David Michael Akers's blog

I've recently started the process of redesigning one of my favorite sites. It's a site called Storycrafter.com that I did about nine years ago. I've not refactored it since then so I figured I'd update it. You can follow along the whole process from start to finish at Redesigning Storycrafter.com.read more…

I recently had an experience where a new client of mine stepped me through the process of using the CMS system the last developer had created for them. Or that's what they thought they were doing. What they were actually doing was showing my how they use Cpanel's file manager to edit the html source directly on the production server.

I about fell out of my chair.read more…

If you are like most website owners you have no idea if your website works for you. This is usually because you don't know why it was created to begin with. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you don't know what you wanted your site to do when you started, but what you wanted and what you ended up with is almost never the same.read more…

According to dictionary.com a website is, "A connected group of pages on the World Wide Web regarded as a single entity, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics."¹ Most online sources will say something close to that, but to me that's like defining a car as, "A mobile metal enclosed passenger compartment that is mounted on four rubber coated wh read more…