design & stuff
As a web designer it’s extremely important that I stay on top of the latest news and trends in the world of design. Twitter has been a huge help with this. Before Twitter, I would scan a handful of design blogs to see if there was anything new and interesting. I have Google Reader set [...]
Hey there Twitter stranger. I see that you are following me now. I wonder what exactly I said to make you follow me? Let’s look at your profile. Wow, you have 30,000 followers. You must be some kind of local celebrity eh? I’m feeling pretty cool now. Wait… you are following 30,000 people too? Am [...]
I’m still trying to figure this whole Twitter thing out. Is tweeting really worth the condescending looks I get from my wife? Am I going to get fed up with all the porn and marketing spam? Does anyone actually read my random and always pointless thoughts? I started tweeting in March of 2008, well before [...]
At work I am part of a group that is focused on attracting a younger and casual news audience through careful page design and changing the way we present content. There has been a lot of talk on how young people and the casual news reader consume the news. I am certainly a casual news [...]
For some reason, I am obsessed with getting my name as the number one Google result. I’m a web designer and my site isn’t on the top of the list when you search for Les James. This is especially troubling since I own the actual url. So I looked to see what the other results [...]
Well I have taken my Twitter status off of the site. It was causing huge performance issues and it was really hampering my design time. I am also revising the site’s forms. I need to come up with a new way to show/hide the form label which will require me to create new label images [...]