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Alex J. Ventpap
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Designer's Block: How to Handle a Lack of Creativity Without Burning Billable Hours

August 27th, 2010 by Alex J. Ventpap

So you’re sitting down to a new website design project. You make some coffee, set up your files, crack your knuckes, and … nothing. Just empty white space – both on the screen and in your head. Or maybe you’re part-way through the project, but haven’t been feeling the inspiration. The muse is off on an extended coffee break and yet the clock is still ticking towards your deadline. Sound familiar? In this blog post I’ll share some tips on awakening the creative beast within and making the most of your billable time. They may not work for everyone, but they’ve certainly helped me tear my eyes away from the peeling paint on the wall and get back to work with fresh energy and ideas. 1. Fill With Content Give your creative side a break. You know all those administrative or non-creative parts of your job you hate but that still need doing? This is the time to do them. For example, if you’re in a creative rut and can’t get out, trying enlisting the content as support.

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Alex J. Ventpap
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Design on the Go: Best Practices for Mobile Sites

November 20th, 2009 by Alex J. Ventpap

Being able to design for mobile devices is a skill that is becoming more and more crucial for any web designer. Gone are the days when having a website for a company or organization is good enough – increasingly, people are looking for information while on the go, and designing for those tiny screens is a whole new ball game. Designing for mobile devices has a different set of rules than designing for the web – and in order to keep up with the way the market is going, you’ve got to be able to do both well.

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Alex J. Ventpap
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Designing for Drupal: Photoshop Best Practices (Part 3 of 3)

September 21st, 2009 by Alex J. Ventpap

My last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) discussed various tips and tricks for designing for content management systems (CMS) in Photoshop. So far we’ve covered how to get set up and get started, as well as some of the main components of a CMS website like the background, navigations, columns and content blocks. This week’s post is about how to finish things off and add polish with headings, footers and lots of fine-tuning.

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Alex J. Ventpap
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Designing for Drupal: Photoshop Best Practices (Part 2 of 3)

September 17th, 2009 by Alex J. Ventpap

My last post served as an introduction to designing for content management systems (CMS) in Photoshop – how to get set up and get started. In this post I’d like to give you some tips for designing some of the main components of a CMS website: the background, navigations and columns and content blocks. Next week’s post will show you how to finish things off with headings, footers and lots of fine-tuning.

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Alex J. Ventpap
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Designing for Drupal: Photoshop Best Practices (Part 1 of 3)

September 11th, 2009 by Alex J. Ventpap

Usually the first thing that comes to a designer’s mind when designing a website for a Content Management System (CMS) like Drupal is the “boring square style.” It can be challenging to have an out-of-the-box design that is still flexible enough to be scalable, but it is possible. You might say that in order to be truly creative a designer needs some rules to break, and the tight boundaries that can come with designing for a CMS can offer new challenges. This is why designing for Drupal is anything but boring – it can be interesting and challenging for any designer.

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Vanessa Turke
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ImageX Media Wins First Place at American Design Awards

June 19th, 2009 by Vanessa Turke

ImageX Media was recently awarded first place at the American Design Awards (ADA) for their design of the Delta School District website. “We are thrilled to receive top honours for design excellence by the ADA,” says Glenn Hilton, President of ImageX Media.

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Linda Bustos
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404 Not Found Pages: Examples and Tips

June 11th, 2009 by Linda Bustos

When a page no longer exists on your site, a visitor will see a 404 page.

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Linda Bustos
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Is Your Website Old School? 5 Reasons To Redesign With CSS

January 19th, 2008 by Linda Bustos

Many small business owners have a hard time seeing the value of a website redesign. They believe “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”; And this is understandable. Unless you are eating, breathing and sleeping technology and staying up to date with the moving target of Internet business, you’re not likely to know intuitively if your site needs a redesign.

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