• Don’t Get Your Design’s Stuck on Language

    Don’t Get Your Design’s Stuck on Language

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    I’ve been designing lots of e-commerce projects lately and a theme I’ve been finding in the designs is the buttons. Specifically the implication of buttons. We’ve all seen buttons on store that say “Add to Cart” or “Purchase” or whatever but does the simple word convey enough meaning? The Thoughts I am more and more…

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  • What Type of Experience Do You Provide

    What Type of Experience Do You Provide

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    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 If you don’t keep track of the latest developments you can quite quickly find yourself using outdated techniques.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…

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  • Comienzo a Free WordPress Development Theme

    Comienzo a Free WordPress Development Theme

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    If you follow me on twitter you may have noticed me tweet about adding features to my WordPress development theme. Well today it’s ready for release. Comienzo (thanks @iKitty for the Spanish help) is a starting theme built for developers or designers. This really isn’t built for non-coding users since it contains almost no styles…

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  • The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2

    The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2

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    This is the second part to getting a Windows machine set up for Ruby on Rails Development by having Ubuntu running inside Virtualbox. View Part 1 here. Today’s screencast will walk through installing Ruby, rubygems 1.3.5 and Rails with rubygems, and SqLite3 as well as installing my preferred code editor Komodo Edit. Watch the screencast…

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  • 5 Ways to Keep Your Cool

    5 Ways to Keep Your Cool

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    While inspired by the heat I am currently experiencing in BC this has nothing to do with that type of heat. We have all had a client that did more than ask us for a ‘bigger logo.’ You know the client that you sit with and brainstorm for new ideas for the design work. You…

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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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  • Don’t Force Your Website to Fail

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    Most companies today realize they need a presence on the web. In most industries now if you don’t have a web presence of some sort you won’t have a business for long. I know one company that stocks lots of rare items for their brick and motar store because on the web it sells across…

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  • Staying in the Zone by Killing Distraction

    Staying in the Zone by Killing Distraction

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    The zone is that place where things flow. Birds fly music plays. It’s cheesy, cliche and sometimes hard to come by. Really the zone is where we need to be regularly to get things done. For many of us the zone only sometimes shows its head. We struggle to find it. Love it when it…

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  • Are Free projects worth the time?

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    As a web designer and coder it is always easy to find people that want work done online and just happen to have no money to pay for that job. Probably 90% of those people are just looking for a hand out. Let’s just say it they’re cheap bottom feeders, but a few are really…

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  • Wasting Time with Social Networking

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    Unless you have had your head in the sand you have heard of social networking. Social networking is the big craze right now. Many people would tell you that if you’re not using social networks with your business your missing out on customers. There are people that make their entire living teaching you how to…

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