Propaganda Party: The Pop Stalin Design Manifesto

04-17-08 ‹› Business

Google Checkout—Screwing Over the Little Gal

At the end of last year I had some issues with a client. It was decided we would end our client/designer “relationship.” During the project I delivered to the client 3 wireframes and 3 concept designs with revisions. After a wireframe was decided upon and…

04-09-08 ‹› Business

Updating Leopard Means Visit to Genius Bar

So I made the mistake of assuming upgrading my Mac to the newest OS, Leopard, would be as standard as any other update. Boy, was I ever wrong. Now my Mac is having a slumber party at my local Apple Store in the capable (?)…

03-12-08 ‹› Business

Revisiting Website Proposals For the New Year

A lot of people have been asking for an actual example of a web design proposal based on the post I wrote a while back entitled, “Writing a Web Design Proposal.” So today, I’ll be posting a PDF of my web design proposal. I hope…

01-12-08 ‹› Business

Say It Ain’t So, Joe… I’ve Been Thieved Too

Oh my… I don’t know what to say… At least Lorissa’s thief had the good sense to pretty much leave her design intact.

I suppose I’ll be going through the same process Lorissa did to have the content taken down. The dipshit is linking directly to…

11-09-07 ‹› Business

Getting Automated with Apple Automator

Recently I’ve been taking advantage of using Colour Lover’s download palette option for Adobe Photoshop. Using Automator, I’ve decided to make this task as simple as possible. Basically what happens is once the file is downloaded into a specific folder, the folder action, which is always running, then moves that file to the ‘Color Swatches’ folder.

08-02-07 ‹› Business

What Happens When Things Get Slow

AKA, How Not to Lose Your Mind!

As I’ve discovered recently things sometimes slow down in the freelance world (of course I knew that before it happened but that sentence made a good segue). In my situation, I almost, almost, had to start hocking stuff to…

08-01-07 ‹› Projects

WallFly Marketing Website Design

My latest completed project is for WallFly Marketing, a new marketing firm. I was responsible for the front-end design, coding and Wordpress implementation as well as the logo.

07-23-07 ‹› Projects

NASO Website Design

My latest completed project is for NASO, a sales outsourcing company. I was responsible for the front-end design, coding and Wordpress implementation. The site is aimed to appeal to businesses and the site needed to be easily updated using Wordpress as a CMS.

I was contracted…

04-30-07 ‹› Projects

The Maxx Club Website

My latest completed project is for The Maxx Club, a youth club in Connecticut. I was responsible for the front-end design, coding and Wordpress implementation. The Maxx Club folks wanted something that appealed to their youth market and a site that was easily updated so…

04-06-07 ‹› Projects

Jenny Yuen Front-End and Flash Photo Presentation Design

A site that I had the pleasure of working on about a month ago has finally launched for noted handbag designer, Jenny Yuen. She wanted a simple site that showcased her collection of handbags so I set about designing such a site before handing off…

03-16-07 ‹› Business

Giving Good Service: Managing a Project

As freelance designers one of the many hats we wear is that of being a project manager. Not only do we concern ourselves with being creative but we must have some way of organizing a project that is seamless.

03-09-07 ‹› Business

Increase Productivity: Create a Client Questionnaire

As a freelance designer you’re more than just a designer—you’re a business owner, an account, a project manager and a sales person—just to name a few of the hats we wear. So it’s really important to make sure you’re working as efficiently as possible. If not you could be wasting the clients’ time and giving yours away for free.

03-08-07 ‹› Business

Keeping Track of Work

It’s becoming obvious I need some sort of easy-to-use planner of some sort. I’m starting to get overwhelmed with things to do and I’m afraid things will start slipping through the cracks. I’ve tried using GTD with Mail.app but it just doesn’t seem natural. I’m…

03-05-07 ‹› Business

Discovering New Design Blogs: GraphicDefine and BoDo

Running your own business can be difficult and scary. Though there are plenty of design blogs out there, mine included, I don’t often come across many that deal specifically with running a design-oriented business. That all changed today when I came across two new blogs…

02-23-07 ‹› Projects

Custom Myspace Profile Design: DVDPlay

While the rest of the world was wrapped up in the Anna Nicole corpse debacle (okay, I’ll admit it, I had the trial on in the background), I’ve been working on and just completed a custom Myspace profile for the company DVDPlay—they offer DVD rentals…