The Speed of Life
February 4, 2010 -To say that 2010 has been a blur so far would be a complete understatement. In the wee span between January 15th – 30th Kristi... View Article
To say that 2010 has been a blur so far would be a complete understatement. In the wee span between January 15th – 30th Kristi... View Article
After being in business for nearly three years I’ve finally made a website. I love how ironic it was to not have a site, as... View Article
I’m entering my third year of freelance and contract work with my business identity Debut Creative, and the website still looks like this. Yes, as... View Article
I can’t look back on this year without grimacing at the lesson hardest learned: data management. Since the first time I accidentally deleted project content... View Article
Too often I find a web project comes with such a tight deadline that there is no time for experimentation. This is one of the... View Article
Do you remember learning about newspaper design in your Pre-Press class? Me either! Basically a newspaper page is usually broken up into five or six... View Article
Office spaces are very interesting to me. I’ve been a heavy computer user since 1995 at the green age of fourteen. I have worked in... View Article
The second of two very large sites I recently worked on just went live this week. Nipissing Universities Prospective Students site is geared towards high... View Article
Today marks the launch of the 8th version of ArleyM.com! It wasn’t too long ago that Phase 7 was launched, but with all that I... View Article
About a year and a half ago I started doing weekly updates for a local Kincardine newspaper. Their site was a static HTML site with... View Article
In my experience there is no such thing as perfect hosting. No matter who the provider there can be problems. GoDaddy boasts 99.9% uptime (which... View Article
Freelancing has its ups and downs. The thing I think I miss most is the predictable paycheque. Now depending on the client I often get... View Article
As a freelancer all of my income comes from client work. So it might be somewhat unorthodox to send away a would-be client. Today I... View Article
A week that started as a confusing jumble is ending awesomely. This week has seen two excellent client meetings, and has been one of my... View Article
It has been an incredibly busy month for me! So much so that I’ve been shirking my bloggy responsibilities somewhat. In addition to biketrips, visits... View Article
Job titles are a subject that have always made me a bit edgy. They can be either so detrimental as to be insulting or so... View Article
Yesterday I finished work on the Piel Construction logo for friend and client Dave Piel. Dave is well known in the area, and we wanted... View Article
I’m back from a week of lovely vacationing with Kristi. We had many adventures: Cottaging, familying, clarinetting, puzzling, gaming, travelling, shopping, hiking, gardening, and visiting.... View Article
Today was the launch of the site for North Bay and area rockers Jake and the Fundamentals. I got this project through my old friend,... View Article
I recently read an article about freelance philosophies that really opened my eyes. For the last year I have busier than ever without ever taking... View Article
You know what I like to do on a weekend? FILING! Over the weekend my wife and I tackled the enormous job of combining all... View Article
This week my computer died in an ironic way. Even reformatting was resulting in bsod’s. It hasn’t been all bad though. Working on the laptop... View Article