-
I Quit
That’s right, I quit. I know I have said it before and talked about it many times, but I am really doing it this time. I am quitting freelancing.
September 27th, 2011
-
Find Your Navigation
An experiment I did to help decide the structure of a site. I took a few 3x5 blank index cards and wrote the title of the page names, categories and subcategories (basically all main structures) on each card. Then we sorted this pile to help make sense of the navagation.
August 7th, 2011
-
iPad Photo Credit
A quick way to give credit where credit is do on an iPad. This is a quick little jQuery script that will show the photo credit when the image is touched.
June 7th, 2011
-
WordPress different file extensions
For what ever reason I had a difficult time find this solution. It seemed like most of the articles where out of date. Please let me know if you need any help. Just add this to your functions.php in your theme directory.
April 11th, 2011
-
StartupBus Countdown
I just wanted to share some insights to days before the bus ride. It will help help me remember all the details. T-6 Days: I start of the day meeting some other Buspreneurs. Kristen Byers, Lu Doan & Josh Schwartzman. We are tasked with creating the 2011 StartupBus website, for the most part there is
March 7th, 2011
-
StartupBus 2011
Sound the trumpets, I made it on the StartupBus. I can not tell you how overly excited I am to have this opportunity. So you might be asking yourself "What the hell is the StartupBus?". Well follow me along this little journey and I will tell you from start to finish. We began this story
March 1st, 2011
-
NYC Web Design Meetup
I just got back from the NYC Web Design Meetup and for the most part I really enjoyed it. I had the opportunity to listen to someone I look up to in our community, Khoi Vinh, speak about "the online news industry, sharing his experience as the design director at NYTimes.com and his insight into
February 28th, 2011
-
Polaroid (PSD)
I recently had to work on a little project that I required some polaroid images. I figured I would release for all to use.
February 20th, 2011
-
How old do you feel?
Last night someone asked me how old I was. I responded back with "I am 23….I mean 26". Now granted I just said the first thing that popped in my head, but that had me thinking why I said it. Did I just forget or was there some other meaning. Of course me over thinking
February 18th, 2011
-
Thoughts on designing for the iPad
I recently had the opportunity to design for the iPad and I thought I would share what I have learned so far. Think Touch not Click One of the hardest things to grasp in the beginning was that I was no longer designing for the mouse. You have to rethink the meaning of headers, sidebars,
February 4th, 2011
-
Embed RSS Feeds into your website
After hours of looking for a simple & reliable way to post Atom, RSS, or Media RSS feeds on a website I have finally found a solution. Today we will be going over Google Feed API and how to set it up on your site. I also want to make a note that it is
January 12th, 2011
-
Stick to your guns
About six months ago I started to build a website for a talented musician named Kevin Anderson. I first heard about him when I was listening to Jango and one thing led to another and I was building him a website. Not only do I love his music, he is a kickass person. We still
November 27th, 2010
-
Aidan's Monsters
You want to do something good today? With the power of social media I stumbled across the story about 5 year old boy name Aidan diagnosed with Leukemia. Aidan is selling his drawings of monsters to help pay for the medical bills. I just purchased a wonderful piece of art for my office at work.
October 27th, 2010
-
Image Replacement
Image replacement always seems to be up to debate. Today I am going to show you how I do it and some of the reasoning behind why.
October 24th, 2010
-
Droid 2 attack
Do not ask me to play thumb wars anytime soon. Today I was attacked by my Droid 2. The phone was running a bit slow so I decided to preform a battery pull. And that is when my whole life flashed in front of me. I try to pull down the back pannel and it
October 6th, 2010
-
Lost at sea with little hope
It was a Wednesday after noon with nothing going on. I get a phone call with desperation on the other end, it was my kid brother. "Hey what are you doing? The jet ski is not working, it won’t turn on." With nothing better going on, I decided to investigate and get out of the
August 28th, 2010
-
PSA: Use a CMS
I am now dead inside because of this. I was working on a project that did not have a CMS...and they refused to use one. So I had to edit each of these files durning a redesign. You might be asking yourself why did you take on this project. Truth be told I was working
August 28th, 2010
-
Godaddy: Increase upload max filesize
Today I will show you how to increase you file upload limit if you have a Godaddy shared hosting plan. Why would you want to do this? To increase the size of your upload of course!
August 24th, 2010
-
Black T-Shirt
So the other day I was reading 12 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpractice and one of the items was talking about "Assuming K=100 is Black".
August 19th, 2010
-
Simple Google map with custom icon
For whatever reason I could not find a simple Google map with one point with a custom icon. So ventured on and came upon
August 17th, 2010
-
Tom Green Site Redesign
I have been a huge fan of Tom Green for as long as I can remember. I used to watch The Tom Green Show religiously and still enjoy his movies today. A few years ago I discovered that he is still producing
August 1st, 2010
-
Monkey Bread
A great dessert for 2. Have fun pulling the bread apart with a fork or get messy with your fingers.
July 9th, 2010
-
Simple Business Card Idea
This is going to be my new business card. What do you guys think? The top is the front and the bottom is the back.
March 23rd, 2010
-
How do you charge?
I have noticed there is several way to charge clients and a lot of debate about each way. So, I once again called upon the experts in our field.
March 18th, 2010
-
CS-Cart Permalinks
I wanted to have nice, clean, friendly URL links.
October 23rd, 2010
-
E-commerce preferences from the best
"Which E-commerce should I go with?"" is often a hot topic in any post related to E-commerce.
July 18th, 2010
-
PHP Extension "mcrypt" must be loaded PHP Extension "curl" must be loaded
I ran into this little problem after watching "Easy E-Commerce With Magento" tut over at NetTuts
July 7th, 2010
