Guest Speaking Today

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I am visiting my alma mater this evening to speak to the Interactive Digital Media majors who are preparing to graduate, so I will not have time to write Thursday’s post Tuesday and Thursday’s post will come on Wednesday. This is going to be fun!
I suspect some of the questions will be:

How much do you [...]

Essential Reading for Future Web Designers & Developers

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

“It’s back to school time!” blares every tacky, family-oriented commercial. And so it is.
Real Hackers don’t use CSS a walk through the design process, from tables and frames to CSS.
Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt or, cutting through the stupid B.S. in office politics/bad group projects so you don’t get dragged down with [...]

The Design Process - Behind the Scenes, Part 2 Redux

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

You can read The Design Process from the Client’s View and The Design Process - Behind the Scenes, Part 1 if you want to start from the beginning, or read the summary below. Any italicized or emphasized words are jargon used at my company.
An Overview
From the Client’s View
The client decides they need a web site [...]

Kaizen: Gardiner Angus Ranch

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

I would like to preface this project with a short reflection. The Gardiners are nice people. They are always polite, like many of our clients. And yet, what truly makes them stand out from our other clients is their ability to trust.
When a new customer comes to us and asks for a new web [...]

CSS Progress

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

A few notable websites that I have switched over to CSS layouts:
National Swine Registry - This one was a challenge because they have one URL, but wanted it to look like three separate sites: the National Junior Swine Association (NJSA), International Marketing, and the main site, National Swine Registry (NSR). It came to me as [...]