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Design Inspiration: Jay Fleck
Illustrator, Jay Fleck, creates wonderfully whimsical artwork, seemingly inspired by the larger-than-life ideals of childhood. Giant octopus, rocket ships, giraffes riding sharks, macaroni art… all presented in such beautiful fashion, I can’t help but smile and reminisce about my own [...]
The State of US E-Commerce
The state of US e-commerce: California has the highest traffic, but Wyoming converts the most. Online testing and targeting company Monetate today released its latest quarterly report on the state of e-commerce in the United States, dubbed EQ3 2012. For the report, [...]
Digging into WordPress, the Book
UPDATE: The latest version has been released, and covers WordPress 3.3 Digging into WordPress is both a tutorial blog and recently released book, both by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr. I’ve been the occasional fan of the site, and decided [...]
Say Goodbye To Times & Arial
Tired of Arial and Times New Roman? Yeah, we were too. There are a couple super simple solutions that we use on our projects that allow the use of a wider range of fonts, without the viewer having to install [...]
Shopify No More
In light of the growing number of rip off reports and tales of peeved Shopify customers blazing across the internet, we’ve decided to cut all ties with Shopify, effective immediately. We started offering customized Shopify online stores as an alternative [...]
9 Unique Web Design Galleries
There are quite a few inspirational galleries and award websites out there today. We even have our own, The Design Gene. Most all of them are collections of what the moderator feels are worthy of listing in his/her gallery based [...]
Lorem ipsum….
In most of my projects, and likely other designers’ projects as well, the design concept is completed before any verbiage is provided by client, or written by me. In order to provide a visually complete design concept, placeholder text is [...]
Fix for HolasionWeb WordPress GoDaddy Virus
If you have a WordPress app version 2.9.2 hosted by GoDaddy, and have been experiencing issues lately, there’s a good chance you have the HolasionWeb Virus. To check, log into the WordPress admin. The first thing you might notice is [...]
Smashing Book Now Available
The highly anticipated Smashing Book, by the folks over at Smashing Magazine, is now available. The book covers the best practices in modern web design, including technical tips, coding, usability and optimization. As any designer knows, Smashing Magazine is one [...]
Benefits of Smaller Design Firms
I had originally wrote this segment a long time ago, and intended it for our “about” section. I don’t know, but it seems more like a seminar speal than a friendly note about us, so I left it out. But, [...]
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