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WordPress Designers #1

Dave — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:54:54 +0000

Thus begins a series of posts on great blog (mostly WordPress) designers. The above studio hails from Toronto. Below, I highlight Matt Brett, another Ontario blog designer. Matt’s custom theme work is great, and his site has an awesome grunge look:

So who’s your favorite WordPress (or other blog platform) designer? Give ‘em a shout out below…

Stay tuned over the next few months as I highlight more designers!

CASE awards 2009

Dave — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:03 +0000

AIGA Nashville hosted it’s first CASE awards Show on June 20th in Nashville’s Cannery Ballroom – it was awesome to see local creatives in the same building! Click here for a complete list of winners from the evening.

Hanging in the Ballroom

SharePoint…Is This a Good Thing?

Dave — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:26:36 +0000

So I’m sitting in a SharePoint Designer 2007 class at a local tech college right now….I’ve been using SharePoint where I work for the past few months, trying to build custom site themes, etc., and I’m starting to wonder why Microsoft made this process so incredibly complex.

I’ve found blog after blog talking about the ridiculous process involved in building custom SharePoint templates and skins, and after going through that process once or twice, I am beginning to understand what all the complaining is about.

Why can’t they hire some good web designers at Microsoft? I mean – seriously people, this is becoming silly. Put some good layout & interface specialists on your team. All I have to say is ‘FrontPage’. Enough said. Let’s learn from other user-interface experts, Redmond WA crew. And please, stop talking about how incredible SharePoint Designer 2007 is. We all know it’s Microsoft FrontPage, repackaged.

*Note* – I don’t hate Microsoft…I used PC’s for years before I was on a Mac…I still use PC’s. But as a front-end UI guy, I’m tired of this stuff.

Nashville Webbies Unite!

Dave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:49:40 +0000

So this is my new blog for Nashville Web Designers-Developers. Why? I’m glad you asked…

In my search of Nashville weblogs, there wasn’t really a place for both developers and designers in Nashville to collaborate. So, if any of you out there are like me, and fit somewhere in the middle of the Web Design-Development world, you’ll be right at home here.