08 Dec 2008 • [4]
Often when a client sends over photographs they’d like to use for their websites, they were taken with a less-than-professional camera and the colors, in a word, suck. Over or under-exposed, a bad picture can really diminish the beautiful website you’ve designed.
This weekend I helped a friend put a couple snapshots of her Thanksgiving party into a simple online photo gallery to share with her friends & family, but the colors in her pics were just terrible. So I showed her this quick technique I picked up way back in a Black and White Photography class I took in college that you can use to spice up your photos in Photoshop
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07 Oct 2008 • [5]
Context is something that we web and graphic designers deal with on a daily basis. We juggle color, typeface, imagery, C.R.A.P.(Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) to convey a particular message or tone.
Our clients aren’t watching as we sift through two hundred pages on iStock or play with seemingly indiscernible color variations in kuler to find just the right photo or palette to set the mood of their homepage. We don’t do it to run up the hours, we do it because we care, because we understand how powerful a single image or choice of color can impact people. Yes, I’m going somewhere with this.
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30 Sep 2008 • [1]
Yep, it’s that time of the year again where I try to do a small part for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by participating in Pink for October.
For those keeping score I rocked the pink last year to rave reviews, so grab one of these Twitter patterns or a a badge for your site and get on board.
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23 Jul 2008 • [17]
It’s no secret that those of us who do professional web design/development despise Internet Explorer 6. With IE 7 out for a while and IE 8 on the horizon, more and more leading companies and web folk are pressing ahead and dropping / degrading support for the ancient browser.
With Firefox share steadily rising and standards-champions Opera and Safari readily available, is it time for us as modern web designers/developers to press the issue and speed up adoption of modern browsers by no longer supporting Internet Explorer 6?
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09 Jul 2008 • [7]
So I like to keep tabs on the web design jobs at Craigslist, as every now and then an interesting freelance gig pops up. Or I’ll come across a job post that might interest one of my friends.
But I also keep tabs on the web design jobs at Craigslist because the services most people post listings for are ridiculously out of line with what they expect to pay.
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