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While working on a project I found that the Fancybox buttons used to “navigate left”, “navigate right”, and “close” the Fancybox overlay, while beautiful, just weren’t right for the theme of the site. So I created my own navigation buttons and I felt that they fit seamlessly with the existing theme of Fancybox yet were appropriate for a completely different style of site. If you’re project has gold or gold would be a nice accent for it, you will love these buttons. They’re free to use for commercial and non-commercial projects, I ask only that you not post them for download yourself but link back to this page if you want to share them with friends and fellow web designers and developers.

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I would say that in my experience as a web designer and developer, deciding on what is a “fair rate” to charge for my work ranks as one of the most difficult aspects that has taken me a long time to get a handle on.

I wanted to post a little discussion on the topic of “fair rates” for web design. It is my hope that this video is a help to web designers who are just starting out and also people who are currently shopping for a web designer and are unsure of what to look for and what to expect in terms of skill, price, and a number of other factors. Hope it helps!

A discussion of fair rates…

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If I had known when I started designing this site that the result would be hours and hours of re-creating .GIF images with ugly white fringe pixels I just might have done something different. I searched high…

In the process of designing this blog I wound up with a number of thematic elements, and because I’m all about making the web a more magical place, I figured I’d share them. One theme that I ended up using only sparingly is what I would call a “Fiery Fairy Glossy Button Theme”. The idea was the same glowing trails that are found elsewhere on the site except they are “contained” inside of a glossy button. They’re kind of “Web 2.0″ and kind of “Disney”. The design for this site was most certainly inspired in part by Disney, and as much as I often have a love / hate relationship with Disney, I believe they tapped into something which is…