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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
When I'm not designing for the web, I enjoy music, go to concerts and play with gadgets.

Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

Reinventing the Wheel

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

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 [...]

FontAgent Pro 3 Doesn’t Suck

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

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 [...]

Two Weeks Off

Saturday, December 18th, 2004

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 [...]

WDW Boston 2004 (Part 1)

Monday, December 13th, 2004

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) [...]

Adventures in Dentistry

Friday, December 10th, 2004

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 [...]

Wicked Worn Look (Made Easy)

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

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 [...]