It’s Day #6, I think my lack of sleep is making me boring? LOL. Anyway, today it’s been all about polishing up the theme, making sure nothing is overlooked. When you’re designing a blog theme, you have to think about not only the information that will be on the site when it is launched, but [...]

As you already know, if you follow me on Twitter — this weekend I attended the 1st Annual WordCamp Seattle. WordCamp was a day-long conference all about WordPress community, and a place for designers, developers, bloggers, all those in between. I took a lot of notes during the speakers I saw and brought home several [...]

Sometimes there are things I think about or talk about with friends and I want to write about them on the blog, but I get tied up with polishing them and packaging them into a larger idea. I’ve decided I’d get more actual content out and up if I stop this and just throw out [...]

So, I recently was thinking about 404′s for some client projects and ended up doing a lot of exploring through the internet to see what others are doing. Error pages are something that is just annoying, but some of these websites designers have come up with ways to make the 404 a little less of [...]

I’m sure you’ve noticed the trend too, text fields just seem to be gettign bigger and bigger! I gathered up some slightly large, pretty large and the straight out HUGE login, search, and form fields from the web. If you know of one I didn’t include, leave a comment and let me know about it! [...]

I’m flattered that the people over at ODesk Blog have included CMD+Shift Design Blog on this epic list! There are so many great links in this article, check it out! Top 100 Freelance Blogs

For the next installment in my interview series, here’s another kick ass freelancer, Krissy Gogel of 6bDesign in Baltimore. You can check out her blog and work at 6bdesign.com or follow her on Twitter @6bdesign. Give us your “elevator pitch”, who are you and what do you do? I’m a freelance web designer, all around [...]

It feels like February has been really hectic, so hectic that I can’t even think of anything that actually happened — does that make sense to anyone else but me? I started up my store where you can get my HEX Color coffee mugs, plus other nerdy gifts and goodies. My business cards design was [...]

This next interview is with Niki Brown, a web designer and blogger living in Boston, MA. She works by day at a small web design firm and by night (and in the wee hours of morning) cranks out freelance design and content for her design blog, which I am sure you all know and love, [...]

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