Archive | May, 2009

Building an identity

I have been working late into the night working on my new web design venture and have come up with a smashing logo design.  It was a bit of a process, and admittedly it was a bit rushed, but sometimes things just feel right, and this was one of those times.  I knew I wanted [...]

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I need a new favicon.

It’s true.  The current one does not match the site at all. I forgot about that when I re-did the site.  I would never forget to design one for a client site but somehow, I didn’t make one for me.  Oh well. Wait, what needs to be changed?  The favicon is that little teeny tiny [...]

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Hello, Thursday!

Today is a fantastic day!  I have purchased my domain, started a trademark application as well as the application for a business name here in good ‘ol Illinois!  I have started thinking about logos, the site design and all that fun stuff too, but that has to take a back seat to getting the work [...]

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Naming a venture.

This is a dilemma faced by many entrepreneurs : you know your idea/service/product us great. In fact it is so awesome that you name it something off the wall thinking that it won’t matter or that everyone will get your quirky sense of humor. Well, let me tell you I am facing this very dilemma. [...]

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Building a website is not for a hobbyist.

At my “day job” I come across a lot of websites and have to work with code created by all sorts of people. Designers who still use GoLive (oi!), Programmers who dabble in HTML for fun (they might be worse) but the worst code to deal with is the code created by someone who took [...]

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