Here at Webflo Studios, we never sit still. During our spare time, such as the holidays, we are constantly teaching ourselves new techniques to improve in all areas of Arizona web design service, including the following aspects:  

- Design

- Back end programming

Something we at Webflo have learned early on in the endeavor to forever advance our craft of web design is the key use of subtlety in our design. You might wonder what subtlety is, or at least question its application when it comes to Arizona web design.

Subtlety is you looking at a website and it striking you as being an excellent website, but you can’t quite put your finger on why it is.

Subtlety is a website having many animated buttons but only allowing them to activate when the user hovers on them so as to avoid making a site too busy and loud.

Microsoft has been eager to showcase over the past year or two the fundamental changes to the core of the Windows operating system in its next version of Windows. This is because Vista, arguably one of Microsoft's larger failures, was considered less of a core change to the Windows operating system when it was the successor to Windows XP.

Still today, in much of the IT community, and even within our own Arizona web design company Webflo Studios, the strengths and failures of Windows Vista are argued about. I won't go into the specifics about why Vista was considered by many to be a dud, only that the perception of a good majority of professionals and populace at large thought so. Microsoft conceded this point by the act of continued support for XP, releasing its third service pack for XP in April of 2008. In fact several of the features added to XP in that service pack were previously only available on Windows Vista.

This is why Microsoft is trying to champion its new simply named Windows 7 as a new, built from the ground up, core changes operating system. It has features and changes that on the surface look very similar to Windows Vista, but underneath the hood there are many changes to the core architecture of the operating system. A few of the new features include easier networking control for home networks, faster searching, and a more streamlined multimedia library system. Such features could improve the ease of use for everyone, from an Arizona web design company like us, to the casual computer user.

According to our analytics,  there is still a good group of people who view our sites in IE6, about 19% actually. This surprises me, considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting IE6. The browser is known for having a multitude of security issues, and for being slow, riddled with bugs, and generally unable to render CSS. Some users' reluctance to upgrade despite these problems is interesting to me.

Every web developer, like myself, dreams of a day without IE6. To be honest, in my experience, most companies still using IE6 are either stuck with Windows 2000 and cannot upgrade due to software costs, or the IT department is just too busy to perform the update. Then again, such IT departments might say that we developers should be content with IE6 since the other six browsers are not enough, and that IE6 came out in 2001 so maybe they should wait a full decade before the upgrade.

Unfortunately, we are not the only ones who have a problem with IE6, and this is nothing new. I have talked to a good number of individuals who work at the leading web designers firms and their companies have stopped altogether supporting IE6. I still use a png fix sometimes, but if you do not know much about web browsers, updates are very crucial and it will help speed up the way you look at the web. And considering that it is 2008 and IE8 is already out, I don't think an upgrade from IE6 is too much to ask at this point. In addition to these points, consider that IE6, IE7, IE8 really feel and render completely different makes my job as a front end developer that much more difficult.

Solutions

After many questions about pricing, we at Webflo Studios have decided to release our web design packages.  I know this is not much of a big deal for people, but it should give possible clients a good idea of our price range.  I have researched many companies that do have prices listed on their websites, and according to this research, our prices are very reasonable:

The next big thing Google is coming out with is Google Android. No, it's not a robot. It's a Linux-based mobile operating system, built for cell phones. The first thing you need to know about Android is that, in line with the principles of Linux, it is open source. The recently released T-Mobile G1 is the first phone to use Google Android.

Many of the other major cell phone carriers are resisting using Android, and very understandably so. Google's business model threatens the model of the current cell phone companies. Many of the other carriers have vested interests in their own operating systems. In addition, many applications that typically cost money to use, Google will be offering for free.

  

Google has often seemed to side with consumers. Many of the choices they have made seem to have been the most beneficial to the consumer, although the fact that Google just wants more people online using its services is possible. Thus far, this strategy seems to be working quite well, as Google continues to prosper and come out with more and more products aimed at this very thing: getting more people on the web easily and more conveniently.

After much diligence, Arizona web design company Webflo Studios has finally been able to expand their reach to people. There are so many individuals online that it can seem like a daunting task to be heard. However, one of the great ways you can extend your reach, and therefore your company's influence, is by tapping into community-based websites and venues. Webflo Studios is proud to now finally be a part of Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook.

These community-based sites are the next generation of blogging and client contact. We will be uploading images of our goofy selves as well as constant updates on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Come visit us and express yourself. We welcome all newcomers as well as those not so new, so go ahead and visit us.


Here are the company profiles; click on any of them to check out Webflo Studios new pages:

After reading up a good amount on Google chrome and testing it out for myself, I am fairly confident the new challenger browser Google Chrome will come out on top.

Google Chrome is a browser designed for the web of today, the web with many web applications, java, and flash and imbedded video around every corner and tucked away into the back end of most web sites. One feature that goes along with this principle is how each tab for Google chrome runs on its own process. Because of this if one tab fails, and locks up, your other tabs will be unaffected. When typing an important email on the web or transferring money electronically your entire browser locking up can be a very unpleasant thing.

The GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Google Chrome is very simple and too the point, generally anything you want to find is very intuitive and easy to locate as far as settings and customizations go. And as it is open source, which was a wise move on the part of Google, there are sure to be a multitude of customizations for any sort of feature you would like Google Chrome to have that it doesn't have al ready.

A lot of web designers and developers ponder what direction the web is heading in the next few years.  I always thought that the web was always behind in time when I made my first web site back in 2000.   Which was basically a cool looking image with all these hotspots in them for links.  I think I might of had some javascript actions like show/hide and toggle (yea I was pretty cool). 

 I started getting into a lot the flash stuff, because it looked flashy and cool.  It seemed when flash mx 2004 and flash 8 came out, there was nothing but really crazy looking(mostly non-dynamic) flash sites all over the place.  I appreciated such a free platform where anyone could put whatever they wanted to on the page, but it seems as though AJAX turned out to do a lot of things flash could do.  So why even use flash?  With SEO being very popular, and developers building better techniques in javascript (i.e mootools, scriptaculous, etc), why even use flash when web 2.0 is here.  For me, it didnt seem like web 2.0 didnt get popular till late 2006.   I could be wrong but that is my perspective. 

So my question is where is future heading for web designers and developers.  When are we going to be heading into web 3.0?  Maybe web 3.0 will have a 3D like feel.  I would whole heartily agree that web is going to get much better in functionality, that will be able to match superior designs.  I see a lot of flash CMS sites now, and I dont know how hard is is to incorporate  a backend language into flash, but it seemed like it would be quite difficult a few years ago.  However, being a 3d guy (maya), I honestly like what the new flash cs4 has to offer.  It seems as though a lot of software engineers are starting to understand complex 3D programs and are now incorporating them into web type programs such as the new flash, giving more dimesions to the program itself. Check out a tutorial on the new flash CS4 at Lee Brimelow's website.

If your company has a website and you would like to start selling products online, you will need an e-commerce website. The path to obtaining a working e-commerce website that also employs effective web design is often confusing. Fortunately, you don’t have to deal with it alone, as most web designers know the ins and outs of creating an attractive and convenient e-commerce website. 

Getting Started 

In order to get a feel for what you will need, you should check out the websites of your favorite online stores. What makes them your favorite places to shop? The product itself probably has a lot to do with it, but is your shopping experience on each site frustrating, or does it flow smoothly? Most likely, shopping at your favorite online store does not make you want to pull out your hair. Instead, the design is intuitive and attractive, and displays effective web design. Why not offer these same qualities to your customers?