thought's from big max
the place for reviews, tips and tricks
TinyPNG Plugin for Photoshop CC 2017 Well Worth the $50.00
I’m not sure when the TinyPNG plugin for Photoshop CC 2017 came out, but I stumbled upon the other day and it is a very welcomed addition to Photoshop. I was never a big fan of the TinyPNG plugin for WordPress for a couple of reasons: I always went over...
read more
Four Questions to Ask When Someone Is Designing a Logo for You
Will the logo be unique - Copycat logos will only fail and be confusing to your clients and or customers. A unique logo design will stand the test of time. A logo that is designed with today's latest trends will quickly look dated and need to be replaced....
read more
Is Using a Theme in WordPress Fraud? I Thought it was Required!
The other day, I accidentally stumbled across a blog post titled “5 Reasons Your Business Should NOT Use WordPress” at platypi.io. I’ve met the author once maybe twice and one of the principals of the company is my girlfriend’s son. A few days after reading the article, I was at my girlfriend’s house and so was her son. Instead of saying hi, I blurted out,
Patricia Meyer
WordPress
To Tab or Not to Tab
A couple of weeks ago when I debuted Shari Steinbach, LLC’s website to a user group on Facebook, one comment stuck out:
“Don’t forget to have all of your links open in different windows so the user can get back to your site.”
Patricia Meyer
Website Design
An age old question “Do we still need a home button?”
There are numerous articles on the web on whether we still need the “home button” in our navigation menus or not. In reading some of the articles, I noticed that if the article was from a design firm, there was no home button.
Patricia Meyer
Website Design
Integrating Airbnb’s calendar into a booking plugin.
As I mentioned in my last post, client Terralsole has been renting their Villa Terralsole and Studio Fonte Lattaia on Airbnb for the last few years with great success.
Patricia Meyer
WordPress
Terralsole Winery Website Redesign
Client Terralsole is a vineyard in Montalcino, Italy. It is owned by Mario and Athena Bollag. For several years they tried to put a website together to sell their wines and to start a wine club only to become extremely frustrated with the process.
Patricia Meyer
WordPress
Why your designs should not come from a contest
Let me just get this out in the open, I am adamantly opposed to any kind of “design contest.” This will not be a rant, but examples of what I’ve seen and experienced and a warning to both buyers and designers.
Patricia Meyer
General
Why I switched from Gravity Forms to Caldera Forms
I had been a Gravity Forms developer user since 2010. That was until this past November when I decided not to renew my license. I didn’t and still don’t have any complaints with Gravity Forms.
Patricia Meyer
Forms
Why I prefer Tribulant’s Checkout over WooCommerce
I’m beginning to think I’m the only one who is not a fan of the WooCommerce plugin. With a client, I first took a look at the plugin in 2012. We both liked the idea of it being “free.”
Patricia Meyer
WooCommerce
Build Only vs. Build, Host and Maintain
The other day, a business associate Stan and I were discussing whether or not it is no longer profitable to host and maintain client websites. The question we put out there; would we be better off just building them and then sending the client on their way?
Patricia Meyer
Website Design
Website Design for Tropic Moon Media
This website design was the third project for Big Max’s Studio with Tropic Moon Media (“TMM”). The first project was to design an e-commerce website for them to sell a recently published book “SOUTH BEACH: Stories of a Renaissance.”
Patricia Meyer
Website Design
Howard Petusevsky, DPM Logo Design
When Dr. Petusevsky first contacted Big Max’s Studio, he was looking at a website design for his podiatry practice. Dr. Petusevsky has been practice for over 28 years in a location that provided him a great natural client base.
Patricia Meyer
Logo Design
Is it responsive? With the upcoming new year, does your website need work?
When I started designing websites years ago, choices were minimal. Now it is possible to make your website look just like a company’s printed brochure and even more.
Patricia Meyer
Responsive Design
What to do with old damaged photographs
With the advent of “Throw Back Thursday” on Facebook, a lot of us have started looking through old photographs. How many times have you come across a picture of a beloved family member or yourself that has been damaged due to water, folding, sunlight, too many years in the frame? The list goes on and on.
Patricia Meyer
Photo Restoration