Thank you, Virginia.gov, for a Better User Experience

State government websites have the enormous challenge of presenting a unified presence on the web while also giving autonomy to the hundreds of organization sites within them - and on a limited budget.

Create Headlines With Cufon

For years, web designers have been faced with two choices when creating a text-element on a page: 1) Stick with web fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, et al, and use HTML text, or 2) Use text as images.

Going from Design to Cut-up Involves Switching Mental Gears

Being a user-interface designer involves two jobs: designing a comp and then turning this design into code (or as we say here at Phase2, "doing a cut-up.")

Both involve creativity and precision, but while there is some overlap, at a certain point I take off my designer hat to put on my cutter-up hat. It involves a clear switch of mental gears.

Rounded Corners on Images using CSS

Many of our clients want a photo to accompany almost every article on their site. Sometimes its necessary to offer some “styling” solutions to these photos, usually in the form of a CSS-driven frame around the photo. Here’s a quick and easy way to add rounded corners to photos on your website.

When an Avatar is your professional face

In the realm of social networking sites, anything goes when associating an avatar with one’s profile. I have seen people use as their avatar:

• A photo of their favorite presidential candidate
• A Chinese character
• Snapshot of their kid’s pet rabbit

But what if you know that those who are viewing your avatar include the president of your company or your boss?