I owned my own web development business for five years. During that time I learned quite a bit about how to develop new business. Since then I’ve been working at a larger, more successful company and I’ve been refining my business development knowledge from there. I remember when I was starting out wondering how other [...]
I was talking with Diggles yesterday and we were looking at sites we like. We both agreed that the new Pownce site is beautiful: Great use of colors, I love the way photos break outside of their containing box, and good use of stock imagery to save on cost while nodding to the community. Diggles [...]
Are you an Internet strategist? SEOer? Do you do SEM? SMO? Do you make websites? Do you know Web 2.0? Are you a web designer? Web developer?
What exactly do you do?
I hear these questions all the time. It’s a challenge these days to describe the work I do, which is not because I’m unclear, rather [...]
I’ve recently been writing a few posts about the evolution of web design, particularly the impact of rich media, namely Flash, on modern web design. Other web design thinkers, such as Jeff Croft, have also been thinking about the new era of web design and the problems we need to address.
I started this blog in September of 2006 in the fashion I recommend to my clients, which is to grow a blog, not build one. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted it to look and how to structure the content, but I also wanted to wait and see what content I [...]
I recently wrote about the new video era. The basic idea was that because of limited bandwidth and lack of technological answers, Internet video has not been a threat to the stranglehold of broadcast TV. Users still want HD quality video and full digital surround sound when they are watching Grey’s Anatomy. Comcast is one [...]
I just had a really good conversation with some of my fellow designers and developers at NEMO Design about designing for the web. Our conversation began from Josh’s frustration with the positioning power of CSS, which evolved the discussion into one about tables vs. CSS vs. Flash. At first we all fell into the traditional [...]
So, the other day I was having trouble eliminating gaps between an image and the top of an unordered list. I was trying to make a box with rounded corners to look like a giftcard. No matter what I tried, there was a 2 pixel space between the top and bottom graphics and the list. [...]
So you think you’ve got what it takes to play with the big boys, eh? But, you’re not sure how to make it big? Well, this post is for you. Just follow these simple steps and it will be you telling people you can’t take projects until sometime late next year.
Learn from the masters
It seems [...]
Over my years of providing professional web design services, I’ve learned a few lessons. The biggest lesson I learned is that design is a process, not just pretty graphics. What I used to consider design, I now refer to as the stylization phase in a longer design process. You see, design is more than just [...]
Metafluence is my blog that focuses on graphic and web design, Internet strategy, web development business practices, and industry points of interest. I continue loading the admin of my Wordpress blog day in and day out because I like connecting with people. It also gives me warm fuzzies to post on here because I know I learned about web development by reading other people's blogs. If you read something on here that you like, feel free to leave me a comment, ask me a question, and/or introduce yourself. If you need some help formulating a strategy for your website or defining a project before hiring professional web development company, I am available for strategic Internet consulting.
