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Advantages to running WordPress

Whenever someone asks me what I’d suggest to them for a Content Management System (CMS) or blogging platform, the answer is almost always WordPress. I power this site with WordPress, as well as probably 75% of my design clients sites. WordPress has many distinct advantages over other alternatives, and as an overall platform I find …

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My Hardware & Software

It seems it is quite common and often asked of each designer what hardware, software, and apps they use regularly, and why they chose the route that they took. My Main computer (Desktop in my office) is a Custom Built PC, built by myself. This computer runs Windows 7 and can handle just about anything …

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ZooTool as a Chrome App

Absolutely love that ZooTool is now a Google Chrome App. I’ve always wanted to use ZooTool, but without owning a Mac I never had the chance. I’ve started using it to build moodboard-type pages for clients designs. …

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Pardon our Dust

If you haven’t noticed yet we’re making some evolutionary changes to the site. We feel its getting just a bit dated and wanted to make sure its easy to use, fast, and represents everything we do as a Design Company. Hopefully we’ll be finished here soon, but if you notice anything a bit whacky that …

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My Thoughts on Typekit

As long as I’ve been designing, one of the biggest gripes Web Designers have (other than Internet Explorer) is the limited stack of web-safe fonts. What we mean by web-safe fonts are fonts that are installed on a very high percentage of visitors Operating System. Web-safe fonts (Georgia, Arial, Verdana) work well, and are nice …

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Android Applications for Web Designers

If you’re like me and one of the select few web designers and/or developers who doesn’t carry around an iPhone all day long I’d first off like to welcome you to our exclusive club. Secondly I’d like to point you to the Motorola Droid or other Android Phones (preferably the 2.0 android phones coming out …

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