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Web Wrangler Studio Club Graphics for March
The first set of graphics for my new web graphics subscription club is live and ready for members to download! This week’s graphic is a Twitter-ready background and matching avatar. The inspirational message would be appropriate for the profile of a coach, teacher, or anyone whose goal is to inspire their followers. I’ll be adding [...]
Continue reading...4. March 2011
Shop Web Wrangler Studios on Etsy for Pre-Made and Made To Order Custom Designs!
Need quality web graphics in a hurry? Check out my new Web Wrangler Studio shop on Etsy for a selection of pre-made banners, backgrounds, and even pre-made web sites and blog templates!
Continue reading...2. March 2011
How Not To Be a Client From Hell: Understanding How Web Design Works, Part 2
Previously, in Part 1 of my "How Not To Be a Client From Hell" series, I explained how the web is different from print, and how designing a web site is very different from designing, say, a poster or a magazine layout. This week I'm going to expound on that further and explain why it's a bad idea to hire a web designer do design your business cards and letterhead and why it's an especially bad idea to hire a print designer to design your web site layout.
Continue reading...15. February 2011
How Not To Be a Client From Hell: Understanding How the Web Works, Part 1
Over the weekend I spent a ridiculous amount of time reading my newest Tumblr addiction, Clients From Hell, a collection of true-life anecdotes about the sometimes bizarre, occasionally illegal, and often frustrating demands that freelance designers encounter. Some of the stories on there are so outrageous that you have to laugh to keep from crying, and a great deal of them involve clients who believe that the "free" in "freelancer" means that we work for free. But I was struck that a lot of the entries involved clients who simply don't understand how the web works. In many cases, it seemed that the problem was simply that the client needed to be educated about what's possible with web design, and to have their expectations managed accordingly. It's easy for web professionals, who are online all day, every day, either making the web or studying how to make it better, to forget that we had to learn this stuff, too. In an effort to bridge the gap between clueless clients and know-it-all designers, I'm going to address some common misconceptions that non-designers have about web design.
Continue reading...11. January 2011
Why I’m a Premium WordPress Theme Convert
I’ve been building and customizing WordPress sites for a couple of years now. I’d even go so far as to call it one of my specialties. I confess that I don’t know PHP well enough to create a WordPress site from scratch; so typically, I start with a basic free theme and alter it, changing [...]
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9. March 2011
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