Today at the Star Inn in Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, I was reminded of one thing that I really like about country pubs in England: their simplicity. You actually can walk into a country pub and just ask for a pint of bitter. And you get one. The guy or gal behind the bar, more […]
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As a a web designer, I regularly grab and email screenshots of various websites. I send screenshots to clients to point out cross-browser compatibility issues (obviously on their old websites; not on ones I have created. Ha-ha.) When working with a web developer, I often use screenshots to report error messages or to highlight a
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About three years ago I took a weekend course at Central St Martins on Macromedia Flash. The course met for 4 or 5 hours for six Saturdays in a row. I attended all the sessions except one, when my oldest child (who was then only an baby) was sick. The course was taught by Ray
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Earlier today, I was doing a bit of tweaking and maintenance to the web server I hire from Memset.com. More specifically, I was poking around the Web Host Manager control panel, trying to resolve some email issues for a client whose site and email I host. When I looked at the Mail Delivery Stats (something
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In recent months, I have started using Adobe InDesign to create page layouts for websites. No, not to create the actual layout in a Dreamweaver or in a hand-coding sense, but as a tool for sharing design concepts and creative ideas with clients. InDesign offers effective design control (in an Illustrator-sense) to make it a
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On Tuesday of this week, I gave a presentation on websites as part of Central St Martins’ Fask Track Programme. More specifically, I spoke to professional creatives who either just had started or were about to start their own businesses about the need for to have a business website, about how to get a website
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I began this week by jumping into a new corporate identity project for a new client, and I was in the mood for a bit of inspiration. I wanted to get something about logo design or a book of logos. I was reluctant to buy something off the web because I wanted to flip through
When casually surfing the net the other night, flipping about hither and thither, I made my normal stop on Drew McClellan’s site to see what he had to say. From there I popped through to Klaus Komenda’s site. Boy, was I pleased with what I found there! In a post about Debugging IE, Klaus listed a variety of tools for doing so.
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Liam Dempsey is a marketing and design consultant. Through his business, LBDesign, he works with businesses and non-profits in the US, UK, and beyond. He loves pizza, craft beers, and time with family and good friends.