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Thoughts on My First Year Freelance Web Designing

FEB 4th 2009 • 5 Comments

I recently completed my first whole year of freelance web designing, and I thought I would share my experiences. When I first started, I was desperate for someone to tell me what exactly I should be doing to get started, but I couldn't find any blog entries about the topic. So I'll attempt to lay out all the nitty gritty details of how I run my business in the hopes that someone may find it useful.
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Putting Flash in its Place

MAY 8th 2008 • 1 Comments

One of the common questions that I receive from potential clients is whether or not I do Flash. The answer is always no. It's not because I hate Flash, but because I've never had or seen a use for it. So as a result, I never learned it. So I'd like to explain my philosophy when it comes to Flash on the web. I won't talk about horrible Flash practices such as animating every element on the page as it builds in and use that as an excuse to boycott the technology. Flash done well can be very useful.
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TMI - Too Much Information Unethical?

APR 19th 2008 • 3 Comments

My latest project in the form of goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/ (or g56ogle.com for short) has brought up an interesting ethical dillema for me. About a week ago I launched the site to serve basically as a re-skinned version of google.com. It gives users the ability to search the web in style. It's powered with Google's Adsense for Search, which allows me to simply throw the code in to handle all the actual searching functionality. When a user enters a search term and hits return they're taken to a results page, and the URL in their browser changes to something like this: "http://www.goo...oogle.com/results/?q=andrew+baron....". The search query is clearly indicated inside the actual URL. Now this might not seem to really matter because there's no way for me to actually see all the queries that people enter.
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Google Design with Style

APR 14th 2008 • 7 Comments

A new project I've gotten myself into came spur of the moment one weekend. It's essentially a redesign of google, giving users the ability to search with style. There have been a few attempts at redesigning google before, like here and here. But let's face it, Google's interface is very usable and clean, and we've all grown very accustomed to it, so there's little to be gained from reorganizing the structure or moving elements around. So I decided to approach it from another perspective and spice it up with graphics and cutting edge CSS techniques.
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