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Designing Headers, Footers, and Sidebars

Headers, footers, and sidebars are one of the first things to consider when putting a website design together. It can be tough deciding which ones to use, and how to use them. There aren’t really “wrong” choices here, but some are better for some things and others. There are three main things that people want [...]

Examing a Blog Makeover

As you can see, this blog recently underwent a facelift. It’s not as drastic as the last time I updated this blog, but I was toying with it, wanted to give it a cleaner look, and ended up with this. I figured it would be an interesting look at the design process to examine the [...]

Shifting Focus

I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately, and I’ve realized that I need to make some changes in the way I’ve been spending my time and energy as of late. When working on websites and such, I’ve realized that I’ve been wearing way to many hats. At varying points, I was trying to [...]

Planning your first web site

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

Why Athens Bar Hopper failed, and why I’m trying again

In this post, I mentioned that I knew their were a lot of flaws with Athens Bar Hopper, mainly that I had no freakin’ clue what I was doing when I started.  So I wanted to take an honest look at what went wrong, what went right, and talk a bit about my plans for [...]

5 Things you Must Remember when Designing: Keeping the User in Mind.

A.K.A. 5 things I wish I knew when I started AthensBarHopper.com