Posts Tagged ‘Design’

  Dec 24 2008  

Miracles Do Happen

I’m going to do something that is very uncharacteristic of me: I’m going to bare my personal life to the world at large (at least briefly).  I really feel that my conscience commands me in this case to share a little bit.  You see, I’ve been witness to a miracle.
There was this guy.  He grew [...]

  Dec 17 2008  

Project: Aardvark Brigade - Twisted Records

As of late I’ve been fortunate enough to have some very fun freelance projects come across my what-passes-for-a-desk.  One such project that I just recently complete was for an interesting company based out of Massachussetsand New Jersey, called The Aardvark Brigade, for the website of UK-based Twisted Records.
Aardvark (henceforth to be notated as “AB”) has [...]

  Dec 1 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget (Part 2)

In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget:

We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine, [...]

  Nov 28 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget

Maintaining your own site can be a real chore.  That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates?  I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually.  A lot of people seem to [...]

  Nov 21 2008  

Solace From The Pros

It’s always a good idea to try and learn from your peers.  I try and follow the articles from industry experts and other people influential in web design and development on a regular basis.  And in doing so the other day, I found this post by Jason Santa Maria.  Cameron Moll left an interesting comment [...]

  Nov 18 2008  

Web Design as Sculpting

In my travels as of late trying to get this site tuned to how I want it, I’ve spent a lot of time over at WordPress going through documentation, looking at plugins, etc.  One of the things that I kept noticing was their little slogan/stylish saying in the bottom right corner of the page:

This got [...]

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Worth the retweet: http://is.gd/eKbo

Tuesday 23:37

@theslithytove You have no idea.

Tuesday 23:32

@jasongaylor You're so wise...it makes so much sense!

Tuesday 23:27

@james_hafner I especially like that the contact page with a simple form is *all Flash*

Tuesday 21:21

I had only heard of, but never seen this atrocity: http://tinyurl.com/7swtyf. Homegrown web design FTW!

Tuesday 19:25

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