Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Data Driven Design, Part 1
When I started designing websites in 7th grade everything I did was based on what “looked cool” (and I promise, none of it looked cool). When I started designing blogs and websites for clients, I still focused quite a bit on what “looked cool” and a lot less on information architecture, color choices, and […]
Simplifying Signup Forms
If your website has a signup form, make it simple. Users do not want to spend 5 minutes giving you every detail of their lives. They want to spend 5 seconds giving you an email and a password. You don’t need to use OpenID (I have never bothered making an OpenID account).
Realignment of the Four Hour Work Week Blog
I recently had the privilege of working with Tim Ferriss, the author of Four Hour Work Week, to redesign his blog. A redesign is a bit of a strong term - Tim and I didn’t drastically change the blog’s look and feel as Darren and I did with the ProBlogger redesign.
Redesign of Problogger.net
In late May Darren Rowse, the Problogger, asked me if I’d be interested in redesigning his blog Problogger.net. About two years ago I think I saw Problogger for the first time and it was the place I learned a lot about blogging - best practices, writing content, etc. Since then his RSS feed […]
Black and white and orange
The initial mockup of this design in Photoshop looks absolutely nothing like what you’re looking at now. It had a green background, 3 columns, s small footer and was probably a step backward from the previous version. After bouncing a few ideas off of Chris, this is what I have come up with.
Designing with WordPress, Part 1: Building a framework
The majority of my client work revolves around designing templates that need to be ported to WordPress. Anytime you’re doing a lot of work with one application, one programming language, or, in my case, one blog platform it makes sense to “streamline” your work environment.
So what do I do to increase my productivity? […]
