It’s still in its infancy, and too new of a concept for many web designers, but it’s on the way. Are you ready?

A number of DevineDesign site, including this one, and others now in production, are responsive. Try it. Grab the corner of this page with your mouse and pull it in. See how everything moves and adjust to iPad and iPhone size? Very cool, very useful. Puts the FUN back in FUNctional!

This is one big, inclusive website, that features many pages, posts and specialized elements. The site has online chat, testimonials, lots of interactive forms, a live Twitter feed, multiple slide shows, RSS Newsfeed, blog, and lots of rooms to grow. Most importantly, the staff at Amthor are able to update and change things easily on their site.

WordPress is an extremely user friendly content management system for websites. Users can easily add and update text, images, video, audio and more using the WordPress platform. Here’s an example of a video. It also gives viewers the option to enlarge and watch large/full screen or directly on YouTube.

This clip is from the David Letterman show with Dave welcoming Carrie, the merengue dancing dog.

This dog smiles thru the whole performance, right? This one’s for YOU, Cohen & Phyllis! Click here for another better/longer clip of Carrie dancing.

Located in Chester NY, Allan’s Falafel   at 115 Main Street, Chester, NY tel: 845-469-1714

This WordPress site features a site-wide search, slide show for  food pics and quotes from patrons who love the place, easy navigation to their lunch, dinner and catering menu, blog and more. They have a very fun and active Facebook page with over 700 fans. Allan’s also sends regular emails to customers who love to get and use their offers and coupons. We at DevineDesign,  love Allan’s Falafel’s food, their vibe and the fact they are right here in Chester, NY!

This site features a attorney profile, areas of practice, easy contact and directions pages, great resources links and more. Pleasing colors and imagery make this robust site easy to look at and navigate.

Google has a dedicated team of designers who turn out one creative doodle after another, every day. The idea for a doodles are generated not only in-house as well as from general public. Ideas can be sent to proposals@google.com. and fan logos are invited at proposals@google.com.

The idea of Google doodles began in 1998, informs Google:

…when founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd “o” in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users.

A year later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. Pleased with the result, Dennis was then appointed Google’s chief doodler and doodles became a regular occurrence on the Google homepage.

Chief Doodler. Nice job, with an even better job title.

Anyway, I look forward to Googling, which I do a google-plex times day, because of the doodles. Do you?

BeyondBarre’s custom ballet barre workout, created by New York Pilates and dance professionals, focuses on proper form and can be done by all fitness levels.They offer introductory, Level 1 and Level 2 classes as well as BeyondBarre with Ball and Band classes for an enhanced workout session. This is definitely NOT your daughter’s ballet class!

Beyond Barre exercise program, with its main studio in the Orange County town of Warwick NY, is now available nationwide through exclusive licensing and teacher training certifications. For more information call 845.544.1576 BeyondBarre – The only true cardio barre exercise program in New York.

Beyond Barre’s website features a slide show home page, testimonials, staff bios, online scheduling, special promos, video to see how fantastic the BeyondBarre ballet barre workout truly is! Really nice photos and some cool colors make this site pop.

You work in this biz long enough, and you get to know a lot of faces. Typefaces, that is. We love the fact we now have a bazillion faces to choose from, and the list is growing daily. With all those purdy faces out there, you gotta wonder WHY WHY WHY in the name of humanity and all that is sacred in the world,  do people select some really butt-ugly, hard to read fonts for their logotypes and literature?

1) Comic Sans. Every kid’s party place or preschool thinks this is cute and kiddie- like and fun (that’s fun!!! with multiple exclamation marks)  It’s not. It’s just poorly designed, and has bad, bad spacing issues. So stop the insanity now. Check out bancomicsans.com to see a real rant on this one. Maybe buy a tee shirt for me.

2) Papyrus. Papyrus is supposed to look Middle Eastern, Biblical, scholarly. This was selected as the title font for the movie Avatar. I saw it up there on the silver screen and cringed in my seat. But, the font choice didn’t seem to hinder the movie’s success. To date, Avatar is the highest grossing film ever…$2,782,275,172 and counting. Go figure.

3) Brush Script. Come on. A font is a font. Don’t try to pretend someone is in your PC with little paint brushes. Ugly, unbalanced and ugly. And it’s ugly.

4) Curlz. Unless you’re a 9 year old girl in pink tights, inviting your little girlfriends over for a My Little Pony Party, you have no excuse for using this one.

Ok. I’m done. I feel much better now. Thank you.