Or so it would seem given the placidity of the blog in recent days. The reasons primarily being that I’ve been in the thick of the final stages of the installation of an elaborate FileMaker setup for a client.
The setup involves 22 clients and one FileMaker server. The server is a […]
For those not in the know, the folks over at FireWheel design and IconBuffet.com are giving away royalty-free artwork and icons (for both commercial and personal use). Simply, this is a brilliant idea at creating a network of users hawking in the trading of their lovely free creations. All you need to do […]
Each Friday, Illustration Friday presents a topic and invites bloggers to contribute an illustration suggested by the topic. This week’s topic is: “Blue”
Yeah, that’s what the folks are saying over at Creativebits, and with good reason. I find Apple’s own FontBook to be great, just horribly sluggish especially when dealing with a large number of fonts as most designers have. But LinoType’s FontExplorer seems to be changing everything. This is laden with several features, […]
As if you didn’t know! Now go get it… I’ve been using the newer 1.5 version and it certainly is more responsive and has the nice candy of being able to re-order tabs.
The seemingly grassroots but very professional web conference entitled cre824 recently had a 24 hour design competition to produce a website. The results are intriguing. I’ll leave it to you to find out more about the conference. But here’s what us non-attendees do know:
The best web designers in the nation will be […]
37Signals and their blog Signal vs. Noise is certainly one of the more interesting blogs around. Fueled by their very buzzed about products (you KNOW what they are right?), the blog receives a fair amount of exposure and feedback thus making it a vibrant and worthwhile discussion forum.
Frankly, I’m inspired by their success. […]
I recently discovered a small problem with some of the Theme Switcher code and the Recent Comments plugin that was part of the Elvgren theme on this site (all you Elvgren users don’t have to worry about this), but I’ve turned off the cookie that stores your theme preference, so the site may suddenly display […]
The FileMaker paradigm of designing a database system has missed the wonderful tool of parameters for such a long time, that I still find myself having to rethink a lot of solutions where I was previously hardwired to have multiple but similar scripts, instead of one script that could handle practically any paramter I throw […]
For those who have not been viewing the site through their favorite newsreader, have noticed the tweaks and changes to the blog design which have been the result of several things:
Most importantly, some of the new designs I’m experimenting with for both Taft and Elvgren
The evolution of Michael’s K2 project
My most recent discovery, through the […]
