Archive for September, 2007

Web Design Fonts

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I would have to say my least favorite font is Commic Sans.  If I get an email from someone or go to a website with a nice big pink Comic Sans my stomach begins to rumble.  For potential customers to take your business and website seriously stick with professional fonts that are available on everyone’s computer.

I would recommend sticking with the following fonts when creating your website:

timesarialterbuchetverdanahelvetica

I would recommend NOT using this font for your web design:

comic sans

This article from Sitepoint discusses the art of typography and its graduation to the computer screen.

Keep in mind, it is difficult to know what browser and operating system your users are using so try to keep a font that is accessible to the majority of users.

Outsourcing makes good business sense!

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

There are two options a company can take when faced with a software development and web design projects. These options are to hire an in house development staff or outsource the project to a company with expertise in software and web development.

 

The benefits to outsourcing include the following:

1. You want to spend time managing your business, not managing your software development project.

 

2. You have expertise in your business not in software and web design.

 

3. You don’t have to pay full time employees when there is no work to do.

 

4. You don’t have to provide insurance or any other benefits to sub contractors.

 

5. You can discontinue the contract if you are unhappy with the quality of services you are receiving.

 

6. It is difficult to attract and hire qualified web staff.

 

Web Impakt provides outsourcing services to many industrious successful businesses.

These include the following:

Mountain View Hospital

Jensen Jewelers

Pacific Empire Radio

 

These companies benefit from outsourcing all their software and web design needs to Web Impakt.