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A blast from the past for "September, 2006"

1. “I want to be like Mike” – Who is the Michael Jordan of web Design?

   Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | 39 Comments

   Another frustrating day as an in-house designer is typically attributed to the constant and unstoppable comparison of your work to “industry leaders”. It isn’t a project that goes by that a perfectly good brainstorm is inappropriately interrupted with the comment, “lets just see what Yahoo! is doing” or “how does Amazon handle this?” Why do […]

2. The Reflection: In defense of a Web 2.0 Design Trend!

   Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 | 21 Comments

   Yesterday an interesting topic arose among my co-workers based on a Signal vs. Noise recent post, “Reflections are the new drop shadows”. I’ve been notorious for using “reflections” around the office on some of our more high profile projects – is this wrong? Am I a trend whore whose designs will date themselves almost instantly? […]

3. Web Design Freelancers – how important is maintaining your client list?

   Monday, September 18th, 2006 | 11 Comments

   They say, statistically it is seven times harder to get a new client than it is to maintain an existing one. I’ve often wrote about the uniqueness of this industry at our present point in time – I wonder if we work in an environment that is an exception to this age-old rule of thumb? […]

4. Stock Market Goes Web 2.0 – Social Networking, Stock Ratings and More! - Motley Fool CAPS

   Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 | 17 Comments

   Late last night The Motley Fool released its beta version of “CAPS”; a free community based stock rating service. It seems as though every industry has been jumping on the “Web 2.0” band wagon; where there is a niche there is a way (so seems the slogan). The Fool on the other hand has […]

5. The reshaping of an industry: Legal precedence set for web accessibility

   Monday, September 11th, 2006 | 9 Comments

   A handful of Unites States court rulings throughout history have proven to reshape and completely transform American culture and its way of life. It appears as though on Thursday, a federal district court out of California may have made such a ruling for two very small, yet very important communities. It was ruled late last […]

6. Web Designers, how much experience is enough experience?

   Thursday, September 7th, 2006 | 41 Comments

   As a young designer I often cringe when I hear experience only being expressed by years worked. This is a wonderful industry – one of its perks is that a 20-something can bring just as much to the table as a 10 year veteran (which crazy enough can sometimes be a 20-something). If you know […]