web design

Testing Drupal 7

January 30, 2011

The content management system Drupal recently came out with their latest version which is supposed to make it easier than ever to get started. It may be easier than ever, but it is still over my head after playing around with it for a while. Step 1. Watch the Getting Started with Drupal 7 Video [...]

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Foundries/designers often promote themselves by releasing a free font. This drives traffic to their site and awareness to their brand/style. Below are examples of two quality typefaces I have come across recently, Lobster and Franchise Bold. For more free fonts check out Font Squirrel. It seems that the fonts available have undergone a quality filter, [...]

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elance.com + 99designs.com – I have been reading a lot about spec work recently. This post from Chris Brogan got me up to speed. Spec work is when an individual/company asks a community of designers for work, lets say a logo. 50 designers submit 50 logos and one gets picked as the best and gets [...]

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I love playing around with WordPress themes. By keeping the content seperate from the skin, WordPress makes it easy to preview your blog in different themes. I must download about five every month just to try them out. I had heard about the Thesis Theme from Chris Brogan‘s site and also saw other positive reviews. [...]

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Experimenting with Flash for Elemental Harmonics Being in school for graphic design and having the drummer of a band as a good friend lead to many nights of experimental work using his band as my imaginary client. With a futuristic and ethereal sound, Elemental Harmonics demanded a site that reflected their music. The idea was [...]

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A study in both Flash and experimental web design, The Art of Drunken Poetry is a micro-site dedicated to bringing the user into the world of Charles Bukowski’s poetry. Bukowski would sit in a dingy L.A. bar with his typewriter and create poetry that is both brutal and honest, and elegant at the same time. [...]

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