Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Make Mundane Tasks Fun Online for Conversions
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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 [...]
What Type of Experience Do You Provide
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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 If you don’t keep track of the latest developments you can quite quickly find yourself using outdated techniques.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 [...]
Bad Forms Provide Bad Feedback
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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. [...]
You Might Need a Redsign If
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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 decision You have rotating graphics on your site You have used the blink tag You have used b or i tags You’re updating content regularly without a CMS You’ve [...]
Scope Creep and the In House Designer
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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 [...]
Take your Website to the Dentist
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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 [...]
The News: IE 8 may not suck and the freelancer bootcamp
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
What I feel is the biggest news of the day is the fact that IE 8 now passes the Acid 2 test. So it may be that we won’t hate IE as much in the future. Admittedly we will still have to wait for IE 6 to die. Over at Freelancer Magazine there has been [...]
The News: Firefox is alive, seo, and some marketing advice
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today is a great day for web designer’s. It seems that Firefox is finally over 20% of the market share in browsers. Firefox is awesome, and it is wonderful to see it reach this milestone. Hopefully this really pushes IE to be standards compliant instead of the PITA that all web designers are familiar with. [...]
The Daily News: WordPress 2.7 and pricing your projects
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
How about we start the day with some twitter inspiration. Use the link to check out some creative twitter backgrounds and get some inspiration for designing your own. I know mine could sure use a refresh. Next up today is some feature previews for WordPress 2.7, which I am really excited about. Overall the interface [...]
Is Crowdsourcing the Answer?
Friday, October 31st, 2008
I just read an article on Sitepoint about Crowdsourcing for Freelancers. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, crowdsourcing is when you put your project up on a site (99designs, Crowdspring…) and get multiple options for the design. You then pick one and pay for that. I feel that it basically amounts to spec [...]
