Archive for the 'Design' Category

Redesign of indyvineyard.org

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to turn out projects that we [...]

Just Stop It Already

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Just stop putting leaves in your logo already. Need I say more? //

Xinha Conversion to “What You See is What You Mean” Editing

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Awhile back I wrote about the problem of allowing website managers to write valid content for their content managed websites. I mentioned a wonderful editor called WYMeditor, which is great simple because it shows you the markup while you edit your document. Being no programmer, I am personally unable to shoehorn this editor into my [...]

The New Fab Crew Website

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

OK, It’s been a few weeks, but If you haven’t, head over and check out Indy’s own FAB Crew, the gentlemen behind some of the city’s more masterful urban artwork. I know Ben and Dan are great designers as well, and they have come up with a simple, cool and creative design for the FAB [...]

A Little Dose of Web Design Perspective

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Yesterday I took a tour of the local auto industry – driving around town getting estimates for a paint job. Stepping out of my clean and organized world of validating XHTML, CSS, and good design, I entered a world where it just didn’t matter. Before stopping by several shops, I went online and hit every [...]

IMA hires out of town talent for crazy Drupal site

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

A writeup appeared today on Drupal’s website reporting that the Indianapolis Museum or Art’s new website was built using mostly unmodified Drupal 5, development by “Palantir” of Evanston, IL and “Studio Blue” of Chicago, IL. The website is chock-full of “Web 2.0″ goodness – if you can find your way around it. //

Portfolio update and freelance work news

Monday, October 29th, 2007

N-vent related news: Tonight I finally got around to updating my design portfolio, adding 5 new web designs. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work this summer and fall, and therefore have hardly had time for my own site updates due to the workload. My freelance brethren out there can attest to this. I’ve [...]

My Dream Content Management System, or The Way A CMS Should Be

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Only once in a great while does a piece of software come along that does it’s job very well. Today I am going to write about a content management system that I use daily. This is my “Is it good?” software test: Does it do the job, as opposed to just not working? Does it [...]

Browser Wars: Word from the Front

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Interesting data from W3C Schools and and commentary from Douglas Karr over at the Marketing Technology Blog. Check it out, its worth a read. //

Worst Logo Ever?

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

There is nothing like a splash of humor to start off one’s day… but this is real, so I’m not sure it qualifies. Just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes some real gem of design utopia, a pinnacle of thought and creativity that inspires me to stay in business in hopes of achieving [...]