Musings of a freelance blog and website designer. Writing about my experiences in business, the internet, design, development and building an income online.
The news these days seem to paint two very different pictures regarding the economy and business today. There are the gloom and doom reports of crisis in all industries and cuts affecting so many families. Then there are the reports of things looking up because government efforts are working – the light at the end [...]
Posted on February 9, 2010 at 12:30 pm
The buzz has been around for years now, but increasingly more common is the proclamation that web standards is essential. It’s not just a good practice, it’s an essential requirement when designing and building great websites. Designers and developers definitely like to note that they design and code with web standards. However, do clients really [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Quite often these days, I have come across many instances of internet slander and non-constructive criticism on the web. The negativity seems to thrive in the online social world because people are shielded by anonymity or somehow feel more courageous when it comes to the physically protected action of posting comments online versus offering their [...]
Posted on April 29, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I saw a great piece of typographic art on morenewmath and I am sure many similar declarations have been made with the same point in mind. It made me chuckle and I sent it out to friends, as it applies to so many more aspects of life than just modern art per say. “I could [...]
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 10:51 am
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of articles in the design world that discuss different topics in the process of what we do. Interestingly enough, for me the discussions all boil down to a universal point about service – that the customer is always right. Those of us in the design business provide professional services [...]
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 10:44 am
When someone asks a designer what they do for a living, there’s always a slight pause for most multi-disciplinary designers out there. Simply stating the title of designer could lead to many varying conclusions from prospective clients – interior design, product design, stage productions? However, you seem to be understating your abilities if you say [...]
Posted on April 2, 2009 at 2:41 pm
AIGA believes that doing speculative work—that is, work done without compensation, for the client’s speculation—seriously compromises the quality of work that clients are entitled to and also violates a tacit, long-standing ethical standard in the communication design profession worldwide. AIGA strongly discourages the practice of requesting that design work be produced and submitted on a [...]
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 11:00 am
Designers and coders alike talk about web standards and coding web pages using CSS-based layouts to separate design from content. The norm for web development makes everything easier to update and faster to load amongst other benefits – what we would call the right way of doing things or at least the idea of designing [...]
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Being a web designer for hire, I am often approached by prospective clients with many different inquiries. I have found that people usually fall into a couple major categories. There are those who don’t think they need a website at all. Then there are beginners who are not sure what they need or exactly the [...]
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I first started blogging online nearly 10 years ago. It was an outlet for my random opinions and rants in life – plus it was the latest trend. Everyone had a blog, right? I stopped after a few years when the activity seemed frivolous to me. I no longer wanted to rant randomly and did [...]
Posted on March 27, 2009 at 10:03 am
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