**UPDATE – June 19th – I have closed comments on this post now as I feel that all sides of the argument have been voiced, and it seems the right time to close the discussion on this particular post. I look forward to the continuing debate on other sites/blogs from all of you. Thank you [...]
....continue readingBack in October, I asked you guys for some answers and thoughts on the topic of "What Clients Need To Know When Hiring A Web Design Company ". You can read the comments made here The article in the business magazine (Gulf Shore Business) has now been published and you can read it here Only [...]
....continue readingIt is always nice to see subscriber stats going up. Today, I realized that the email I send to a first time commenter on my site displays my old RSS feed link asking them to subscribe. So, I just checked out my google webmaster tools account, and it looks like I have a large number [...]
....continue readingJust like most things in web design and user interface design, personal preference is the cause of many arguments. Rather than discuss this as an argument, I would like to see statistics on opinions from fellow designers, internet users, general garden gnomes etc. Please select below, whether you prefer to create/visit/browse center aligned websites, or [...]
....continue readingArtists place their signature in the bottom corner of a masterpiece and journalists add a copyright to their articles. Logo designers, however, are not so quickly recognized for their work. Some logo designs , especially those that were created prior to the internet age, do not have an official designer attached to them, and for [...]
....continue readingAs with any logo designer, it is a lot of fun to see your very own creation applied in many different ways, whether it is on tv, or a popular website. One of my favorites is to see a logo I designed presented large scale on the side of a building. for the general public [...]
....continue reading**update – submitted this article to Just Creative Design’s Group Writing Project for charity along with a monetary donation over at Just Creative Design’s fund raising page ** Static design visuals: all web designers use them as a way to present the designs to a client. I personally upload a jpg of the visual to [...]
....continue readingSome designers make a great career out of freelancing, some struggle to ever pay the bills solely from freelancing income. If you are already a successful freelancer, you will probably see that you are not guilty of most of the points made below. If you are hoping to be a full-time freelancer, or are currently [...]
....continue readingThere are a a few ways that you can achieve this in Photoshop, but this tutorial will simply go through my personal process of how to create a post-it note pretty quickly. I tried not to use too many shortcut keys when doing this just so those with less Photoshop experience could follow what was [...]
....continue readingI was recently hired to re-design Hawaii Real Estate’s most popular website, Adrhi.com. While the old website did it’s job in the past, it was extremely out-dated in both design and usability. Under the hood, the html was a table based layout with inline styles that needed to go. So, Brian Joseph Studios got to [...]
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