I’ve been threatening to redesign my site for about a year now, and I keep putting it off. I’d like to redesign it for a couple of reasons. Primarily, because it’s had the same design for an awfully long time. But also, I’d like to have a few more things on my home page. Things [...]
For a designer, font management is a necessary evil. It’s just not practical to have 5,000 fonts active in your System Folder. I know this, because I activated all 5,414 of my fonts when I first tried to use OS X’s built-in font manager – Font Book. It slowed my computer to such a crawl [...]
I really meant to write more about the WDW conference, but now that I have the rest of this month, I’m trying to not think about work things as much. I haven’t had two weeks of no work (and no classes) since summer break of junior high. I’m going to try and take advantage of [...]
Ok, I’m comfortable enough now that I don’t have to break into my prescription of Hydrocodone. So now I can briefly cover Web Design World in Boston. First Rule: Don’t Miss the First Lunch I cannot stress how important it is to get to the first day’s lunch on time. You’ll make (or not make) [...]
I just got back from Web Design World 2004 in Boston. i’d love to tell you about it, but today I had to get a tooth extracted due to a childhood filling gone renegade. Between being sedated, having a tooth yanked, and subsequently being medicated for pain, I’m just not feeling that chatty. However the [...]
I’m a big fan of the Authentic Boredom site. Great information about design, an interesting blog, plus cool links and resources. Best of all, is his four-part tutorial distressed design style called That Wicked Worn Look. Well that look just got a lot easier a lot cheaper. Not that $32 for Mister Retro’s Machine Wash [...]