I lose count of how many times I see this message. I don’t think a day goes by without Internet Explorer crashing. The thing is I have no desire to send an error report to Microsoft ..EVER. Does anyone know how to shut off this window for good?
Category: Random Thoughts
Corporate outsourcing of graphic and web design work
Over the last few years there has been a distinct trend for corporations to outsource elements of their businesses, everything from IT to payroll services. Graphic and web design services are no exception and we now have a number of these corporate outsource accounts in our client mix.
With these clients we provide the same creative services as if they had a full time employee and once we are up to speed with their brand and product offerings are able to respond to requests promptly.
Quite a bit of work this past month has been for our corporate clients and includes a logo redesign, business card design, the creation of a set of web banners, label creation, navigational improvements on a web site, web site updates and generation of a the look feel for web interfaces.
Our work is billed hourly and the clients are given weekly status reports on hours spent.
If you are a corporation looking to outsource your web and graphic design services we would welcome an opportunity to talk with you.
Celebrating a St Louis Web Designer Milestone
Today marks my 300th post as the St Louis Web Designer. It’s time to celebrate with some graphic design!
New development in The Central West End St Louis
I have updated one of our clients web sites, www.embrace4449.com today with some photographs of a recently completed construction project in the Central West End. The project included the renovation of an old building into condos and the building new Townhomes.
Check them out at 4449 Olive StreetCentral West End, St Louis.
For this project we created the logo, building banners, web site and brochure.
The power of Adobe Photoshop Filters
One of the main tools of my trade is Adobe Photoshop.
I encountered a little creative block while trying to think of something to write on my blog today and sat there doodling with photoshop. In less than 2 minutes this is what I had created …all done with standard abode filters. I used a smudge stick, accented the edges, applied a difference cloud and added some grain .. the only way I know this now is beacuse is by checked the history on the file I created.
Below this photo you will see the one I started with.
Congratulations to St Louis children’s author, Cynthia Reeg
We have been working with Cynthia Reeg for coming up to two years now and are always delighted to hear of her successes.
She has had a busy summer with the publishing of two new books.
The first, Doggie Day Camp gives young readers a great introduction to verbs and adverb
Her second book of the summer The Girls is a collection of the five winning stories selected from the SmartWriters.com fiction contest
Cynthia very generously mailed a copy of The Girls to my ten year old daughter yesterday who was thrilled not only to recieved such a great book..but an author signed great book!
To learn more about Cynthia Reeg and order her books visit http://www.cynthiareeg.com/
Eye of a St Louis Web Designer
As weeks go if I compare last week with this week, they are like chalk and cheese.
This week has been a whirl wind of activity. I secured contracts for three new web sites, started design work on said sites, juggled all exisiting projects…currently numbering 13. I have jumped around from logo design to seo work to brochure design, web site population, web site design…
As a contrast last week was a week of complete relaxation on the Oregon coast…such a great place to go especially when it was 90+ deg. here in St Louis.
After this week I feel in need of another vacation already!
Another great printer for your design projects
I recently had some business cards printed for a project and decided to give another printer a try. My usual printer is http://www.printingforless.com/, I have been very happy with their service and results. However a quick Google search brought up http://www.vistaprint.com/ and after a few minutes looking through their web site the price for their premium business cards was rather appealing. I placed the order and recieved the cards within the week. The quality was great.
My first order resulted in a flood of emails from Vista Print with offers for free this and free that. I thought I’d take advantage of one of these offers…not exactly free as they charge for design upload..around $4.00 if my memory serves me right. And then there was shipping. I opted for the slow shipping but recieved my oversized postcards within the week. But another great result, 5he printing was crisp and clean and the colors spot on.
I will definately be using them again
We are being published in a new design book!
One of our web site has recently been selected to feature in a new design book, Market Smart Design. It will be published by Harper Collins in Spring 2009.
“MARKET SMART DESIGN Great Design Examples Created Specifically For Target Markets.
A smart, new graphic design bookfocusing on market segmentation.”
The site we created for “The Rockwood” , a senior living community, will feature in the Baby Boomers category.
During the entire design process we kept a high level of focus on the target audience of the site. It features an important usability option allowing a visitor to easily adjust the size of the type on the page.
We are delighted “The Rockwood” has been selected for publishing!
Color Punch..another new theme for iGoogle users.
Google recently index another theme I created for their iGoogle dash board.
The theme, titled Color Punch, is dynamic changing 7 times throughtout the day. The designs and color are pretty” in your face” hence the name. So far the theme has had great reviews and ratings
“Great theme! Love the way it changes colors – and how often it changes. Brilliant designs and colors. Great job – thanks!”
To use any of our themes click here
