http://athinlayerofbs.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:09:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm writing this while I'm in the middle of a mad dash to get everything ready for the re-launch of my business endeavor Victory Creative. Victory Creative is a web consultancy based in Raleigh, North Carolina where we special in Web and UX Design/Development, Information Architecture and Project Management. So, I ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=61 I've got a couple of upcoming projects on the horizon and I decided to start researching some well known frameworks both the server side and the client side. Most of my programming has been with custom libraries that either I've created or ones created by a client/employer. Up until now, ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=54 I had fun writing a guest blog for my friend Elizabeth of Only Even Prime fame. It's the story of the MI team looking for a real CMS. Take a look. http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=46 Tables, as a part of HTML, have gotten a bum deal over the last few years. Yeah, they were the darling of web design for a long time. Strutting their stuff with the latest and greatest cutting edge sites. Going to all the fancy website parties like Amazon and CNN. ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=39 Starting this week and running for the next few months, I'll be publishing a series of articles that I hope to turn into a book titled Web Design on a Dollar a Day. This passionate little endeavor will be my attempt to give back to the community of web designers ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=23 So for the entire weekend, I've been pondering one simple fact. Something that's been bugging me for a long time and that my girlfriend Katrina and my roommate Elizabeth would find utterly humorous. Something that as I get older, seems to become more a part of my day-to-day life. Ok, the ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=15 It seems to me, these days, that real usable content is taking a back seat to whizbang-widget-this-AJAX-that graphic self-indulgence. I'll be the first one to jump up and down when the subject of good design and solid user experience are on the table. We know, as professionals in the field, ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=4 For the last couple of weeks I've been working on redesigning our company website and we went through the standard process of looking at visual comps, tweaking the design and iterating. One of my challenges was to produce an "academic" design, this was important because we plan on having a ... http://athinlayerofbs.com/?p=7