Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The official Wordpress blog posted up a nice sneak peek into the Wordpress 2.5 release, and intriguingly enough, most of it seems to be an interface update thanks to the fine folks from Happy Cog. Excitedly, I grabbed the release candidate and installed it on my laptop to play with. While the experience was primarily positive, there were some things that irked me. This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means, but the ones that I felt most passionate about are here.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In response to a few comments on ‘My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too’ I’ve done some more digging and have come up with a short list of portfolios that I feel cover the right bases. They may not be completely perfect, but if you’re looking for an example of the right direction, hopefully you’ll find it here.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Last evening I was browsing a few portfolios after having a discussion with a friend who was redoing his own. I have to say it was a frustrating experience just looking through a few. In fact it was so frustrating, this post came as a result. After browsing 200 portfolios and keeping track of certain criteria I know I never want a job in human resources.
At any rate, I hope this will be useful to those of you looking to create or reevaluate your portfolio. Yes I’m an opinionated bloke, but I think you’ll see my reasoning as relatively common sense items that people just overlook.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Text alignment is always a tricky issue, especially on the web where we are at the mercy of text rendering, sizing, and window space all at the discretion of the viewer. However, all forms of alignment have their place on the web. But before we get to the decision making process, let’s have a closer look at our options.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Design is broken up into a number of basic principles that apply to all design from type creation to painting to page layout, both on the web and in print. However, especially on the web, these rules tend to be forgotten and we just go with what feels “right.” This isn’t because designers are feeling too loose to abandon these rules, but rather, most people working on the web don’t even know they exist – if they do, they don’t understand how to use them.
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