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iPhoto plus Photon plus MT
A helpful little walkthrough by Doug Bowman at Stop Design on using Photon (a $10 program by Daikini software) to export photos from iPhoto to a MovableType blog. Very useful.
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Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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Quick Take
Google search update
Crazy. I’m listed as #4 for a search for “Web Design Blog” on google. Not that millions of people search for that I guess. It’s still kinda cool :) What’s weird is that I haven’t done much with this blog in over a month. I feel like I should pick it back up or something. […]
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Web design as architechture
Another gem from my hero D. Keith Robinson of asterisk Web design like building a house (a serious metaphor) A beautiful analogy: Looking at this metaphor in relation to professional Web design now we seem to be building quite a few functional log cabins, and a whole bunch of pretty dollhouses that no-one can live […]
Commentary
If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…
I’ve seen this in a few places around the Web and in E-mail forwards. It’s a fun caricature of the frustrations of working with some clients. Note: I’ve never had a client that has looked like this (except for various University committees…) ————————————— Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am […]
Reflection
The Path to Enlightenment (or How I Became and Elitist Web Design Nazi)
I Have been developing Web pages for almost 5 years now (we are coming up on my anniversary). Today I did some looking back to how I got here. I spent the first three and a half years in relative naivet�, basically learning the rudimentary basics of HTML syntax (by using WYSIWYG programs); learning which […]
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PHP Newbie Mistakes
I definitely found this article useful. I’m a PHP hack. I’ve been coding with it for a few years, I make it work well, but I’ve never been that technically excellent with it. PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid from Digital Web.
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Giving and Recieving Criticism
UIWeb had an interesting article about giving and receiving criticism. This looks to be useful in many areas besides Web design as well. Synopsis: Assumptions bad critics make There is one universal and objective measure of how good and bad anything is. That the critic is in sole possession of the skill in making these […]
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Content Management Process
*GASP* Content Management without a hugely expensive, unnecessary, bloated, proprietary system? Never… D. Keith Robinson on Content Management without a System. Shocking. Who would have guessed that the publication process could be more important than the technology?
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CSS in Content Management Systems
About two-thirds of my time at work is spent banging my head against some sort of content management system. One that I am in the process of developing, and another hulking behemoth that I have been asked to “help” with. If I were ever to build another CMS up from scratch (which I am currently […]
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Creative Conflict
I hate conflict. I try to avoid it. When it comes up, I usually take the role of peacemaker, sometimes even giving up what I see to be a good solution in order to resolve the conflict. D. Keith Robinson of Asterisk has recently posted two great articles on dealig with conflict: Dealing With Creative […]
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Eyetrack III – How people scan a site
An interesting (if unscientific) investigation (I won’t call it a study…) into how people look at/scan/browse a Web page was recently conducted by several media agencies. Eyetrack III, sought to answer a few questions of great interest to Web designers: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to […]
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Critiquing design work
Dave Shea of Mezzoblue (who is a great designer btw) on design critics: I�m almost convinced that anyone whose critique of a redesign is as substantial as: �I don�t like the green.� �is someone who absolutely fails to understand the purpose of web design, and should give up any aspirations in the profession. And my […]