Sometimes when I’m struggling to complete a task on a website (or am watching my wife throw her arms up in frustration), I ask myself “What genius decided to build it like that?” Read More
Real Life
New “Deal of the Day” Email Template
I’ve been working with Florida Flourish on a couple of projects and here’s the outcome of the first one — a new template for our weekly deals email.
Read MoreRecover Data from a Damaged Hard Drive Using a Live CD
Last week my hard drive started looking like it might be on its last legs. The built-in diagnostic tool that comes with my HP computer was returning a “BIOHD-8” error, which suggested that my hard drive was not feeling too healthy.
Read More$150 Discount on “Voices That Matter” Web Design Conference
If you’re in the San Francisco area at the end of June you may want to check this out. New Riders’ Voices That Matter web design conference takes place June 28-29.
New Website Launched: Bike and the Like
I don’t do much freelance work any more. Mainly because work + family + gaming habit + blog doesn’t leave time for too much else. However, I do have a couple of clients and I recently redesigned the website for one of them — Bike and the Like.
Read MoreSmileyCat Website 2009 Uptime Report
I just got my 2009 yearly uptime report for this website. It was offline for a total of 6 minutes and 3 seconds, which is better than 99.99% uptime!
Prize Draw: Win 500 Free Business Cards
The kind folks at Overnight Prints — purveyors of fine printed products such as business cards, postcards, greetings card and flyers — are offering one lucky reader of my blog 500 free business cards (free shipping included too).
Mytheon Website Launch
If it’s been a little quiet around here lately, it’s because I’ve been busy with, among other things, launching a new website for Mytheon, the next game from True Games Interactive. Read More
New Year; New Job
In my previous post about the NCsoft West site redesign I mentioned that was my last project with NCsoft. That’s because I’ve moved on to take on the role of running the web team for another MMO publisher, True Games Interactive. Read More
Reflections on a Web Site Redesign
When I joined NCsoft a little over a year ago, one of the core things I wanted to improve was the main US web site. Well, it took somewhat longer than I had planned, but recently the redesigned site went live.
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