Work

Feline Co-Worker

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

This is one of the benefits of working from home. Now if I can just get her to learn how to use Photoshop.

Maybe I’m Not a Smart Businessman

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Time after time I am approached by potential web design clients that ask me what my monthly rate is to perform updates on their sites. The quick answer to their question is that I don’t have one. Many times they look at me like I am an idiot…that is until I tell them my stance [...]

Dear Field Notes, You Are My Hero

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

About 6 months ago (maybe a little longer), I discovered Field Notes by Coudal Partners. I was looking for something cheap and lightweight to carry with me at all times to keep track of random thoughts, client meeting notes, and random doodles. These note books were definitely the answer. Rarely do I leave the house [...]

I’m a Winner! CSS-TRICKS.COM Rocks!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

A website that I frequent regularly in my thirst of learning more and more about CSS and other web development techniques had a contest going on last week. The prize was to be a book on learning JQuery. I entered my name in the contest and today I got an email saying I had won! [...]

Too Honest For My Own Good?

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Sometimes I get the feeling that perhaps I am too honest. Case in point. Today I had a web design client contact me via email saying that they wanted to completely redo their website because they thought it was too boring. They sent me the link to the site in question and I thought exactly [...]

Shout Out From Friends

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Some of you may already know that I made the Austin Surfboards website…if not , go check it out at www.austinsurfboards.com. I also just finished a blog for them to try to capture more links to their site and they put up a shout out about me on the new blog. Thanks guys, I feel [...]

Asleep on the Job

Monday, November 17th, 2008

How am I going to be able to teach this cat web design if she keeps sleeping on the job? They don’t make interns like they used to.

CSS & SEO Ain’t So Scary: A List of Resources

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Over the past month, while things are slow at work, I have been immersing myself into learning new things about web design and search engine optimization. What once seemed scary and definitely intimidating (Cascading Style Sheets and Search Engine Optimization), is not longer as big of an obstacle thanks to a few books. The following [...]

The Yellow Pages Are So 2000

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

So today I was driving down the road and noticed a guy beside me at a stoplight whose truck bed was filled with telephone books. I am guessing that he is one of the poor souls that delivers those books year after year. In my opinion his efforts are worthless. When are marketers going to [...]

Choose a Different Font!

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I don’t claim to be a world class graphic designer (because I’m not), but I do have something to say about clients and their font choices. It seems to me that non-designers think that the only fonts available to them are the ones that are pre-installed on their computers. All the time, when designing logos, [...]

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