5 Ways to Tell You Have a Good Web Designer

in Web Design, Web Development, San Diego | June 22, 2017

Being in the San Diego Web Design game for nearly a decade has been great -- we have worked on many projects over the years and have helped a number of San Diego area businesses in a variety of different industries, all while receiving stellar feedback and making client satisfaction a priority. In doing so, we have heard a number of horror stories from clients...

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Top jQuery (and vanilla js) Parallax Plugins

in Free Software, Mobile-friendly, Web Design, Internet, jQuery, Plugins | August 2, 2016

When done right, parallax scrolling images can add nice depth to your website or webapp. When done wrong, it can be another distracting animated effect that detracts from the page and causes your users to bounce to competitors. The difference could likely be finding the right plugin that gives you the control and tools to dial your effect in perfectly to match your implementation without...

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Google AMP for Fast and Beautiful Mobile Pages

in HTML5, Internet, Web Design, Google, Mobile-friendly | July 12, 2016

Google has long been on a mission to speed up and clean up the mobile web by prioritizing pages with responsive design in search results, creating tools to extensively test your page’s mobile friendlyness, doing cutting edge research on optimizing caching and page loads, and (for the most part) leading by example. Now, Google has jumped into the fray with a far more active...

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Clever CSS for Mobile Websites With No Compromise

in CSS, JQuery, iPhone, Android, Mobile-friendly, Web Design | February 9, 2016

It is no secret that contemporary CSS is a web developer’s greatest ally in the process of developing a cross-platform compatible, mobile friendly website. Here at Mission Bay Media, we know that mobile users--people browsing from phones and tablets--make up a large and ever-growing chunk of almost any site’s traffic, so we strive to use nothing but the best techniques to ensure sleek websites that...

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MBM's Top 5 Graphic Design Web Resources OTM

in Free Software, Internet, Web Design | September 18, 2015

Graphic and Web Designers take and combine resources around them to create original content. Of course, a designer’s magic is in the way that they do just that—synthesize original content from the world around them. That being said, resources certainly do play a big part in a great design and today, more than ever, us designers are surrounded by fantastic free resources thanks to the...

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HTML5 Video Background Elements & Testing

in Video, HTML5, JQuery, Web Design | August 19, 2015

With advancing technology in processors, wifi and video encoding, it has recently become feasible for web developers to start to embedding rich video content as elements in web pages. A few major corporate websites (PayPal, for example) have recently introduced video background elements via HTML5 on their homepages. While building our homepage’s main slider, we decided to embrace the futuristic tech and build a...

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