Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
The least important part of designing a WordPress Theme.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
The least important part of designing a WordPress Theme is the header. There I’ve said it. It is the least important part for three reasons:
- It is the first thing anyone will see on your site. The header is also the thing that everyone sees on your site.
- Since designers know the header is the first thing everyone sees, they normally have preconceived ideas of how a header will look or fit in with the design.
- Because the header is first and foremost, that means you need to be spending all of your other time on the other parts of the site which should look as amazing as your preconceived header because a truly engaged reader should want to look at each part of your site, not just the content but the layout and design of the site that the content lives in.
Posted in Design, Themes | 1 Comment »
I’ll be in NYC next week
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
I’ll be in New York City from Saturday the 14th until Wednesday the 18th. I’ll be attending the Sunday mini-camp of WordCamp NYC and also I’ll be heading to Tuesday conference of the Future of Web Design by Carsonified. I was at FOWD last year and had a blast, so hopefully this year will be just as amazing.
If you will be attending either of these events, or live in the area and want to get together, either follow me on Twitter and send me a tweet, or leave me a message here and I can try to make arrangements.
Posted in Blogging, Design | 1 Comment »
“Web Designers are the Construction Workers of the Online World”
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A recent friend made that comparison over lunch the other day. He made the comparison back 20 years ago you could always find a construction worker, everyone wanted homes built. Now, web devs seem almost to be a dime a dozen and everyone is looking to get their piece of web real estate.
That being said, I’ve taken a step back to look at my own experiences. Having worked primarily on back end dev, (database development for lendingheart.com, database interaction on foodfightfiesta.com…) it can be difficult to properly explain or demonstate the work of a backend web developer. I’ve been taking some steps to create documents explaining the work I’ve done, particularly to show the physical interaction between UI and data layers of content.
Particularly as someone looking to gain more experience and hopefully pick up a full time job as a designer of developer being able to not only show your work, but also explain the function of it, is crucial for my future success.
If web designers are the contruction workers of a generation past, how do you differentiate yourself from your peers?
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DataDial.net
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Given my current need for a job, I’ve begun to scour the Internet looking for places to work. Last night I found DataDial.net which is a development company which focuses in many web mastering aspects. The company works as a full service design, development and marketing company. From looking at their job postings, they are looking for employees with knowledge of current technologies and standards.
With focus on email marketing, SEO, and Internet Marketing this company really seems to stand out over many other companies I’ve seen in the past few months. By offering these marketing services on top of their design and development they seem to be offering the “complete package” to their customers.
I think I’ll be sending an email to them shortly 
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