Finally

Hi blog readers. If you haven’t already, click on through to the site. You’ll see some changes, I promise.

So I’ve redesigned, finally. I promised myself I wouldn’t tell a long story of the trials and tribulations of how I came to this design. Just know that I actually started doing some IA work on it about a year ago and then it dropped off the radar for about a year, and picked it back up in February of this year.

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Blog Resuscitation

So I haven’t written a damn thing in 6 months. Why? I don’t have much to offer for an actual legitimate reason, but I do have plenty of excuses. As for the excuse, I would have to go with laziness and not having the “blogging itch”.

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Transition from Visual Design to Interaction Design

Over the past month at Planet Argon, I’ve been taking on more interaction design work. Mostly because there’s a gap to be filled with all the design work on our plate, but also because I said I was willing to take it on. Visual design to interaction design doesn’t seem like a huge transition on the surface (it’s all design right?), but it has really been a challenge.

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RubyURL: Keep it Short (and Sweet)

I’m a few days late announcing this, but Wednesday, Robby launched the new version of RubyURL, the first rails application running on Planet Argon’s new hosting platform, Boxcar.

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Give Me the Real Internet, Not the Mobile Internet

One of the killer features of the iPhone is I’m fully capable to see the internet in its truest form. MobileSafari has absolutely no problem rendering HTML & CSS, as it renders it exactly the same as it would if I were using Safari on OS X.

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Designer/Developer Synergy

Before working at Planet Argon, I’ve never worked for a company that was made up of mostly developers. At the beginning, I wasn’t sure how I would fit in being that my skillset had very little overlap with my newly-acquainted comrades. Not a huge deal considering I’m a designer and I wasn’t necessarily hired to know these things, but I felt it was my duty to at least make an attempt to learn.

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Boxcar

Today, Planet Argon announced a new business hosting plan called Boxcar. If you are looking for hosting for your rails application in the coming weeks, and need a bit more power than what a shared server has to offer, look no further.

Head over to the Boxcar website to sign up for the mailing list and you will be notified as soon as Boxcar launches.

On another note, I believe this is the first of my design work I’ve done since I was hired that has seen the light of day….BOO YA!

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I Took the Web Design Survey...

..And you should too. Why a survey?

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?

So head over to A List Apart and take the Web Design Survey!

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How Do You Organize your Project Files?

As a web professional, freelance or full-time employee, it’s important to keep project files organized on the computer. It needs to be done efficiently for the same reasons one would keep a file cabinet in order—to catalog, to retrieve and find, to archive, except the digital file cabinet is much more flexible when it comes to filing away digital work.

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Job Titles and Their Irrelevance

I am a Designer. I am a Developer. I can plan and create web experiences. I can develop in XHTML and CSS. I am familiar with Javascipt (after reading this book I hope to have more than an a familiarity). I have some SEO experience (although I don’t care to ever capitalize on those skills again). I can create a blog on the Textpattern (ick) and Movable Type (double ick) platform (Coming Soon to this list: Simplelog). I have a little experience designing for print (business cards and letterhead?). I have a little experience in branding. I have a little experience developing in Ruby on Rails.

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