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Ewajo Dance just got a face lift with new pictures and a fun font. Check it out.

The Health Improvement and Promotion Alliance (Hip-Ghana) website just got a little face lift with the inclusion of a Flash slide show. Check out this non-profit that focuses on health action and basic and applied social and health research in urban slums in Africa.

Just launched my .mobi site. On your phone, just try koolkatwebdesigns.mobi

I have been thinking about Flash website lately. I really like a subtle use of flash for banners, image galleries, etc. but I am not won over by all flash websites. They take too long to load and sometimes seems contrived.

While this is probably old news now, we keep hearing about web 2.0. I’m all for networking, letting people have their say and all that wonderful stuff. But lets face it, most web 2.0 sites are ugly. Don’t believe me? Check out this page and take a look at some of the sites. A little design originality would be nice.

Want some yummy custom candles - visit the wonderful Flutterlights store!

Hoping to pick up some new tips, I was following along with some online training at Lynda.com — Photoshop CS3 for the Web Essential Training and got to the chapter on slicing. There, the poor viewer was encouraged to just save out the html and slices and let Photoshop create tables to lay everything out. What about web standards? Where is the CSS? Well, no where apparently in this world. No wonder there is still so much ugly markup out there.

I am really excited that the website for Centered, a Woodinville Pilates Studio, has launched. It was pretty intense working on this site since it had a tight time frame in which to launch.

While working on my latest e-commerce site, I  (of-course) wanted to check out other sites. I am really amazed at how many web designers are still using table in table design and have not switched to standards based design with slim markup and css for styling.

I wonder if clients ever think about how state-of-the-art their web designers are or are not?

Just a thought on what I am working these days. I have been spending my time putting together an e-commerce site for Flutterlights which sell fabulous custom candles. You get to pick just a wild variety of colors and scents like blackberry pie a la mode!