web design - Grant Winney

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May 11, 2020

10 corporate sites from the 90s that your gram could've made

25 years ago, one site design was as bad as the next, and the bar was at an all-time low. I dug a few sites up on the Wayback Machine ... let's poke fun at the 90's!...

web design programming

Sep 17, 2019

7 Mistakes of Modern Web Design

Once upon a time, in the glory days of Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod et al, we were in a race to the bottom, proudly outdoing each other with animated gifs, scrolling marquees, and midi files. But poor web design didn't vanish... it only changed. Here are my current favorites....

web design user experience blogging advice

Mar 15, 2018

5 ways to improve your blog posts without touching the content

I read quite a few blog posts in any given week normally, but in the last week I read more than usual. I noticed a few trends that bothered me, so here's a few suggestions I'd like to humbly make that could improve your visitor's experience....

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.