• 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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  • Build Some Social Capital First

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    Over the last few years social media has become a huge item for both personal users and business alike. Most people have a facebook profile. Many people and businesses now even have a twitter accout. But not everyone yet. I was recently asked to do some social media consulting for a business. They wanted 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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  • Your Only Investment is Your Time

    Your Only Investment is Your Time

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    As any web designer could confirm there are a host of people with “good ideas,” no skills to implement them and no money to pay someone to do it for them. If this describes you read on, this post may tell you how to have a chance of getting someone to invest their time for…

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  • Rails Resources

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    Today is a round up of resources for learning Ruby on Rails. Many of these were given to me by Miles at coderpath and the guys at FV.rb. Working with Rails a site for all of those that are involved with Ruby on Rails. There is a cool ranking system that encourages you to participate…

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  • New Business Card

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    I recently redesigned my portfolio site and also redesigned my branding. Today I just wanted to show off my new business card. Love to hear feedback and see links to anyone else’s card.

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  • Your Clients Best Interest

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    When clients come to you to do a job they do it with the belief that you are the best person they can find for the job. Often if we are honest with ourselves we are not the best person for the whole job. With very few exceptions there is always someone better at user…

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  • Google Conversion Optimizer

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    I attended a webinar on Google Conversion Optimizerrecently and had to write a summary for work that I thought I would share with everyone. I don’t profess to be an expert (that’s why I went) so if there are things I am missing let me know. What is the Conversion Optimizer? At it’s core the…

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