Website Design, SEO

Caterpillar Manuals – New Design

Just finished up on the new design of Caterpillarmanuals.com. They offer the world’s largest selection of Caterpillar Manuals (Note: domain has changed as well as the logo and design).  They currently offer over 3,000 different Cat manuals to choose from.  They offer Caterpillar parts manuals, service manuals and operator manuals for both new and [...]

New Work for Super Deluxe – Charleston, SC Wedding & Party Band

Some new work I’m doing for Super Deluxe, a live music band based in Charleston, SC.  They’re one of the best Charleston wedding bands around.  But they do more than just weddings, they’re available for any live events and have played around the US and Mexico.  I’ve designed the logo and am currently working on [...]

EZNumbers.com Launches

Just launched the new design for EZnumbers.com. I was responsible for the logo design, software box art, software GUI and website redesign. I worked closely over the last few months with the owner Paul Hynek to launch his new and refreshing website. I’m very proud of this site and glad to finally see it go [...]

Thumbs Up on the Redesign of DNSstuff.com

DNSstuff.com looks so much better now that it has been redesigned. DNSstuff.com is a tool I use everyday to check whois info and to do DNS lookups. And it has looked the same for years. The new design is so refreshing. Here’s what the CEO of DNSstuff.com Rich Person had to [...]

I Love iStockPhoto! Great, Cheap Stock Photography, Videos, Illustrations

I can’t express how much I love iStockphoto. They have so many usefull graphics and videos for super cheap it’s ridiculous. You can find a ton of usefull photos, videos, illustrations, icons, etc there. If you’re a freelance web designer and don’t already use istockphoto then you’re missin out, period.
Downloads for [...]

Birthday Website Invitation Design

Examples of a birthday invitation website design I did for a friend. He wanted a website to send his friends to so they could rsvp.

View the live site at _______ – no longer online.

Make your CSS file smaller and clean it up

Want to clean up your CSS file and make it smaller in size? Check out this CSS tool that strips out whitespace, indents your css nicely etc. You can remove a lot of wasted space from your css from using it and I’ve already put it to use on one of my sites. [...]

Create your own wordpress theme from any css design layout

I found this cool site that allows you to turn your css design into a wordpress theme. It’s perfect for matching up the design for a newly installed wordpress blog on an existing site. It is really easy to use. You just create an account and get started. You need your stylesheet [...]

Daily Color Schemes

Looking for some color scheme ideas for your website or blog? I stumbled onto Daily Color Scheme which provides one new color scheme per day on their homepage. They also offer multiple formats to download the color scheme in including css, html, photoshop/illustrator file etc. I think this a nice idea as you can simply [...]

Free Flash Photo Gallery Script

I stumbled upon this cool little flash photo gallery script that allows you to run a cool flash slideshow on your site. It is super easy to install and use. It’s basically a few files you have to upload and change the permissions to.

Then upload your images and it will create the thumbnails [...]

Color Picker – Find Hex Colors Easily

I just stumbled upon this free tool that helps you pick colors on your screen and easily grab the hex code as well as RGB, CMYK, HSB values as well.  When I want to grab the exact hex code to use in design I often take a screenshot and paste that into a new file [...]

Mat Heerema’s New Blog Design

I stumbled upon Mat Heerema’s blog looking for other blogs on web design. Right off the bat I liked the way he redesigned his site and that he uses “tags” which I haven’t learned how to do yet. He’s also discovered some cool blogs that have recently been redesigned including

Veerle’s Blog
Jonathan Snook
Jeff Croft
Natalie [...]

Background Graphics

Here are some background graphics created for electronic voice phenomenon. A site that I regularly update with weird and crazy sounds/music/electronic experimentation.

David Carson, Favorite Designer

David Carson has been my favorite designer since college (94-98).  Graphic design was my major and I would always make sure to get every copy of Raygun which Carson was the art director of.  I loved Raygun because it was refreshing, cool and didn’t follow rules.  Being a huge music fan I liked the fact [...]

Great Toolbar for Web Designers

I recently came across a great toolbar for web designers. It has a whole bunch of cool features that will speed up testing and overall put more information at your fingertips when designing a website. I won’t go through all the features, you will just have to check them out for yourself. [...]

t26 Fonts for Design

t26 has been around for awhile and it’s always nice to see what new fonts they have in stock. Signing up for their newsletter gives you an inside scoop to what their next month of new fonts holds. They have spectacular fonts btw and all reasonably priced. They also have a typesetter [...]

Rotate Random Images

You can use this script to rotate random images on your site or blog.  It requires the use of php but is very easy to install and use.  You can see it in use at hivelogic’s site and also global travel source’s site.  Just refresh your browser to see the changes.  All you need to [...]

Creating Monochrome Logos

First take a screenshot of the webpage where the logo is you want to use. Or you can usually right click and save the logo to your desktop.
Go into your graphics editor such as Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop and create a new file. I used Fireworks for this example. If you have [...]