Design Tools

I had an “ah-ha!” moment over the past couple days. CSS is awesome! Perhaps it’s the fact that I’ve been so focused on the aesthetic design of websites for so long, and not how they’re engineered that I took CSS for granted? (I have always been able to surround myself with excellent programmers who’ve...
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The other day I had a co-worker looking at my LinkedIn profile, and said “Wow, you have so many Recommendations”, and after explaining how they came to be there, I thought of blogging about it. Early last year I had a friend who had just laid off send me a request to write him...
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If you haven’t run across this link as yet, you might find it to be of assistance in the future. It’s a site that hosts nearly 5,000 corporate logos and brand marks in vector format. While I don’t know the legality of this site (thus, it could be taken down any day), it is...
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It’s true, I’ve got a foot in the Apple world and the PC world. Because I’ve worked as an in-house graphic designer for tech companies over the past 6+ years, I’ve spent most of time using a PC to do graphic design work. I’ve found that companies who have a small design staff require...
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It’s funny, I remember that Janet Meiners (the blogger who got me started doing this blog) said that one of the reasons she started blogging, is that she didn’t have that great of a memory. She said that she blogs to remember ideas she’s come across or had herself to save for reference later....
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100% Cotton Originally uploaded by chezrump. Did you ever play with Adobe Photoshop to create a third eye in the middle of someone’s head? Yup, that clone tool can be a lot of fun to the first-time user. But it’s amazing to see the handiwork of someone who has really harnessed the photo-editing power...
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So I did a couple searches yesterday looking for the technique for putting Google Analytics on my blog. Since I’ve already put their code on the main pages of my portfolio site, I wanted to add it to the blog as well. I found a quick little bullet-point that revealed how it’s done on...
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So I’ve been watching my traffic the past couple weeks through my newly installed Google Analytics. I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting a lot of referrals from the Design Directory at Dexigner.com, so I thought I’d check out the site. Their listings have a small picture of your webpage – here’s mine, and contains...
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Are you being paid what you’re worth? This designer salaries link, sponsored by AIGA (the organization for designers I recently became a part of) and Aquent (a marketing and creative services group) has a link to give you an idea of what your worth. Check it out –>AIGA/AQUENT Survey of Design Salaries 2006
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Have you ever heard of Flont? If you’ve bought type from Veer you have. Most of the font companies these days have a nifty tool that allows you to see the type you want in the font they’re selling, but Flont from Veer takes it one step further. In order to use the tool,...
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