20 Best New Portfolios, September 2018
Hello Readers. It’s September, so as soon as your kids are off to school, maybe you can finally have a…
5 Ways to Cleanse Your Design Palate
Much is made of the need for inspiration in design work. While most of a designer’s job is sweating the…
The Real Problem With Pre-Made Themes
Designers, developers, site owners… lend me your eyeballs for a bit. There’s something rotten in the state of pre-made website…
5 Ways to Deal With Projects for Friends & Family
It always starts as an innocent conversation. Whether it’s an email, an SMS conversation, or face-to-face, it starts simply enough:…
20 Best New Portfolios, August 2018
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Our Secret Reptilian Overlords, I asked for more color in last month’s article, and you have delivered….
5 Ways to Keep Designing When the Power is Out
There’s a certain peace to be found at night, when the world goes dark and silent. You might settle down…
Firefox Working on a Rebrand
Hey guys, remember Firefox? Remember the Mozilla Application Suite? That second one isn’t relevant, but everyone knows that nostalgia is…
5 Ways to Lower Your Site’s Barrier to Entry
The internet, like most activities on the planet, has a barrier to entry. You need at least one brain—conscious and…
Brainstorming the Wiki
Before the blog took off, before Tumblr became the face of fandom, but around a year after Geocities launched as…
20 Best New Portfolios, July 2018
Hello again, Readers. It’s time to stop playing those games you got on the Steam Summer Sale for a minute,…
8 Steps to Using Live Streaming as Part of Your Content Strategy
Exposure. Engagement. Interaction. Trolls calling you horrible things in real time. You can have all of these buzzwords and more…
GoDaddy Changes its Logo (Again), Loses its Daddy
Once upon a time in the long lost world of the 1997 (more or less), a little boy was growing…