Sometimes when I’m designing I’ve got through in a copyright or trademark symbol (Option + 2 if you are wondering!) and I can’t remember how! I came across this site today that is a quick cheat sheet of all sorts. Just copy and paste the character into whatever you re working on and voila!

I guess I am sort of a Mac evangelist. Since I first started working at an ad agency in 1999 and using a Mac, everyone that ever asks me about what sort of computer to buy is told “Get a Mac”. If you are looking to jump into the Macintosh camp, check out [...]

Here is a site offering free fonts for it’s users. Lot’s available here - do be careful when downloading and installing fonts… lots can go wrong if you get a corrupt one! Major font houses like House Industries are the best places to get fonts (a designer in business for many years will likely [...]

I’ve gone back and forth in terms of who I suggest my clients go to for email marketing. I keep coming back to Constant Contact. They seem like the industry standard and a lot of my clients have been very happy with them.
I’m interested in this new site I found today - iContact.com. There [...]

Here is a book I came across today - haven’t had a chance to skim through it. If you are looking to take the plunge into building your own blog using Wordpress, it’ll help to start with a book like this. Then you can increase your knowledge by visiting blogs like ours!
WordPress Complete: set [...]

Here is another website I did for Golden Gate Industries. The site is focused on finding customers that need to have emergency gas valves installed in their home. The design is still going back and forth a little, but it is pretty much wrapped up at this point. If you live in the Bay [...]

Here’s a good article on creating a dark, sleek website. Often a client will require their page to have a lot more information than what’s seen on this website, not just for the benefit of the user, but also for search engines. But this is a still a good tutorial on creating a nice [...]

Pretty neat little plug in - keeps graphical changes after an upgrade to the screen you see here (I think!). I’ll have to test it and post an update.
Custom Wordpress Log in Screen

PNG is obviously the best choice for images when designing websites. This can be argued of course, but the file size is small, and most importantly, there is true transparency available. If you ever see a cool little badge floating around on a website, chances are that it’s PNG. That said, I don’t use them.
Why? [...]