I’m Getting Closer!

May 21, 2008

Live from six flags over Georgia

For most people, purchasing a template for your site saves money through reducing programming and graphic arts costs.

For a developer, it may save money if you don’t do the artwork yourself, as you save yourself from having to pay an artist, but it ends up costly in terms of changing an already-designed theme around.

When I started out with this redesign project, I wanted to try a lot of new things—purchasing my first theme (instead of custom-designing) was one of them. The thing about purchasing a theme is that it has pros and cons. As I said before, one of the pros is reducing costs through skipping a graphic designer and/or decreasing your development time. One of the cons is that I am a perfectionist and I’m using someone else’s work.

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Today’s Inspiration: Sketchnotes from Mike Rohde

November 7, 2007

I found these sketchnotes on Flickr while wandering around the web tonight. (You can also see a discussion and a slideshow of the information at Mike Rohde’s blog.) The images of the sketches are remarkable in several ways:

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Amazon.com Redid Their Site

November 6, 2007

I owe a lot to Amazon.com; back in the mid-90s, when I had just entered college in the middle of nowhere, Amazon fueled my entrepreneurial spirit by providing me with all the content I needed to learn my craft. (These were the days before the entire documentation for languages like PHP and CSS could be found online.) In fact, I bought so many books that Amazon sent me Christmas gifts each year with a letter from Jeff Bezos himself.

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