Unless you are somehow new to the internet, maybe you just now decided to cash in on those 100 free hours from a Blockbuster AOL CD that you picked up in 1997, you may be thinking, “We need another blog like we need another Starbucks on our block.”  Allow me a few moments to convince you why this isn’t going to be your typical tech blog.

For starters, we are going to make it interesting.  I am blowing you away, I know, stay with me.  We are going to be interesting by talking about the web in ways that anyone from the developer to the marketing guru can understand and enjoy.  Occasionally we will dip into some topics that highlight the great minds we have here at iDesign, which our mothers will greatly appreciate since we don’t call as often as we should, and other times we will open up the classified files and share some insider tips and tricks.

We want to be more than just a blog about our company parties or a brag book about our amazing clients, we want to give you some useful and interesting substance.  Here are some of the things we will be covering in the coming weeks and months:

Flash vs. jQuery

We get it, Apple doesn’t like flash and therefore it must be evil.  Some people do turn to Flash too often but we are going to tell you that they are incorrect in assuming that jQuery and HTML5 (for now) can get the job of Flash done.  It may be bulky and resource inefficient but it is still the Ferrari of the Internet.

What is HTML5?

Other than the latest buzz word.  HTML 5 is making its way into a browser near you and it may be time to start thinking about how to use this emerging technology.

How Far Should I Push My Site?  Will I Scare My Key Demographic?

How to know when you are coming on a little too strong. Your visitors have certain expectations when they come to your site, and we want to exceed those expectations, but we want to do it with a precise mixture of  finesse, style, and intuitiveness.  For example, your visitors may not want to play a mini game of space invaders where they are blowing up parts of your website design so that they can find a phone number and order a pizza from you.  Although it may seem awesome (and it does) it may not deliver the marketing results that you desire.

A Guide to Buying Commercial Design and Understanding the Design Process

Design is a mysterious beast that often visits when you aren’t ready for it. We hope to outline some tangible ways that you can tame the beast and allow that explosive creativity to formulate into a finished product.

Shorthand CSS: How to write CSS faster.

CSS has some interesting tricks that are too often overlooked.  In this article we will share some of the shorthand that we use everyday to make the CSS coding part of the web faster and simpler.  After all, one line of code is always better than five.

The iDesign Side Projects Guide to the Universe

Believe it or not, but we don’t sleep in our offices (very often) and sweat over codes and designs. We actually have other things that we like to do on the side and, furthermore, we believe that being a more rounded individual actually helps spark our creativity and makes us better at our jobs.

Not bad huh? Those AOL CDs are already paying off!  I will leave you with this: