Things every website needs

Char at Essential Keystrokes recently posted a really good “Thursday Thirteen” entititled Thirteen Things Every Website Needs. She writes about having an “elevator speech” and   Read More »

I need this

Coolest Workspace Contest: The Treadputer – Lifehacker It’s hard to imaging typing and walking at the same time- a little like patting your head and   Read More »

Performancing for Firefox- review

Now that I have four separate blogs going, I decided to try a blog editor to see if it would make things simpler. Logging in   Read More »

My new favorite social networking tool

I was a latecomer to MyBlogLog. Not being a fan of lots of clutter in sidebars, when I began to see it, I thought maybe   Read More »

Learn to use Illustrator through tutorials

There are some people for whom it is easiest to learn a complex program by reading a book. For me, the best way to learn   Read More »

The best new words

2006 was, according to some, the year that the number of words in the English language reached 1 million. No wonder it’s the most difficult   Read More »

Too much information?

I’ve recently begun to see the Twitter widget in the sidebar of blogs here and there, and like this post at Lifehack.org, I have wondered   Read More »

Design Process 3

Once the comp is approved by the client, I start the process of moving the design from Illustrator to code. Sometimes I will use Illustrator’s   Read More »

Design Process 2

Inspiration has struck. Now what? Before I do anything, I decide on a color scheme. There is a lot of information out there about “color   Read More »

Design Process 1- Great designers steal?

Having not been formally trained in graphic design, I am always curious about other designers’ process . Some years ago, I was sure I was   Read More »