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• A Little Moo Therapy

  I found some retail therapy while selecting images for some Moo minicards.
  It didn’t take long and that one hour away from concepts, mockups and code in the wee hours of the night was bliss.
  (Apologies for May being so dry with a lack of postings. It really has been nutty!)
  Here’s a sampling of some of my [...]

  Posted on Jun 08.08 to classes, design, photography, web design   

• Typesites by Astheria

  A website devoted to typography and websites launched recently.
  typesites was created by Kyle Meyer, a user interface designer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  To date, the “biweekly showcase” has featured and critiqued three websites. Jesús Velasco and Coudal Partners are two beautiful websites I’ve long admired and the third, Griffin & Hoxie is their latest review; a [...]

  Posted on Feb 14.08 to design, typography, web design   

• Photographers and Web Sites

  There’s a rather fascinating discussion about photographer websites going on at A Photo Editor.
  With a background working at various newspapers and magazines as designer, then art director and being married to picture editor, I think about photography and photographers a lot.
  Making the transition to web from print and enrolled in a web design certificate program, [...]

  Posted on Jan 31.08 to design, photography, web design   

• Expression Engine Experiment

  Not long ago I discovered Expression Engine and after visiting one particularly lovely site, everythingtori.com, I made a note to self: Learn EE.
  With some time off from classes and the discovery that Jambor-ee is building a website (welovefood.com) using EE in 24 days, I decided now would be an excellent opportunity to follow along.
  My installation [...]

  Posted on Dec 17.07 to software, web design   

• First Web Designs Using Dreamweaver CS3

  Sharing some of the results of my first term through PSU’s Web Design Certificate program seems long overdue and there really was only one class that produced anything remotely visual: Dreamweaver CS3 with Dave McFarland.

  All of the designs were homework assignments and honestly none were thoroughly checked for validation; however, all future designs will [...]

  Posted on Dec 14.07 to classes, software, web design   

• Web Design Classes: 10 things learned, Weeks 2 & 3

  “10 Things Learned” each week was ambitious and perhaps every 2 weeks is more realistic. There are 14 or so months to go and still feeling it out…
  _Plan. Like any other design project, planning is an essential first step. Using a pencil and paper is my preferred method first step and some like to just [...]

  Posted on Oct 14.07 to classes, web design   

• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

  Keep an eye on webtypography.net as Richard Rutter helps us to bring the lessons from Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style to practice using css and html.
  I’m not sure how long it has been since the last update and I discovered it via 31Three’s blog mention of Web Typography Sucks, a session from SXSW 2007 [...]

  Posted on Oct 08.07 to asides, typography, web design   

• More Lessons About Type on the Web

  I was hoping there would be a magical and contradictory answer to my realization that there are not many typefaces available when designing for the web and using CSS.
  The realization, if memory serves, happened while searching for themes for this wordpress-powered blog. Not only did I notice very quickly that themes used a limited list [...]

  Posted on Oct 05.07 to design, typography, web design   

• Web Design Classes: 10 Things Learned, Week 1

  This past week was the first real taste of just how much there is to learn and how the decision to stay in Portland was the right one.
  I’m going to try and post “10 Things Learned” each week. It may perhaps be too ambitious but what the heck, it’s worth a shot.
  1_Online classes are not [...]

  Posted on Sep 30.07 to classes, web design