The Pixel Brew

The Pixel Brew is the official design blog from the design team at White Dog Design Group, where we brew fresh pixels daily. Here, you will find our musings on everything from design and code, to usability and life.


Recent Posts

Aug 18

New Florida Election Results Website Released

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Recently, our team has had the wonderful opportunity to create a website for the Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, to track contests from around the State of Florida on election night. Here is the official press release, we will post our screen shots from the project in our showcase shortly.

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Apr 23

How to Design Web Apps People Love: An evening with Kevin Hale

Topics: Usability

After our last "Refresh Tallahassee" meeting, several of had the opportunity to have dinner together, and we were lucky enough to have Kevin join us. Very insightful dude. If you live in the Tallahassee area, and want to inspire your users with great app development, please consider joining us for the next refresh meeting.

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Mar 29

A Better Button with CSS3

Topics: CSS, Design, Web Standards

Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome all support CSS3 tags. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer users will have to wait until IE9 is released to view CSS3 styles. For now, we'll have to limit our CSS3 to elegant flourishes that provide a better user experience in modern browsers while maintaining full functionality in all browsers.

With that in mind, CSS3 allows us to create a button that, I dare say, is a joy to click!

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Mar 22

Conversation Friday - This week, “Nestle Facebook Attack”

Topics: Social Media

"Conversation Fridays" are a lunch time conversation group held every Friday at the Conversation Factory, here in Tallahassee. Always great conversation with interesting people, centered around the world of social media.

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Mar 16

“Are you worth it?” Things to consider when picking a website design and development firm

Topics: Design

A common question that we get from potential clients, if they haven’t worked with us previously, goes something like this- “I’ve talked to five different designers, all with widely different features and price tags. How do I make up my mind?”

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