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March 2010: 14: Integrating Twitter and Textpattern; 09: Hire People Better Than You
February 2010: 19: Statistics: For What It's Worth
January 2010: 30: Apple iPad Advertising: 35% Superlative Garbage; 24: 2009 Reading List Recap; 09: Your Design Portfolio Has 10 Mistakes
November 2009: 06: Ignore Keywords; GOOG Fail
June 2009: 08: Futureproofing Websites
May 2009: 14: RDFa, Microformats, Standards: Big Questions
March 2009: 01: Web Teams Should Be In Marketing
February 2009: 13: Recent Writing; 02: Eight Ways to Save Your Client Money
January 2009: 27: Damn Google and Their Sweet Apps; 11: Looking for Contributors; 02: Prepare to Get Laid Off
December 2008: 23: Textpattern 4.0.7 is Awesome
October 2008: 16: The Business Side Needs Equal Devotion
September 2008: 16: Marketing GeoTrax: Build a Better Website
August 2008: 02: Print Design + Web Design = Document Design
July 2008: 15: The Art of Client Service
June 2008: 30: Customer Service. Duh.; 09: Why I Use and Love Photoshop for Mockups
May 2008: 21: Branding the TXP Admin Interface for Clients; 07: I Guess It's Selling OK Then
April 2008: 22: You Can Lead Them to Water; 06: 99designs: Bullshit 2.0
March 2008: 26: The Pain of Evaluating WCM Software
February 2008: 20: Meeting Face to Face With Clients; 13: Web Design for ROI; 07: Referral From a Lost Opportunity
January 2008: 29: The Communist Approach; 10: Improve Search Results in Textpattern; 06: 2007 Reading List Recap
December 2007: 17: Web Design Copyright; 06: Thieving Bastards
November 2007: 28: A Small Bit of Ego; 13: The Plight of B2B Marketing Collateral; 06: Catching Up With My Brain
October 2007: 30: Certification of Quality?; 26: Review Copies of WDAMSFBW; 15: I Hate BlackBerries; 01: Do Not Follow the Carrot
September 2007: 25: All Flash, No Standards; 18: Advice for the First-Time Author; 10: A Comedy of Parallel Dilemmas; 04: Buying the Kids' Domain Names
August 2007: 29: Now Available: Web Design and Marketing Solutions For Business Websites; 22: Advertising Design and Typography; 16: SEO Plugins for Textpattern; 07: Wasted Talent
July 2007: 20: The Calendar is the New To-Do List; 10: Analysis of 200 Business Homepages
June 2007: 29: Elegant Contact Form in Textpattern; 16: Qualities of Candidates; 10: A Return With Color
May 2007: 26: Textpattern Solutions (She Lives!)
November 2006: 29: The Itch and the Hibernation; 08: Resume Tips for Designers
October 2006: 30: Learning to Listen; 24: Promoted to Creative Director; 20: Sales Reps for Printers Are Out of Control; 16: Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers; 10: I Still Love You, I Swear
September 2006: 28: Freelancing Metrics; 24: Flakes on a Plane; 13: The Business Side of Creativity; 11: Six Tips for Better Project Management; 02: My Fantasy Football Team
August 2006: 29: The Version the Prospect Remembers; 23: Prioritizing Web Usability (aka, the New Jakob Nielsen Book); 18: Some New Favorite TXP Plug-Ins; 10: The Graphic Design Business Book; 08: Thoughts on Viral Marketing
July 2006: 30: Responding to Unsolicited Design Inquiries; 24: Designing With Web Standards: Second Edition; 17: In a Father's Footsteps; 05: Writing for Design Professionals
June 2006: 28: KC Chiefs' Tragic Online Fumble; 26: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions; 20: Textpattern Template: Clean and Green; 19: Deciding URL Structure; 12: Using Textpattern's If_Different Tag to Sort Articles; 09: Open Source Graphic Design; 05: What Makes a Good Creative Director?
May 2006: 29: Sacred Consumer Golf; 25: In Joe We Trust; 23: Providing Outbound Communication; 18: 40 Hours a Day; 11: Writing Press Releases for a Design Business; 04: The Design Career Mortality
April 2006: 27: Overheard in the Office; 25: Moving a Textpattern Install to a New Host; 19: Brave New World; 12: Commission-Based Payment for Web Design; 04: The Reality of Lo-Fi Design
March 2006: 29: Quotes and Case Studies in Your Portfolio; 23: The Power of Custom Fields in TXP; 16: Business as Usual?; 08: Promoting Yourself For Free (Part 2); 06: Promoting Yourself For Free (Part 1)
February 2006: 26: Textpattern Template: Sapphire; 23: Make Your Blog Content Work For You; 10: Handling Client-Designer Breakups; 10: A Subtle Re-Alignment; 02: Using Illustrator CS2 To Sharpen Vector Graphics
January 2006: 27: Three Things Worth Clicking This Week; 25: Hiring a Junior Designer; 18: The Path to Intelligent HTML; 12: Sirius; 08: Reviewing the 2005 Business Goals; 02: Defensive Design for the Web
December 2005: 26: The Orange Really Does Matter; 21: Christmas for the TXP Crew; 13: How Obtuse Are You?; 07: Like Eating a Box of Nails; 04: 9rules
November 2005: 27: A Serendipitous 1-Up; 17: It's In Your Job Description; 13: Market Advantages of a Freelancer; 08: Multi-Category Landing Page in TXP; 07: If I Wasn't a Designer
October 2005: 31: Let's Talk Football; 26: Bands With Brands; 20: Freelancing for Friends; 15: A Frosty Redesign; 05: SEO, SEM, Black Hats and Oprah
September 2005: 27: How to Raise Rates as a Freelancer; 21: It's All Wicked Worn and Stuff; 15: Star HTML Hack is Fading From the Horizon; 07: Non-Design Skills for Designers
August 2005: 29: Textpattern 4.0: Now for Client Sites!; 25: Bulletproof Web Design; 20: The US Airways Abattoir of Suffering; 05: Today I Hate the Internet; 01: Consistent Accesskey Functionality
July 2005: 27: Blogodome; 21: The Golf Ball Logo Test; 11: Zeldman's DWWS: Two Years Later; 07: Preparing Templates; 01: Work for Hire and Freelance Web Designers
June 2005: 26: graphicPUSH Icons: Bigger, Faster, Stronger; 23: The New Generation of Clients; 15: Chicago; 13: Colorizing the Blog Icons; 04: The Midwestern Time Zone
May 2005: 25: Selling the Brand's Soul; 18: A Review of InDesign CS2; 11: Custom Meta Tags in Textpattern; 05: Now With Multiple Undos!; 02: HOW Magazine's Redesign
April 2005: 21: Opera 8 Is the Best Browser Ever; 18: Upgrading to Textpattern RC3
March 2005: 12: This Was Not a Blog.; 10: Having Issues; 07: Trading Services; 01: New Work: Sterling Export Website
February 2005: 22: Kottke Goes Solo; 20: Opera Spanks; 14: Cut, Paste, Publish: The Path From Zines to Blogs; 07: The Penalty of Undercharging
January 2005: 31: Productivity!; 26: Booked for HOW; 19: Setting Yearly Business Goals; 14: Fun With Spam; 09: Textpattern Notes: Creating the Archive; 04: Greenwashing
December 2004: 31: Up and Running With Textpattern
November 2004: 30: Seat Recliners; 19: The Global Employee; 11: Upcoming Redesign; 07: Werk Muzik; 01: Site Upgrade: Viewpoint Consulting
October 2004: 28: iPod = Awesome; 21: Looking Back, Moving Forward; 15: Building Blocks of In-House Success; 11: The Blog Influence; 08: More Fresh Ink; 02: Image Replacement
September 2004: 28: Three Babies; 21: Designing for the Trade Show Environment; 15: The State of Browsing; 10: Proposal Writing; 01: The Love of Vinyl; 01: Self-Promotion: Finding Your Theme
August 2004: 26: Branding With Type; 19: PDF Magazines; 11: An Article Pair; 11: Why Your Client Cares About Web Standards; 10: Better Invoices for Better Business; 06: Dropping Quark; 02: Ethical Pricing
July 2004: 28: Second Place; 26: Putting PowerPoint on the Web; 17: Designing PowerPoint; 12: Finding Your Theme; 05: Next Level Photography; 02: Web Standards Solutions
June 2004: 29: Backgrounds With Impact; 28: The Monday Linkies; 22: Unpaid Revamp; 17: Surviving as a Blogger; 14: Designers and Content; 07: Embracing Accessibility; 04: Further Opera Evangelism; 01: My New Lamborghini (or Why Some Web Sites Suck)
May 2004: 30: Better Dropshadows; 25: Brand Reinforcement in PowerPoint; 24: Rich Media Advertising: The Future is Bright; 21: Remove Final Black Slide; 18: Separation: Thoughts and Illustration; 17: Opera 7.5; 11: The New Blogger; 04: A Review of Opera 7.5
April 2004: 26: KC Designers Meeting; 21: In Praise of In-House Designers; 14: Retainers; 07: Dear Adobe: Your Strokes Need Help; 05: InDesign Conference 2004
March 2004: 31: Javascript and Tables: Perfect Together; 30: Movable Type Installation; 25: Free XML and RSS Icons; 24: Cheap Bastard Designers Rejoice!; 24: Move Settings Between Computers; 23: InDesign Update; 23: Creating Transparent Graphics; 20: Quick Access to Character Map; 18: Create a Custom Toolbar in PowerPoint; 16: What's Wrong with This (Stock) Picture?; 15: A Few Site Updates; 14: Translating Company Collateral to PowerPoint; 14: Typography in PowerPoint; 05: These Are Experts?
February 2004: 27: Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print; 26: Perfect Black; 23: Good Bundle for Quarkers; 09: The Branding of a Browser; 03: State of the Browser Market
January 2004: 26: Quark and Macromedia Offer Software Bundle; 20: The Ultimate Hacker's Guide to the CSS Galaxy; 15: Adobe Implements Anti-Counterfeit Technology; 07: Real Networks Gets It Right; 05: Adobe Discontinues PageMaker; 04: Open Source Fonts
December 2003: 22: More Free Icons; 18: Linkage Worth Clicking; 15: Best Practices in the Paper Trail; 14: An XML Virgin Does a Little Experimenting; 09: Guild of Accessible Web Designers Now Open; 03: Free Web Development Icons; 01: InDesign CS Backward Compatibility - Nope
November 2003: 25: Observations from MAX 2003; 13: Adobe InDesign CS - No Backward Compatibility; 11: Finding New Ways to Break and then Test CSS; 06: Webpage Printing: Typography and Usability Considerations; 05: Interview Tips for Designers
October 2003: 30: Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches; 30: Business Article on A List Apart; 25: The Pricing Wormhole; 22: New ALA, New iBooks; 19: Preparing QuarkXpress Files for Printing; 16: Mozilla and Opera Updates; 16: Designing Strong Direct Mail Letters; 16: iTunes for Windoze; 10: Web Marketing Alchemy: Search Engine Optimization; 09: Is Anyone Listening?; 08: The Eolas Aftermath; 01: New Software from Adobe and Markzware; 01: Polishing the CD-ROM Project; 01: Icon Editor Round Up

Archive By Category

Book Reviews: Web Standards Solutions; Zeldman's DWWS: Two Years Later; Bulletproof Web Design; Defensive Design for the Web; CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions; Writing for Design Professionals; The Graphic Design Business Book; Designing With Web Standards: Second Edition; Prioritizing Web Usability (aka, the New Jakob Nielsen Book); The Business Side of Creativity; Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers; Advertising Design and Typography; Web Design for ROI; The Art of Client Service
Browsers: The Eolas Aftermath; Is Anyone Listening?; Mozilla and Opera Updates; State of the Browser Market; The Branding of a Browser; Opera 7.5; Further Opera Evangelism; The State of Browsing; Opera 8 Is the Best Browser Ever; Opera Spanks
Business: Interview Tips for Designers; Best Practices in the Paper Trail; Retainers; Better Invoices for Better Business; Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches; Self-Promotion: Finding Your Theme; Rich Media Advertising: The Future is Bright; Ethical Pricing; Proposal Writing; The Global Employee; Setting Yearly Business Goals; Building Blocks of In-House Success; The Penalty of Undercharging; Trading Services; Work for Hire and Freelance Web Designers; How to Raise Rates as a Freelancer; Freelancing for Friends; Reviewing the 2005 Business Goals; Commission-Based Payment for Web Design; Writing Press Releases for a Design Business; In a Father's Footsteps; Six Tips for Better Project Management; Freelancing Metrics; Promoted to Creative Director; Resume Tips for Designers; Wasted Talent; The Communist Approach; Meeting Face to Face With Clients; Referral From a Lost Opportunity; The Business Side Needs Equal Devotion; Prepare to Get Laid Off
Client Relations: Handling Client-Designer Breakups; Responding to Unsolicited Design Inquiries; The Version the Prospect Remembers; Do Not Follow the Carrot; You Can Lead Them to Water; Eight Ways to Save Your Client Money
Design Concerns: Observations from MAX 2003; Linkage Worth Clicking; Open Source Fonts; Perfect Black; These Are Experts?; The Pricing Wormhole; What's Wrong with This (Stock) Picture?; Cheap Bastard Designers Rejoice!; In Praise of In-House Designers; Why Your Client Cares About Web Standards; Next Level Photography; Second Place; PDF Magazines; Branding With Type; Designing for the Trade Show Environment; Greenwashing; Productivity!; HOW Magazine's Redesign; Selling the Brand's Soul; The Golf Ball Logo Test; Non-Design Skills for Designers; Market Advantages of a Freelancer; Hiring a Junior Designer; The Reality of Lo-Fi Design; What Makes a Good Creative Director?; The Design Career Mortality; Open Source Graphic Design; Thoughts on Viral Marketing; All Flash, No Standards; Certification of Quality?; The Plight of B2B Marketing Collateral; Thieving Bastards; 99designs: Bullshit 2.0; Print Design + Web Design = Document Design; Marketing GeoTrax: Build a Better Website
Icons: graphicPUSH Icons: Bigger, Faster, Stronger; Colorizing the Blog Icons; The Orange Really Does Matter
Management: Qualities of Candidates; The Calendar is the New To-Do List; Customer Service. Duh.; Your Design Portfolio Has 10 Mistakes; Hire People Better Than You
Music: Real Networks Gets It Right; The Love of Vinyl; iPod = Awesome; Werk Muzik; Bands With Brands
PowerPoint: Translating Company Collateral to PowerPoint; Backgrounds With Impact; Brand Reinforcement in PowerPoint; Typography in PowerPoint; Move Settings Between Computers; Create a Custom Toolbar in PowerPoint; Quick Access to Character Map; Better Dropshadows; Remove Final Black Slide; Creating Transparent Graphics; Putting PowerPoint on the Web; Designing PowerPoint
Print Design: Designing Strong Direct Mail Letters; Preparing QuarkXpress Files for Printing; Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print; Using Illustrator CS2 To Sharpen Vector Graphics; Sales Reps for Printers Are Out of Control
Random Life: New ALA, New iBooks; The Monday Linkies; Three Babies; Seat Recliners; Fun With Spam; Cut, Paste, Publish: The Path From Zines to Blogs; Booked for HOW; Kottke Goes Solo; The Midwestern Time Zone; Chicago; Blogodome; Today I Hate the Internet; The US Airways Abattoir of Suffering; It's All Wicked Worn and Stuff; If I Wasn't a Designer; Let's Talk Football; A Serendipitous 1-Up; Sirius; Overheard in the Office; Three Things Worth Clicking This Week; Business as Usual?; 40 Hours a Day; My Fantasy Football Team; Flakes on a Plane; I Still Love You, I Swear; Learning to Listen; Buying the Kids' Domain Names; Catching Up With My Brain; A Comedy of Parallel Dilemmas; I Hate BlackBerries; 2007 Reading List Recap; The Pain of Evaluating WCM Software; 2009 Reading List Recap
Reviews: A Review of Opera 7.5; Icon Editor Round Up; A Review of InDesign CS2
Self-Promotion: Make Your Blog Content Work For You; Promoting Yourself For Free (Part 1); Quotes and Case Studies in Your Portfolio; Promoting Yourself For Free (Part 2); A Small Bit of Ego; I Guess It's Selling OK Then; Looking for Contributors
Site Update: A Few Site Updates; Movable Type Installation; Upcoming Redesign; Having Issues; This Was Not a Blog.; A Frosty Redesign; 9rules; A Subtle Re-Alignment; The Itch and the Hibernation
Software: New Software from Adobe and Markzware; iTunes for Windoze; Adobe InDesign CS - No Backward Compatibility; InDesign CS Backward Compatibility - Nope; Adobe Discontinues PageMaker; Adobe Implements Anti-Counterfeit Technology; Quark and Macromedia Offer Software Bundle; Good Bundle for Quarkers; InDesign Update; InDesign Conference 2004; Dear Adobe: Your Strokes Need Help; Polishing the CD-ROM Project; Dropping Quark; Now With Multiple Undos!; Damn Google and Their Sweet Apps
Textpattern: Up and Running With Textpattern; Textpattern Notes: Creating the Archive; Upgrading to Textpattern RC3; Custom Meta Tags in Textpattern; Textpattern 4.0: Now for Client Sites!; Multi-Category Landing Page in TXP; Christmas for the TXP Crew; The Power of Custom Fields in TXP; Textpattern Template: Sapphire; Moving a Textpattern Install to a New Host; Using Textpattern's If_Different Tag to Sort Articles; Textpattern Template: Clean and Green; Some New Favorite TXP Plug-Ins; SEO Plugins for Textpattern; Elegant Contact Form in Textpattern; Improve Search Results in Textpattern; Branding the TXP Admin Interface for Clients; Textpattern 4.0.7 is Awesome; Integrating Twitter and Textpattern
Web Development: Finding New Ways to Break and then Test CSS; Free Web Development Icons; Guild of Accessible Web Designers Now Open; An XML Virgin Does a Little Experimenting; More Free Icons; The Ultimate Hacker's Guide to the CSS Galaxy; Webpage Printing: Typography and Usability Considerations; Web Marketing Alchemy: Search Engine Optimization; Free XML and RSS Icons; Javascript and Tables: Perfect Together; KC Designers Meeting; The New Blogger; Separation: Thoughts and Illustration; My New Lamborghini (or Why Some Web Sites Suck); Embracing Accessibility; Unpaid Revamp; Image Replacement; The Blog Influence; Looking Back, Moving Forward; Site Upgrade: Viewpoint Consulting; New Work: Sterling Export Website; The New Generation of Clients; Preparing Templates; Consistent Accesskey Functionality; Star HTML Hack is Fading From the Horizon; SEO, SEM, Black Hats and Oprah; It's In Your Job Description; Like Eating a Box of Nails; The Path to Intelligent HTML; Brave New World; Providing Outbound Communication; In Joe We Trust; Sacred Consumer Golf; Deciding URL Structure; KC Chiefs' Tragic Online Fumble; Analysis of 200 Business Homepages; Web Design Copyright; Why I Use and Love Photoshop for Mockups; Web Teams Should Be In Marketing; RDFa, Microformats, Standards: Big Questions; Futureproofing Websites; Ignore Keywords; GOOG Fail; Statistics: For What It's Worth
Writing: Business Article on A List Apart; Designers and Content; Surviving as a Blogger; Finding Your Theme; An Article Pair; More Fresh Ink; How Obtuse Are You?; Textpattern Solutions (She Lives!); A Return With Color; Now Available: Web Design and Marketing Solutions For Business Websites; Advice for the First-Time Author; Review Copies of WDAMSFBW; Recent Writing; Apple iPad Advertising: 35% Superlative Garbage

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