Author Archives: admin

Godaddy hosting and contact forms

A weird thing I learned while trying to get a contact form to work on a WordPress installation hosted with godaddy is that you have to have the from email be a real email hosted on the server. Once I … Continue reading

Productivity method

For awhile I was experimenting with the Pomodoro Technique to increase my focus and productivity. However I’ve found that taking those small breaks usually interrupted my flow. Now I’m experimenting with the process of using Spotify or some other music … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

Being a designer is a lot of things but one of the most important is being responsible. You are responsible for the project you sign on to and the success or failure of it rests on your shoulders once you … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

This weeks post is a little late and more about some of the tools that I’ve been using to help make my life a bit easier and more streamlined. Wunderlist This is a wonderful app that has a web interface … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

Many people have spoken out about Flash and Adobe basically putting the nail in the coffin. As someone that has used Flash for a long time I don’t think I have anything too important to add to that. I’ve barely … Continue reading

Track Yourself

A neat experiment to do is to try and think of all the websites you belong to and how many of them you use. I built a spreadsheet that listed all the sites I’ve ever joined (that I could recall) … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

Container Divs For the past couple of weekends I’ve been attending Josh Sager’s excellent WordPress workshop. This workshop has been packed full of so many interesting little tidbits that I come out of there excited to get to work. That’s … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

Client Testing Sites At a class on WordPress theme development this weekend we were talking about the process of showing the client your work. Josh Sager mentioned how he likes to test and develop as soon as possible on the … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

Rework by Jason Fried Having just returned from a bit of well deserved rest I don’t really have too much to talk about. However I finally managed to pick up this excellent book that was making waves a few months … Continue reading

Weekly Design Notes

PowerPoint Design/Formatting This past week has been a crash course in PowerPoint work. I’ve used PowerPoint in the past but I’ve never had so many presentations or “decks” as they are called here to format all at the same time. … Continue reading