One of the best things you can do when planning a site is to get the client involved. Forcing them to confront, and iterate, their expectations can save you time (and money) down the road. The best way to do that is to listen to them. The following is designed not to be a hard-and-fast checklist, but a tool to stimulate thought, and, from that, to stimulate conversation.
You can either give it to the client to fill out in advance of a meeting or simply use it as a guide while you talk to them. It is best for small- to medium-sized projects.
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Thanks to @Gautch on Twitter for sharing this!
Using the WPTouch plugin for Wordpress by Brave New Code.com, I was able to quickly and easily set up orkron.com to be formatted to the iPhone and iPod Touch! This plugin is great because it doesn’t require an .htaccess redirect for mobile phones – which doesn’t work properly in all browsers – and I wanted my blog to be easier to read on my iPod Touch (and others’).
If you have a wordpress blog, I highly recommend this plugin!
I, like some of you, recently upgraded to the Adobe CS4 family. The new interface is very nice; I especially like the tabbing between open windows function.
There are some frustrating differences between CS3 (and older) and the new CS4 version.
I wanted to go over the two differences that caused me the most headaches; I’m hoping this article will help some of you get past a couple obstacles that are not so obvious to figure out otherwise.
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Last year (around July), I was given the extremely awesome opportunity to create a US Bank University of Oregon Visa Debit Affiliation card.
I made three designs:
- Of Deady Hall (boring, oldest building on campus bla bla bla, only to satisfy the old [rich] alumns).
- of Autzen Stadium using a really nice photograph taken by somebody else some other time for some other reason, and
- a 100% newly created, young, clean, look which included 3d elements and graphical elements.
You can tell my favorite lol.
Anyhoo, after a round of double-blind, very scientific (not really…) testing and opinion-gathering and “which one do you like better?”
It was clear that (my fav) #3 was the clear winner!
Now, 6 months later, it is finally available to anyone who has a US Bank checking account. Read more about the card on US Bank’s site and sign up for it if you like! (I don’t make any money from it, aside from what I was paid to design it – it is just cool to have more people using my design out there!)
