I’m working on a rebuild of this site because it’s needed it for at least 2 years, and it’s a pretty dang terrible design. One of the main things I’m thinking about is the utility of the tags and categories on the site.
Looking through Google Analytics, few people look around either the categories or tags,
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I may be a bit late to the party, but Adobe has announced Creative Cloud pricing. If you didn’t know already, I’m not a big fan of Adobe. I want a proper competitor to come along and dethrone the beast with bloated software, and Creative Cloud does nothing to change my opinion.
As I say in
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Update So Adobe got wind of this little blog post and got in touch. Greatly reduced cost on the upgrade to CS5. You can read my thoughts on it here.
Recently I made the switch to a fully OS X environment. For a few months now I’ve been doing all my design work on PC and
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Mailto: links are terrible. You know the ones that open your desktop email client and fill in the email for you so you can ‘contact’ whatever site has this terrible usability.
Let me back track a bit, some mailto: links are terrible. The ones that really get my hate on are not the ones that are
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Quite a while ago 37signals/Basecamp did a survey on their products. Now I normally fill out surveys of products I use because I’d like them to improve in ways I think are good but this survey from 37signals was actually fun to fill out. The Questions While many of the question were totally normal and I don’t
The Issue
Working in the web industry means there is lots of news to follow. Tons of new developments all over that you are expected to keep track of. If you don’t keep track of the latest developments you can quite quickly find yourself using outdated techniques.
I use Google Reader to organize all my feeds. It’s
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Lately I’ve been looking at my site and coming up with a few pain points that I’d like to address with some small redesigns of the site. My footer contact form (and it’s ‘contact page’ counter part) are two items I would like to address. While they aren’t bad they could definitely use some refinement.
So
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ugly website
If you have a website and are contemplating a redesign of the site here’s a quick little check list of items to help you make the decisionPosted in Design, Usability | 7 Comments »
At one time or another each freelancer must deal with a client regarding the question of scope creep. As freelancer’s it can be easier to put your foot down, assuming you have a contract, and say no to added features at the same price. But what does an in house designer do? They don’t have
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This post was inspired by my recent dentist visit and the start of my silver grill as stated if you follow me on twitter. Having a long term website is a lot of work. You have to update the content, keep the Content Management System up to date so it’s not vulnerable to attack and
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