/feed/ 1 New iOS 5, OS X Lion Podcasts and Playlists http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/new-apple-os-x-lion-podcasts-and-playlists/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/new-apple-os-x-lion-podcasts-and-playlists/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:42:29 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=767 New iOS 5, OS X Lion Podcasts and PlaylistsFrustrated by the way iTunes no longer recognizes your podcast playlists? Yeah me too! I tried all kinds of things, thinking that maybe my favorite podcasts were somehow now in the wrong format or something! In frustration I took to the web and found a discussion thread in the Apple forums where LOTS of people were having the same issue. One of the posts mentioned a tab that I hadn’t even noticed before, a brand new tab under your ipod icon just for podcasts! So it appears Apple has fundamentally changed the way that your device syncs with your podcasts…and didn’t tell you. … Read the restThey just (once again) leave us to discover this on our own! It turns out that I personally like the new system much better. It allows you to choose an]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/new-apple-os-x-lion-podcasts-and-playlists/feed/ 0 Advice About WordPress Opensource CMS http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/advice-about-wordpress-opensource-cms/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/advice-about-wordpress-opensource-cms/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:03:51 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=746 Advice About Wordpress Opensource CMSHave you heard bad things about WordPress, Joomla, and other open source content management systems?

There are some web development companies who will tell you to avoid a designer who builds WordPress or Joomla websites because those sites aren’t secure. They’ll tell you that they have their own proprietary content management system that is much more secure, or that it’s easier for you to use, or they’ll have rehearsed some other perfectly plausible reason you should use their system.

Ask yourself, and them, what you should do if they tick you off and you want to take your business elsewhere. Every business needs an exit strategy, especially from strategic alliances that no longer serve them well or have become outright toxic.

Let me tell you something about WordPress. It has surpassed Joomla as … Read the rest

]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/advice-about-wordpress-opensource-cms/feed/ 0 How To Choose A Web Design Company http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/lies-cheats-scandals/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/lies-cheats-scandals/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:48:01 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=724 How To Choose A Web Design CompanyLike it or not, there are no shortage of unethical web design companies, freelance website designers who can not, or will not build to current standards, and of course firms who overcharge by as much as possible and deliver as little as possible. Just as when making any purchase, the consumer is wary of being ripped off, cheated, and abused. However, with the purchase of a website people are at a much greater disadvantage. The technology is baffling to most, the language is confusing, and most people just sort of give up and take a wild chance on someone they don’t feel entirely comfortable with.

I have been dealing with a client lately that paid thousands of dollars to a web designer just six months ago. They now need to add a couple … Read the rest

]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/lies-cheats-scandals/feed/ 0 Blogging For Higher Search Engine Rank http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/blog-your-way-to-a-higher-search-engine-rank/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/blog-your-way-to-a-higher-search-engine-rank/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:53:02 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=698 Blogging For Higher Search Engine RankGoogle likes nothing more than seeing new content on your website. Correction: there is one thing they like more…tons of people, websites and blogs linking back to that new content on your website. This is the new reality people! You don’t have to love it, but you have to do it. Your blog entries need not be lengthy or earth shattering, but if you want to rank higher, you have to post new content twice a week on a regular basis. Take this blog post for instance. I’m working on my rank for the term SEO Victoria, so I write new articles which always use that term somewhere. If you cannot bring yourself to write a short article twice per week I will write them for you – for a small … Read the rest

]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/blog-your-way-to-a-higher-search-engine-rank/feed/ 0 Victoria Web Design Roundup http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-web-design-roundup/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-web-design-roundup/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:31:55 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=674 Victoria Web Design RoundupCheck out these before and after shots of offices. If I could just wave a magic wand in this here home office… Super creative and inspiring ‘sculpted illustrations‘ by Jessica Fortner More for the ‘why didn’t I create that’ file…negative space in logo design DROOL. BMW concept cars outdone only by the spanky-new electric Tron Lightcyle  Architecture Porn: The Fray Leon House designed by 57Studio Is STREET ART … Read the rest the only relevant type of expression left?]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-web-design-roundup/feed/ 0 Information Layout – Web Design Victoria BC http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-bc-web-design/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-bc-web-design/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:14:13 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=656 Information Layout Web Design Victoria BCA good website design will be a positive reflection of you, your company, and the products or services that you provide. Whether it is for personal or business use, your site really ought to express some personality and individuality. Savvy web surfers will sense a stock web template a mile away and they DO judge them to be amateurish. Don’t forget to appeal to your website’s users! Most small business owners have an old tired web design if they have a website at all. The subject of web design never comes up for them. In fact, they often forget whether or not they have a website at all. Do you know why? … Read the restBecause people cannot find their website, and even if they do find it, they get an immediate negative impression of the]]> http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/victoria-bc-web-design/feed/ 0 Why Box 9 Design Wants To Knock Your Socks Off! http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/why-victoria-web-design-wants-to-knock-your-socks-off/ http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/why-victoria-web-design-wants-to-knock-your-socks-off/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:05:34 +0000 PCF0rst3r http://www.victoria-web-design.ca/?p=634 Why Box 9 Design Wants To Knock Your Socks Off!My goal with every client I work with is to create loyalty. Fierce loyalty. By creating a website that is laser focused on meeting your needs, and exceeding your expectations I plan to win you over and keep winning you over. I am not the type to squeeze you and your business into a ready-made website that does not speak to your brand.

I want the front page of your website to speak to your potential customers and clients who visit your site. I want what it says to be your core message. Don’t have one? I’ll help you to create one. You must be able to sum up the reason for your business’ existence in one or two concise sentences, and then convey that message in words and images ‘above the fold’ … Read the rest

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