Archive for March, 2009

Custom Design, Purchased Templates, and Ethics

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Since custom design is my #1 job, I rarely need to use ready-made templates. When I do, it’s for good reason: the client needs to save money. These designs never get claimed as my own and never make it into my portfolio. //

Web2.0, coffee house, and grunge

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Recently I had a friend (who is in charge of teaching the high-school youth of America about web design) tell me that his students really liked “grunge” and felt that Web 2.0 was going away (to be replaced by grunge) thanks in part largely to this old article over at Smashing Magazine. A whole lot [...]