“Design Inspired”, maybe more than just inspiration?
Maybe it’s just me, but when I see the term ‘inspired’ within a design companies title, I almost always become suspicious — it’s akin to a car sales man asking me to trust him… if you have to showcase...
View ArticleHost Rocket – Support and Customer service that doesn’t care
Probably one of the more frustrating hosts I’ve had to deal with , Host Rocket lost all of our client’s data… and not just the standard issue website data, the emails on the server, and their...
View ArticleHow you say it reflects how you work
It can be both impressive and inspiring to watch the reaction/interaction with your day to day clientele. Just today, we did something that we’ve never done at dotfive – we passed on projects. Lately,...
View ArticlePrint Production: A many part series
Recently Mark Boulton published his Web Designers guide to Print Design, a needed and well founded discussion about the variations of print to the new media web. Playing off this idea, I realized I...
View ArticleHow not to redesign your store by Converse.com
Converse has done a fantastic job at creating an online store catered to a more interactive shoe search… trouble is, it has some newbie failure that’s almost instantly apparent even to the novice....
View ArticlePrint Production: Color for print, color for web – 1 of 3
Color Science, Color Theory, Color Calibration; much of it in our industry is still a psuedo-science — filled with much speculation, and, to tell you the truth, professional confusion. In my production...
View ArticleTypography for the Web, a client overview
Often times we’re asked about unusual bugs that transfer from content typed at the office into our the beautiful content management system we designed for our clients. Those of you who are print...
View ArticleSteve Bojesen, thank you
When I was near 16 years of age, I had the dumbfounded luck to be hired on as a production artist in training for American Outfitters; gifting me a chance at a career I wanted earlier than most people...
View ArticleThe web is not print: helping a client in the transition
Every web designer finds himself grounded by the volumes of theory, recommendations, and standards when they first step into this industry. It can be a little more than intimidating when you imagine...
View ArticleWeb 101
Web development, as we’ve discussed many times, is a varying hodgepodge of misinformation coupled with varying experts; many of them are geniuses and fantastic leaders of this industry, although at...
View ArticleWordCamp 2006
Matt Mullenweg, founder and leader of the renowned blogging tool WordPress, kicked off the first annual WordCamp celebration this year, featuring a day of events catered to the new WordPress developer....
View ArticleStifling Design with Creative Management
There is a sincere divide between managing the talents of your artists and guiding the talents of your artists; each industry falters in it’s own special way, and each industry sees the same common...
View ArticleRoman Cart says that dynamic code is bad?
From the Roman Cart site: We strongly recommend that you create your website using html, and not a server side language such as php or asp. The reason for this is that Google will find your products on...
View ArticleUpgrade to PHP 5 on a Media Temple (dv) Dedicated Virtual Server
For those of you frustrated on your aged PHP for Media Temple DV, they’ve recently released a step-by-step rpm install for PHP 5 on your server. While this worked in installing PHP without a hitch (I...
View ArticleSemantic Code for CubeCart
CubeCart is one of many standards-compliant shopping cart systems at the forefront of the new internet. Its focus is on pursuing an entry level store system for the average to advanced user, minimizing...
View Article“Get your Blog on…”
I spoke recently on dotfive about our experience at the new Wordcamp – openly I am not a blogger by trade… it’s simply a tool for our design and development, and I enjoy the craft with my writing...
View ArticleFalkner Winery rips off Cork’d
Or maybe it was design inspiration. Nevertheless, Falkner winery has taken the disgusting tactic of removing said complaints from their blog, without apology or otherwise. I’m thinking of making a...
View ArticleOut to Lunch says accessibility is in ‘no way possible’
Recently I’ve posted comments on Out to Lunch’s remark against accessibility on the web who notes when debating how to code for the blind: I see it in no way possible given current technology. This may...
View ArticleIncrease your traffic with Publications
Lately, we’ve learned to love the search results for Technorati. Where Google typically indexes news and general sites, Technorati uses technology to spider blogs and independent news sites with nearly...
View ArticleWordPress – designing without style
Joe Trotter discusses his distaste for default wordpress designs and laments on the cookie cutter appeal wordpress has on it’s average users. Most will agree that the default themes suit the average...
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