mindgraffiti

mindgraffiti - noun; musings on creative work, publicly posted.

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I am a web developer for the API Web Services dept., where I learn a little more about cows and PHP every day.

Archive for April, 2008

Typography for Tuesday

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

First, a few design rules even us non-designers can remember and apply. Then a crash course in typography, followed by an excellent list of other fonts available to use on the web. Now that you have a handle on the basics, calculate a nice rhythm and typeset your web pages. Don’t forget- you can also [...]

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Jobs and Benefits Revisited

Friday, April 25th, 2008

When I first started working here I was astounded by the range of benefits I received. Angus Productions Inc.’s benefits are getting restructured, bit by bit…not sure what the catalyst was for these changes, but the good news is, most of them are getting improvements. Wages might be mum around here, but everyone knows about [...]

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An e-list design done right

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Please excuse the poor headline. It’s rough, just like the “designs” found in our e-lists.
When it comes to design, it doesn’t exist in the e-lists. Our customers dictate what they want and ignore any suggestions made on our part. Go ahead- glance through a few. I hated working on e-lists. It was detestable work, being [...]

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Thursday Finds

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Something Gorgeous
I have trouble creating beautiful designs, but no trouble identifying them. For anyone else in this same boat, here are some tools and ideas to help create respectable work, design already included:

Obsidian Dawn: beautiful PhotoShop brushes, to add a graceful artistic element to any print or web work.
Mad Mimi: prettier e-mail campaigns, with a [...]

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Future Projects and the IS Team

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

As Sale season comes to an end, I’m looking forward to fewer updates and developing some new projects. Last week Web Services (that’s us) had a meeting with Information Services (think of the Apple commercial where PC meets Mac). It was funny, yet nerve-wracking. Here were the desktop programmers, neatly dressed to the nines, with [...]

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