October, 2008

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Writing for the Web - “Content is King”

Keep your text simple and written in plain language. Unless your audience requires technical or legalese, stay clear of “spelling bee” words…

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Brochure Design Tips and design tips and tricks

The temptation to fill up the empty space may win out over good graphic design practices. It may not seem obvious, though it can be tempting to add extraneous messages in your advertisement…

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Offering New York Web Design at affordable prices!

Good business sense — and a common sense approach— shape the way I think and the graphic designs I create. With over 28 years of experience as a graphic design…

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

Opaque text on transparent background

This tip was based on Mandarin’s Opacity Background: Fully Opaque Text. An example is shown on my homepage HERE. This CSS Trick example consists of essentially…

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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Manual upgrade, SVN or CVS for WordPress?

For the past 8 years I’ve taken advantage of the many powerful features of CVS (Concurrent Versions Systems) to upgrade my Web apps and FreeBSD ports…

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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

WordPress Admin Plugins and Customizations

As often happens, I forget what I was searching for when I stumbled upon a great resource for WordPress developers, WordPress designers and aficionados. In my case…

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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Advanced (or just cool) Web Apps for WordPress

WordPress Gadgets, widgets and snippets and how you can make the power of blogging work for you…

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Friday, October 17th, 2008

Logo ideas gives WinSCP a brand

Free FTP client for Windows needs a corporate identity and help is on the way! WinSCP is an open source secure FTP client that offers many features making it a powerful tool for Web designers like me…

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

A before and after: Ulster County Workforce brochure redesign

Recently redesigned tri-fold brochure for Ulster County government agency in Hudson Valley, New York. A before and after comparison…

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