The Livin Room Series Re-Launch

We recently re-launched The Livin Room Series with a load of new features and functionality. The client is an up and coming production company, Stop Lying Productions. The site is set up and using Gutenberg blocks and a custom Bootstrap 4 theme.  The home page uses Smart Slider 3 to highlight the latest and greatest …

Follow us on Instagram

We starteted our Instagram account on Earthday! Our first post being a Mural, “Growth” by Leon Rainbow So check us out as @inforestcom on instagram and give us a follow. We plan on posting cool stuff about web design and our lives as designers and coders in Princeton, NJ #earthday #earthday2019 #murals #graffiti

DrupalCampNJ Bootstrap Paragraphs

We recently attended DrupalCampNJ it is always a well organized and informative training camp. The camp takes place annually in February at the Friend Center, Princeton University. I always enjoy the session but also meeting and talking shop with other designers and developers. This year my goal was to learn about the paragraphs module in …

Sass vs Less

What is Sass (SCSS) and Less? Sass and Less are pre-processors that extend CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). They add features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themeable and extendable. They both have similar functions and syntax with minor differences. In Less, variables …

Designing with the development in mind

This post is a follow up to my previous post, Best practices for mobile friendly Web design, which I wrote a couple years ago. Having recently worked on several projects with graphic artists from print backgrounds, I am reminded how important it is for designers to be cognizant of the development process when designing for …

Non-Standard Bootstrap Headers

When we were asked to do a re-design for the The Concord Advisory Group Ltd. we used the Bootstrap toolkit, which provides a framework of pre-made components for building websites and Web User Interfaces. We like Bootstrap because it is responsive, mobile-friendly, works with LESS variables, and has a bunch of helper classes. It is also generally …

Rethinking the Mobile Experience

Now that mobile is so necessary, companies are switching over to responsive design. That’s great, but is it enough? The first thing to consider is  “what makes a good mobile experience?” Here are my thoughts: Good site performance is essential because although speeds are getting better with 3g/4g mobile devices they are still slow as compared to …

Google Data Studio Comparison Colors Wrong

We have been working with Google Data Studio ( https://datastudio.google.com ) especially since it is now offered fully to the public without limits. It is an amazing tool to give an elegant, customizible display to your Analytics or Adwords data report. Check out our introduction post, What is Google Data Studio?. One of our first …