Does data make the designer?

Last week Doug Bowman let us all know he was leaving Google as their “Visual Design Lead.” I don’t know for sure but it sounds like he’s been Google’s Art Director. He had a pretty specific reason for leaving as he noted in his blog post: Without a person at (or near)...

Custom Twitter Icon Roundup

I’d wager an unscientific guess that about 90% of the sites in our gallery in the last year or so have some sort of Twitter icon. Normally, it’s an icon that someone pulls from an icon site or a version of the twitter logo. But there are some that go above...

How to Build a WordPress Plugin

The Problem Every so often the WordPress plugin directory does not offer a complete solution to a problem you are having. When this happens, sometimes the best option is to dig into the WordPress Plugin API and build what you need. A Development Environment To begin,...

UMS at FOWA 2009 Miami

If you saw the last news post, or have been following our twitter feed, you know that Gene and I went to Future of Web Apps 2009 in Miami. Ryan Carson of Carsonified really put on a first rate show, the speakers and topics were truly enlightening, and most of all,...

FOWA 2009

So we’re off to Future of Web Apps 2009. Really looking forward to hearing some of the speakers, people like; Gary Vaynerchuck, Jason Fried, Joel Spolsky & Kevin Hale. We’ll be trying to meet some interesting people there who work on the web and gain...

CSS: It’s not that hard.

This article isn’t meant to hash over the pro and cons of which one is better in the age-old (at least since 2001 or so) css vs. tables debate. I really don’t care which one you use. If you can get your work done quickly, make money, and sleep well at night, then that...