How To: Create a Web 2.0 Background

Gradients, reflections, easy to read font, and simplicity. Keep these four things in mind when creating your website and you are sure to manage a site that gives you users a little eye candy while holding on to simplicity and usability. Most designers have trouble making the compromise between usability and making artwork. The web 2.0 trend focuses on usability while still giving the user something to look at. [Read more →]

700+ Designer Links, And 10 You Might Care About

I’m so tired of people throwing up these 100+ Designer Links Every Designer Should know. Because I get about 7 links into the page and I start hitting sites that don’t even exist anymore or are outdated and worthless. But I promised you 700+ links so here you go: [Read more →]

So you think you can Design?

It’s been 6 months. I have been designing this site for release for just over 6 months now and I know how to design a site. This is my 3rd draft for my site, my first two were created but never released publicly (view them in my portfolio).

I learned a lot over the past 6 months, especially since I consider myself a graphic designer and a web developer and that is finding where to draw the line. [Read more →]