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8 Reasons Why Bad Web Design Decisions Get Made

June 25, 2011July 31, 2016 Christian Watson 24 Comments

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

New “Deal of the Day” Email Template

January 20, 2011September 21, 2020 Christian Watson 5 Comments

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.

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Recover Data from a Damaged Hard Drive Using a Live CD

May 16, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

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.

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$150 Discount on “Voices That Matter” Web Design Conference

April 20, 2010August 9, 2016 Christian Watson

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.

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New Website Launched: Bike and the Like

April 8, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

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.

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SmileyCat Website 2009 Uptime Report

January 1, 2010August 9, 2016 Christian Watson

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!

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Prize Draw: Win 500 Free Business Cards

November 17, 2009August 10, 2016 Christian Watson

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).

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Mytheon Website Launch

November 2, 2009August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

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

April 19, 2009August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

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

April 12, 2009September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

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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