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When I first offered web design services, I used to start the project by designing site mock-ups using placeholder photos and copy. Later I would plug in the “real” content. The problem I encountered over an over again was that the real content didn’t fit where the placeholder content used to be. I would design [...]
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. When you are scoping a new website project, you’ll ideally start the process by appearing to be an expert and having done this kind of work before. How you set it up in the beginning establishes many precedences that stick throughout the project. Clients [...]
I suck at bookmarking. I’ve tried a number of times to get social bookmarking accounts going for me, but I’m never quite sure when it’s time to save a resource nor what to tag or rate it. Over time, though, I have noticed a few key resources that I seem to reference often when discussing [...]
This post is important to me for two reasons: 1) People rarely share their process in detail so I’m excited to break down that wall, and 2) I need your help to perfect it for the group.
The reality is that project management is one of the great unsolved problems in the creative and technical worlds, [...]
Are you an Internet strategist? SEOer? Do you do SEM? SMO? Do you make websites? Do you know Web 2.0? Are you a web designer? Web developer?
What exactly do you do?
I hear these questions all the time. It’s a challenge these days to describe the work I do, which is not because I’m unclear, rather [...]
I’ve recently been writing a few posts about the evolution of web design, particularly the impact of rich media, namely Flash, on modern web design. Other web design thinkers, such as Jeff Croft, have also been thinking about the new era of web design and the problems we need to address.
I started this blog in September of 2006 in the fashion I recommend to my clients, which is to grow a blog, not build one. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted it to look and how to structure the content, but I also wanted to wait and see what content I [...]
I recently wrote about the new video era. The basic idea was that because of limited bandwidth and lack of technological answers, Internet video has not been a threat to the stranglehold of broadcast TV. Users still want HD quality video and full digital surround sound when they are watching Grey’s Anatomy. Comcast is one [...]
I just had a really good conversation with some of my fellow designers and developers at NEMO Design about designing for the web. Our conversation began from Josh’s frustration with the positioning power of CSS, which evolved the discussion into one about tables vs. CSS vs. Flash. At first we all fell into the traditional [...]
So, the other day I was having trouble eliminating gaps between an image and the top of an unordered list. I was trying to make a box with rounded corners to look like a giftcard. No matter what I tried, there was a 2 pixel space between the top and bottom graphics and the list. [...]
I am the founder of Beer and Blog. I love the Internet, drums, socializing, and a good Scotch. I like go karts, R/C helicopters, and snowboarding. My wife, Christine, and I have two cute dogs and we all live in Portland, OR. We think Portland is awesome.