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Before I launch in to this, let me just say that, really, there’s no universally right way to choose the ideal web designer. There is no idea web designer. There’s just the best way for you, and the best web designer for you. I hope that the thoughts I lay out below [...]

Even though I’ve started a new job, which I love by the way, my freelance work continues. Last week I launched the newly redesigned Oregon Ki Society site, and it’s now in my portfolio. This one is particularly near and dear to my heart, as I began training Aikido with the OKS 11 [...]

Although this page went live a little while ago, I’ve just gotten around to writing it up. A scientist at the University of Santa Barbara contacted me about making a professional page for her. I’ve added it to my portfolio. I’m particularly happy about the image at the bottom of the page [...]

When I was a kid my family lived in Geneva for 5 years. It was a formative time in my life, and I still think very fond thoughts of the Swiss. I’ve always thought of them as a rather typical European country, but smaller, more quaint and with a much more closed and [...]

Right on, Mr. H!
Andrei Herasimchuk has just written an open letter to John Warnock at Adobe, suggesting that he, and really Adobe, contribute a small group of roughly 10 core fonts to the public domain. That’s not so cool. What’s cool is the rationale behind the request. If these fonts — fonts [...]

Why do people flip out over RoR? Primarily, because it’s fast. It’s so fast to develop new applications in RoR. But why? What separates RoR from any of the other frameworks out there? The approach that defines RoR is “convention over configuration,” and that’s where much of the speed comes [...]

Another client site went live recently: Goleta Valley Holistic Health Care. I’ve put a page in my portfolio about it. I wish them the best of luck with their new business.

I’ve just completed a new site for a local artist named Jessica Reichman. She approached me with a pre-existing web site that had gotten beaten with an ugly stick and then left unfinished. It failed to highlight her personality or her work. The new design does both. You can see my [...]