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Future Of Web Design NYC Recap.
From November 7th through the 9th I spent my time in New York City attending the Future of Web Design conference at the New World Stages. While attending I was fortunate enough to listen to several presentations given by quite the lineup including a few names such as Brandon Mathis, Nick Petit, and Cameron Moll just to name a few. Presentation Highlights Brandon Mathis – Sass & Compass: The Future Of Stylesheets Now Brandon Mathis is a devoted enthusiast of using Sass and Compass to increase the capabilities and ease [...]
5 High Quality Free Portfolio WordPress Themes
With WordPress development being such a large community of people there is a flood of free themes available to everyone to use and download. It can be hard to weed out the bad from the good so I have compiled a list of five high quality WordPress that are 100% free to use for your own portfolio. Thalliumity A theme from Padd Solutions this is a high detailed business orientated portfolio theme. A very clean and slick overall look this is an easy theme to incorporate for your small [...]
Extending Adobe Illustrator With Scripts
Illustrator is Adobe’s professional vector graphics application. Being a personal favorite of mine to create digital art there are a lot of ways you can enhance the program using these extensions known as scripts. Illustrator supports scripts from AppleScript, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and ExtendScript. These scripts can be used to achieve a plethora of desired effects. One of the more difficult looks to accomplish within illustrator or any vector graphics programs for that matter is an overall organic feel to an element. Using scripts you can easily accomplish this among [...]
BuckeyeInteractive.com Redesign
Since I started working officially full time here at Buckeye Interactive in late June one of the first projects I was given was to redesign our homepage at BuckeyeInteractive.com. While trying to juggle this redesign with that vast list of client projects in the lineup we are finally nearing completion! This new website will include a much fresher look with some very incredible dynamic features brought to life with the help of Rian our combat developer. Some of the new features we are incorporating will include an updated portfolio section, [...]
Inspirational Web Design Sources
With the web being an ever changing world new web design trends are constantly rising and falling. It is a constant effort on my part to keep up with or even try to get ahead of the curve in the online design world. There is a wealth of gallery type websites featuring different works by artists displaying excellent examples I use for my personal inspiration. I have hand picked a few of my favorites that I check on a daily basis: AWWWARDS Daily updated feed of the best of the best [...]