The day has come for me to announce the release of the new Portastand.com website. Hot off the heels of the launch last week of the Society of Clinical Psychology Website, I’ve got back-to-back sites going live. It’s a good feeling! Working closely with the good folks at Portastand, we’ve produced a website I think we can all be proud … Read More
I am pleased to announce the completion of a new website design for Division 12 of the American Psychological Association: Society of Clinical Psychology. After several months of planning, revisions, and testing, we have finally gone live and are happy to share our work with the internet. As with any large website, especially one for an extensive organization, there were … Read More
Today we are discussing The Commons Hotel in my home city of Minneapolis. Located just blocks from my Alma mater, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, this shwanky hotel has been recently renovated to keep it hip and fresh. As far as I know, until recently this was actually a Holiday Inn hotel, or at least that’s what I remember … Read More
So you are trying to use some CSS3 markup to make a border appear in transition when you hover over your link or other element. But it just shows up instantly! This is something I have run into many times, and for some reason no one on the whole internet gives a clear explanation for it. Until today! Why isn’t … Read More
For something that seems so simple, there’s a lot that can go wrong with setting up either a temporary (302) redirect or permanent (301) redirect. With Godaddy hosting specifically, you may run into an issue that you did not foresee. You may even have no trouble redirecting the ENTIRE site, but to redirect just the home page you may encounter … Read More
If you want to remove the Admin Bar in WordPress using only CSS, there is a very easy way to do it. You can even make it responsive, so that it will display or be hidden depending on the size of the screen. Additionally, you won’t need to edit any of the core WordPress files, you will only need to … Read More
Brian Johnson Design is happy to announce that we have gone live with a new WordPress site for Ponytail Xpress, a Lakeville-based errand service and personal shopping service. In addition, I noticed today that even though we just launched the site and we only did minor search engine optimizations, it is currently ranking fairly high on the first page for … Read More
We recently launched a new website for the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro-based marketing agency, Magnetik Marketing Solutions. The site is actually template-based, with numerous customizations done to it. There is a large, front-page slider that gets some of the marketing message of the business out to visitors while adding a little motion and excitement to the design. To add some content … Read More
This particular project was requested by @sanjaypoyzer. He wanted to elaborate on our trick to maintain aspect ratio for an element with CSS. His goal was to have a div, WITH content, that would maintain its square shape while still being responsive. Easy enough to do if you want the square to respond relative to the width of the browser … Read More
At one time or another, you may have found yourself wanting to use sprites in your responsive website design. While at first this may seem like a very simple task, in reality it’s a little more difficult of a challenge. It can, however, be done. Here’s how! This trick is fully supported by all modern browsers other than IE 8 … Read More
