At Blueprint, I work on a variety of front-end development projects. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with 3DCart, an e-commerce software. Fellow Blueprint employees have written some reviews before on things such as Bing and the Adobe Creative Cloud, and I thought it would be a nice change to do one myself. This is my review of the...
There are two core elements in a website, your domain name and your hosting. In order to have a website “live” on the internet, you need both. Domain Registration A domain name (eclipsewebmedia.com) is how your website can be located, its an address, much like the physical address to your home or business (3700 Crestwood Parkway #320 Duluth GA, 30096)....
If you were hoping for some good news, this is not it, but its close. Every informed individual in the PPC world knows that Google’s new enhanced campaign slated to roll out in June is the worst thing that could happen to them. So what are enhanced campaigns? Well, in a nutshell, it is more control and revenue for google,...
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 will be remembered as a sad day for the Internet. Yesterday, Google announced that they are no longer are going to use WebKit as their rendering engine for Chrome. WebKit is an open-source web browser engine that Apple originally developed for Safari. This versatile rendering-engine powers Apple’s iOS devices, but has also been incorporated into other...
Google Places Dashboard Gets A Much Needed Update. On April 2nd. Google announced that they will slowly begin implementing new changes and updates the their Google Places Dashboard. They say the new changes will decrease the time before changes go live and will help the integration of Local with other products and services that Google provides. The new dashboard is...
What is Negative Space? Negative space is areas within your design that are not being used. Some may refer to it as “white space” but that is misleading because it doesn’t necessarily have to be white. Negative space is open, unused territory that allows your design to breathe. Why have Negative Space? In web design (and most other forms of...
Pinterest Usage Is On The Rise! If you know that social media is becoming a new way of life than you have heard of Pinterest. If not, let me break it down for you first. Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Users can...
I love working with CSS in front end development both on personal projects and at Blueprint. Most things in CSS are pretty straightforward. However, one thing that can confuse developers, from beginners to even seasoned veterans, is the CSS box model. It is a concept that could be hard to grasp, just like the CSS z-index property or different units...
When redesigning a website, styling can be important but the key part is really the structure underneath. The color scheme and graphics on a website are like the outer shell that draw people in, but if the user can’t find what they are looking for or don’t understand the main goal of the site then all of its beauty is...
Blueprint always stays on the ever-changing cutting edge of web development, such as responsive design and mobile website development. HTML5 is becoming more and more popular these days, especially as more HTML5 best practices and standards are forming. Today, I will explore some of the new features of HTML5. Advantage vs. Disadvantage The main advantage of HTML5 is that the...
