Available Now! The book that I had been working on a few months ago has finally been published! Working with the incredible group of Allan Cole, Raena Jackson Armitage & Jeffrey Way, we’ve put together a book that takes you from start to finish with designing, building, and selling WordPress themes. Take a minute to Read more »
Planning will help boost your creativity, save you time, and make you look like a rockstar to clients! If you’re looking to up your game as a web designer, the planning phase is probably the single most “bang for your buck” skill-set that you could possible work on. Sometimes it seems that in the dizzying Read more »
The Z-Layout is a great way to start just about any web design project because it addresses the core requirements for any effective site: branding, hierarchy, structure, and call to action. While it would be nearly impossible to claim that the classic “Z-Layout” is the perfect solution for each and every website out there, it’s Read more »
This is an editorial and by golly, this is an issue that every designer should have on his or her mind at the moment, so grab a cup of coffee and get comfy! First – in full disclosure – I started creating stock templates about a year ago after spending nearly a decade freelancing and Read more »
WordPress is increasingly becoming one of the most influential technologies on the web thanks to an incredibly powerful admin panel, a myriad of ready to use premium themes, and tons of useful plugins. I personally switched over to using WordPress solely as my technology of choice about 3 years ago when I realized just how Read more »
Wow! So it’s been an incredibly busy summer for me so far… so busy that I haven’t written a proper blog post in several weeks now (or is it months?). Either way, I’m back and I have some major notifications to post. First, the news from June/July: June 2009. Jury Duty! Ugh – I was Read more »
The recent redesign of Facebook (in addition to a client that simply insisted that I adapt his design for a Myspace page), has prompted some curious morbidity on my part. Admittedly, this whole topic of the beauty of social networking design is completely missing the point – the purpose of these apps is to drive Read more »
For better or worse, the stock art marketplace has become a permanent fixture of the design & web development world. Ignore it at your own peril. In a previous post, I introduced my new plan to begin investigating the value of affiliate networks and selling stock artwork. This post will dig into the latter. Rich Read more »
