May has been an unexpectedly busy month for – I’m working on a few big (and fun) projects that I can’t really say too much about yet, and I’m also completing an intense marketing course at Cal Poly with a graduate student (which is turning out to be incredibly educational). I don’t have much to Read more »
This week’s been exceptionally busy (sorry for the lack of posts here); I’ve got a great excuse though – two of them actually. First, I officially released the Iconic theme at ThemeForest. This was a big experiment for me as I haven’t actually released a fully coded site for purchase before. The first release was 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 »
I bring you the “Ultimate Web UI Kit“. Oh sure, the word ultimate is far overused nowadays, but honestly, I’m pretty sure if you’re a web designer who’s done more than one project that included mocking up a page with a lot of form fields, you’ll agree that this kit is long overdue. Over the Read more »
I’m going to share a design theory that I’ve been working on implementing into my own workflow for the past year or so: pixel perfect mockups. To some it might be obvious, but its a tenant so crucial to my own design process now that I’d say it’s been the single most influential idea that Read more »
This past September, when I launched my first blog, I did so with the basic intention of having a quick place to publish some of my freelance and personal work (well, the stuff that’s not under non-disclosure agreements). I blogged hard at first, then took a few months off while I was enrolled in a Read more »
I used to smirk at stock art… then I got a job – [Smutek via GoMedia] I came across an awesome conversation at GoMedia on the topic of stock art usage. The original topic revolves around the long-debated arguments for an against stock art, and it got me to thinking about how I use this Read more »
[UPDATED BELOW] The All Night’er is something that all of us have dated at one point or another in our lives. Staying up til’ 3am running on nothing but coffee and the knowledge that any sane person would be sleeping certainly isn’t a rarity in any case. And heck, it’s a little romantic the first Read more »
