Indianapolis Web Design Blog

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 […]

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 favorite […]

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 […]

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 website […]

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.

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 been very […]

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 do the job […]

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

Insightful article by Jeff Croft, in which he muses “if the reason CSS’ version number has moved exactly one decimal point in almost a decade is, at least in part, that there are no designers on the W3C team.”
1. I didn’t find a single name I recognize as a top web designer or developer.
2. I […]

Today I ran across a web designer blog supporting the idea to stop using IE hacks, to just let the browser bugs creep to the visible surface of every IE 6 user out in the web.
According to the author:
Let’s admit it, we all hate Internet Explorer 6. About 80% of our CSS debug time are […]