Reconsidering My Stance On Flash

Since I’ve recently taken a step back from certain aspects of website design and development (specifically hosting, coding and marketing), I’m delving more and more into the layout and aesthetic concerns of creating a website. That doesn’t mean that I don’t go through the proper discovery steps that precede the design phases, but since I […]

Designing Email Newsletters Properly

Mr/Mrs Client:
“Whip me together a quick newsletter to send to my subscribers. Oh, and make it look like this design”…
I am then handed a design created by a print designer. Background images, fancy fonts, overlaying text etc.
“It needs to look exactly like that and must work in all mail clients.”
Wow, thanks… I’ll get right on […]

Stage One Of My Re-Branding - The Logo

I’ve decided that I am going to re-brand myself. Starting with a new logo. Quite honestly, I’m sick of my glassy globe with cheesily gradiented AD.
The direct metaphor of the earth representing the “world” wide web being the audience of my creations is replaced with a pretty direct graphic representing design in the form of […]