Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Taking a job

November 14th, 2006 / 4 Comments / design

Before I had finished the b5media redesign Aaron was already asking me if I was interested in more work. Being a student, money disappears from my bank account relatively quickly, so how can I turn down some more money?

The b5media redesign

November 5th, 2006 / 2 Comments / design

In early October I was sent an email by the guys at b5media asking whether I would be interested in working with them on a project that had a tight deadline. I’d heard of b5 and read their main blog a few times, but I wasn’t a regular reader and didn’t know any of […]

The new b5media launches

November 3rd, 2006 / 5 Comments / design

I’ve been working for a few weeks now on redesigning the new b5media site and it finally went live tonight. There are still a few minor details being worked out with the pages, but it’s done on my end (I think).
I will write a more “in depth” post sometime this weekend explaining decisions I […]

The economics of web design pricing

October 12th, 2006 / 10 Comments / design

I’ve always been a fan of economics. I took my first microeconomics class in college and thought that be able to prove just about anything using a few graphs was the coolest thing in the world. The real life applications of economics is incredible, the uses extend past simple supply and demand situations […]

My first digg

September 10th, 2006 / 1 Comment / design

I wrote a post for The Blog Herald the other day (where I am the design-columnist guy) and it made the digg.com front page!
The post, called CSS tips and tricks, is just 5 simple tips to help people new to CSS/XHTML get a grip on “best practices.”
It was the first story I’ve written that […]

Achieve-IT! blog design

August 26th, 2006 / 8 Comments / design

I recently finished up a design for Brad Isaac’s blog called Achieve-IT! It was a fun project to work on and Brad has some great posts at his site, so doing the “research” was pretty fun.
Brad wanted a traditional blog that was “spiced up” a bit. I like taking traditional blog layouts […]