One of my absolute favorite design books is, Robin Williams Design Workshop. It looks into practical design theories and showcases awesome examples. One of the areas of focus that I’ve taken into all my designs are the four major design principles. They include: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.

My RSS feed reader is stocked with 100′s of feeds from the design community. The articles that fill my reader, inspire me, teach me, and keep me up to date with the latest in the design community. It has become instrumental to helping me grow and keep up to date with this quickly changing field.

I know from personal experience that when I begin a web project it’s so easy to choose a Content Management System (CMS) that I’m already familiar with. Even more so, it’s easy for me to reach for the popular choice that’s already well established. Recently, I’ve had a chance to give SilverStripe a test drive.

The issue of how to handle a web maintenance contract has always puzzled me. I’m constantly rethinking how I should do things. Throughout my many efforts, I’ve tried to set up hourly and per project contracts. So which is better?

Working in a creative field, such as design, can be taxing on the imagination. But there are some ways that have proven effective to folks who have faced these times, and come through them with success. And they all involve taking a mental five.

With the web every day becoming more and more robust and websites becoming more advanced users and designers can benefit from these changes, I can feel that it wont be long until every one will initially start to ignore IE6 and start enjoying what more advanced browsers can handle.

So I was thinking today (which admittedly tends to not go over well), and I struck upon an idea that seemed ludicrous at first, but as I digested it, it seemed to make more sense. In every field there is a set of standards that folks follow which grant a certain uniformity to the group as a whole.

Choosing what career path you wish to take is one of the biggest decisions you will ever make in your life. And people take a lot of things into consideration when choosing their job, but did you ever stop and think about what the community around your job choice might be like, and how that could effect your choice.

The process of developing a website can be long and tedious, but the end result should be rewarding. Throwing something together too quickly without much of a plan leads to a lot of redesigns and mistakes. I’ve narrowed down my design process into five basic categories. Here are my 5 steps.

I went to write a quick post today about Using Zoho Services, but when I went to place an image using the media buttons in Wordpress, they were gone. The first thing I try whenever I’m having this sort of problem is perform a quick Google search to see if anyone else has suffered the same fate.

MyInkBlog was down again today for about 2 or 3 hours. That’s not all that bad in the big scheme of things, but it’s happened at least 5 times in the last two months. I don’t want to go out of my way to bash my hosting company, but I can’t help but be annoyed.

More often than not your web host will offer free statistics in their hosting control panel, but sometimes they don’t and many times if they do, it is limited. In this article I am going to show you how to setup Google Analytics to begin tracking your visitors. It’s pretty straight forward and well worth the little bit of effort.