Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’

New site design

I’m redesigning my site. If you’ve been around here at all, you’re probably thinking “but Chat, you just did that in December!” Well, yes, I did. But that was more of a triage. Taking a broken website and fixing it so that it had the bare minimum usability.

One thing I’m very proud of with the current design: total images for the entire site (not counting any images I add for specific posts, like this one) are about 3.7kb. You read that right. 3.7 kilobytes. Not 370 kilobytes. Not 37 kilobytes. 3.7.

March 7th, 2010
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10 Sources for WordPress Design Inspiration

Creating a website can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve never done it before. More and more people are turning to blog software like WordPress to get a site up and running with very little effort and even less know-how. Free themes let them quickly choose a theme that works for their needs, whether those needs are running a business or talking about their cat (I’m obligated to mention talking about cats whenever talking about blogging in a broad sense. Thank you for that media.)

February 14th, 2010
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Design & Developer Jobs in Austin

Looking to hire a web designer or developer in the Austin area? Are you a web designer or developer looking for work in the Austin area? I’ve posted a few helpful resources after the jump.

February 7th, 2010
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Web Application Development: the Changing Battlefield of Web Design

Apple’s supporting HTML5 for video over Flash players. Google has a browser-based OS coming out and leveraging HTML5 makes a lot of sense there as well. That’s a shot directly at Microsoft. Frankly, if the club being used is an open standard, I’m okay with that, but larger questions are being raised…

January 29th, 2010
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Asking the Right Questions

A lot of people think designers just make things pretty. We don’t. First and foremost we solve problems. Problems that usually start with a question and, sometimes, we need to ask ourselves if we’re asking the right question.

July 13th, 2009
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Vendor Client Relationships

Found:

June 29th, 2009
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UX Team of One Panel (Unedited Notes from Presentation)

These are the unedited notes I took during the SXSW panel. Sub-lists aren’t indented so I’ll need to come back and format later. No guarantee I’ll actually do that so hopefully she’ll publish her presentation.

Put away the computer
Start with a six-up template:

A piece of paper with six thumbnail boxes

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March 15th, 2009
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