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First Impressons: Harmony, A Delightful Hosted CMS

Harmony is a hosted content management system by the talented folks at orderedlist. It’s built with developers, designers and their respective clients in mind. I know what you’re thinking, “no way they pulled that off elegantly”. Well, I’m afraid they did. They pulled it off quite brilliantly actually.

Excerpt from “Confessions of a Template Whore”

Generally that problem is that they don’t have a website, but sometimes it’s that they don’t have a website and don’t have any budget either…Solving both of those problems at the the same time is my job.

I’m all for keeping costs down and what a great way to defend the use of templates [...]

Designing for thine self

This is a topic I absolutely can’t keep to myself any longer. You’re a web designer and you rock the socks off client work and even stuff for friends and family. But when it comes to designing something for yourself, for example, your freelance businesses website, you go completely blank. It’s as if creative block [...]

Doing one thing well

I learned something very valuable at my current gig as a manager at a local convenience store. People learn a certain way to get things accomplished and that is how they will continue to accomplish pretty much everything. They often continuing down the same path even though it leads no where. It begs the question [...]

Why Designing for the Web in Photoshop Sucks

Web design is almost not even a real industry without Adobe Photoshop. I mean seriously, think about it. You can’t walk into any web designer’s office/workspace without seeing at least a trial of Photoshop. It’s a staple of web design. Well, a staple in any creative field for that matter. After all these years, I’ve [...]

5 Things Your Users Don’t Care to Hear

Software developers often have to wear multiple hats in the midst of time constraints, small teams and lack of support manpower. So it’s no secret that software developers naturally aren’t very good at providing support to users. As one who has been on both sides of the fence, it only makes to describe what users [...]

Where I talk about Typekit

If you have ever cared about designing a website, typography has always been an itch rarely scratched considering the support provided both legacy and modern browsers. But that is all changing right in front our eyes with such tools as Typekit and Kernest. Today I will talk about Typekit and why it’s not quite the [...]

Learning to love design again

It’s no secret that I once was a decent web designer. I loved everything about it from conception to development. But my wings were eventually clipped because it became more about the race (aka career) and not the craft. Needless to say, I haven’t designed much of anything as of late and the things I [...]

Avatar

It’s rare that a movie can actually make me feel really good at the end. Avatar is a James Cameron joint that had me on the edge of my seat for the full two and half hours and let me down nicely at the end.

Unfortunately lots of folks out there are scolding James [...]

The Twighlight Saga: New Moon

Whether you’ve read the books or not, you surely know of the Twilight series. It is a tale of a human girl and a vampire (and a werewolf) falling in love. If you enjoy werewolves and vampires fighting while caught in a love triangle, this is the ticket.

Although most (as in non-teenagers and mature highschoolers) [...]