Category: Random

  • Web Designer Magazine Article

    Web Designer Magazine Article

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    I recently had the opportunity to contribute my thoughts to Web Designer Magazine out of the UK. The question I, along with others, was asked is “Is Web Design a Dying Art?” The premise of this is based on the strong tools that are coming out for people to build their own websites and blogs

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  • Getting Macports and Git Working on Snow Leopard 10.6

    Getting Macports and Git Working on Snow Leopard 10.6

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    We just upgraded to Snow Leopard at work and while the OS is great I did hit a few problems. To start I realized that my install of Git was not working. Then I got farther down the path and realize that Macports was also dead. Then yet another step and I had no C

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  • Bad Forms Provide Bad Feedback

    Bad Forms Provide Bad Feedback

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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.

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  • Yahoo’s New Homepage and Some Problems

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    The big story today seems to be the roll out of Yahoo’s new homepage. While this is very cool for Yahoo to do I still think that there are some problems with the idea. Is This What People Really Want? I’ve recently read Getting Real and while I do not agree with all of the

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  • Christopherdessi.com Launched

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    This was the second site I did for Chris, first was Dadzillatv. This is Chris’ personal blog on social media. Chris is seriously passionate about media and building your marketing potential. His passion comes across in his posts. For this site Chris wanted to go with Thesis as a base theme and then perform some

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  • WITA Launched

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    Just a few weeks ago I launched WITA a blog on video games, comics and pop culture by WITA. This was one of the most collaborative designs I have worked on. In fact most of the initial design work was done by WITA herself. I walked her through the process of deciding what the most

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  • Power Breeds Complexity

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    Yeah this is kind of an iPhone/iPod 3.0 software post. Sorry if you’re tired of it. We’re not doing a round up of cool features or anything like that so read on. My experience with my iPod 3.0 update was less than satisfactory. 3 hours 2 reboots 1 complete restore and I was up to

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  • Designer Shout Out

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    I was recently breifly interviewed by a wonderful identity, brand, all around designer, and Photoshop teacher that goes by @Firgs on twitter. Hit the link to read the interview. Once you’re done browse her site and subscribe to her blog for some awesome Photoshop and design tips. Designer Shout Out on Design by Firgs

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  • Free cformsII stylesheet

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    I work with wordpress tonnes and most sites I build need a contact form of some sort. My default plugin for forms on wordpress is cformsII. My only real complaint with the plugin is that the stock stylesheet is huge and a bear to work with. To solve that problem I created my own and

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  • Blog Designer Interview

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    I was recently interviewed by @kellymccausey of Blog Designer News. Click the link below to listen to the short interview and check out Blog Designer News. Interview.

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