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posted on Mar 8, 2011.
This is an article about education. It’s also an article about process, about personal evolution and even about unintentional snobbery. It’s about not just looking at where we are but remembering where we came from. There is a recurring metaphor (and sometimes not a metaphor) about your client’s nephew—you know, the kid who charges a [...]
posted on Mar 3, 2011.
I’m a big fan of CSS frameworks, and the immense benefits that they bring to my work as a web designer and developer. In this article, I would like to look at some of the reasons why I use these types of tools and even consider some of the criticisms that have been laid against them.
posted on Feb 23, 2011.
The standard method of marking up site navigation and menus has pretty much unchanged for more than a decade now. With the arrival of HTML5, however, I believe that it is changing. In this article, we’re going to take a very brief look at the traditional way of coding menus, contrast it against what I believe to be the better HTML5 method, and even show you how to make it work in primarily-XHTML-based environments.
posted on Feb 19, 2011.
How do you measure success as a designer or developer? Is it all about the money, or are the other factors? In this guest post, Jeremy Carlson will consider a number of different factors that can be used to measure our levels of success.
posted on Feb 8, 2011.
In any well designed typeface, every character (or glyph) is meticulously and carefully crafted to work within a very specific typographic system. Sometimes, that system can be tight and rigid, and other times it can be much looser. Either way, the system is critical, and I believe that as designers we need to respect that system, and the integrity of the typeface. In this post, I’ll explain why.
posted on Feb 5, 2011.
There’s a debate in the design and development community about which Content Management System is the “best” available tool out there (assuming that you haven’t written your own). I won’t be trying to answer that question in this article, but would rather like to introduce a slightly different perspective on some important considerations that should go into making that choice.
posted on Feb 2, 2011.
In this post, I would like to take a look at Dribbble, the popular social networking/sharing site aimed specifically at designers. More specifically, I would like to consider how it can function in relation to and in conjunction with your portfolio.
posted on Jan 26, 2011.
As a designer, I’ve found that my work can be full of highs and lows. Sometimes I can pumped and excited, while other times I feel drained and useless. Usually, I feel all of these things within the scope of the same project. In this post, I would like to share some recent observations on this cycle of emotion.
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