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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…

I love the culture that surrounds the web design industry.  Creative, free-spirited people who often work from home or freelance and work weird hours because they can and they feel like it.  Love it.  But I feel like there is alot of burnout and frustration because that same freedom often leaves people wandering about confused and purposeless.  I’m about to lay out some ideas that may seem like sweeping generalizations, however, I think if you consider them carefully they will bring a greater clarity and sense of purpose and direction to your work as a web designer / developer.

I am a freelancer, and like many other freelancers I have a fairly regular interaction with other web professionals through Twitter. As…

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…