misselhornMedia has recently completed a small informational website for FashionCare.

Website design features:

• Straightforward navigation
• Simple images & graphics
• Social media footer

The programming is pretty minimal, including a touch of css, javascript, and php for the contact form processing.

FashionCare is a dry cleaner certification program that ensures high quality garment care from its numerous nationwide affiliates.

Note the difference between the final design and the mockup. As you can see, some designs go through a bit of modification as the project progresses, and misselhornMedia aims to find the most suitable and effective final website design.

Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, critiques, opinions, and/or praise.

misselhornMedia recently completed a new website design for Health Awareness, Inc. They are a family-based small business from Jupiter, FL providing treatment options for patients dealing with any of a range of conditions and afflictions.

The site itself is a fairly simple two-page design featuring a brief company description, a call to action, and a list of medical conditions for which the company provides treatment. The second page is a contact form which guests can use to get more information and seek treatment directly from Health Awareness.

Overall, the site provided a simple, cost-effective design to help Health Awareness reach a broader market online via its website.

The site can be viewed here. Please feel free to view and leave comments if you so choose, whether they are regarding the design, usability, or overall impression.

Once you have installed and ran these programs, you should notice a definite increase in your PC’s productivity.

• AVG – Anti-virus protection. It’s free, it works, and it can be configured to update automatically. Don’t be suckered into that Norton subscription pre-installed on your computer. Set it to auto-update and auto-scan and forget about it. Cost: FREE
• CCleaner – Temp file and registry cleaner. Everytime you visit a website or uninstall a program, bits of information are left all over your computer’s hard-drive. Clean them out with this program whenever your internet browsing gets too slow for you. Cost: Also FREE
• Spybot – Malware (adware & spyware) protection. The internet is full of malicious little scripts designed to do stuff that you don’t want and take you to sites where you don’t want to go. Spybot protects you from them. Scan your computer with it preferably weekly, at least monthly. Cost: NADA
• Auslogics Disk Defrag – You know how things tend to get scattered around your place the more you are there? Your computer does the same thing, with bytes of data. Get things orderly again with this program and you should be able to get at your data a bit quicker. Run it once a month. Cost: GRATIS

There you have it. Free & easy PC maintenance that should help you get back to the high-speed surfing of the questionable sites that slowed your computer down in the first place.

Here’s an eclectic little assortment of some web sites I stumbled across recently that I’ve found useful for my latest web development projects.. some of them are just entertaining or interesting:

Folders4Gmail for Greasemonkey – Keep your gmails organized. I like to build folders for individual web site projects and I also find it useful to maintain a “Follow-up” for mails that I cannot immediately respond to and “Bills” folder which I don’t like to look at.

Blog Link – Adds your blog feed to your LinkedIn profile.

DevTips, a site aiming to make you a better web developer one tip at a time, offers this css tip on how to design circles without images.

stock.xchng – a large (and free) stock photography site. Designers: Start putting some models with headsets on your web site now! (joke, but be sure to checkout Headset Hotties)

and for you twitter fiends..  27 Twitter Tools to Help You Find and Manage Followers. I found wefollow particularly useful; you enter categories you want to be listed under, and then watch the twitter notifications flood your emailbox Friendorfollow is pretty nice as well; see who among your followers and followings reciprocates.

Most of these links can also be found on my Delicious page.

Firefox Plugins which all work with the latest version of Firefox.

• Colorzilla – This one is great for graphic and/or web designers. Colorzilla lets you eyedropper sample any color code on any website in RGB, HSV and additional formats.
• Cooliris – If you are into graphics or photography, this is for you. Cooliris transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D wall for searching, viewing, and sharing images and graphics.
• Delicious Bookmarks – Adds buttons which allow me to easily bookmark pages to my Delicious account, which then feeds into my FriendFeed, which then posts to my Twitter.
• FoxyTunes – Adds play controls for iTunes to your browser’s status bar. Who wants to minimize their browser just to pick a new song? Now you don’t have to. Btw, if you are into the music network thing.. here are my last.fm or blip.fm profiles
• Screengrab – Does just that, in jpg or png format.
• StumbleUpon – Adds a toolbar, which I am usually not crazy about, but this one allows for very easy focused browsing of the web. You start a StumbleUpon account, enter your interests (i.e. web design, programming, and graphics) and then one-click browse away through related sites. I have my Stumble account linked to FriendFeed so I can share my “I like it!” pages via Twitter.
• Web Developer – Another toolbar yeah, I know : ( .. but suck it up (and/or disable it when not in use) Web Developer provides a great set of features for viewing html source code, dealing with forms, images, etc. However, I find the CSS editor to be extremely useful. You can split any page with css into two panes (one is the css and one is the preview), view stylesheet edits instantaneously, and then save the newly edited stylesheet. It’s really great for editing WordPress themes, or any theme for that matter.

Greasemonkey Scripts: first you download the Greasemonkey plugin.. then add the others.

• Greasemonkey – Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
• AutoPagerize – Eliminates the need to click “More”, “Next”, or any other page navigation on most websites… just keep scrolling down!
• Better FriendFeed – Displays extended user profile information on FriendFeed.
• Better Gmail 2 – (requires Greasemonkey) Enhances Gmail with a compilation of useful features like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.
• Twitter Search Results - Displays recent relevant tweets in a short list before your Google search results