David Moulton is a web designer from Lansing, Michigan in the United States. He started to design websites in college in 1998. David studied Design and Communication at Valparaiso University and later graduated in 2002. Ever since then he has held numerous positions from Web Design Consultant, an Instructor, an Associate Director and always a [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tim Potter is a web designer from Belfast, Ireland in the United Kingdom. He has been designing for the past 10 years when he started playing around with FrontPage Express and Paint Shop Pro. Tim studied Interactive Multimedia Design at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Tim currently teaches on a part-time on web [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Michael Ott is a veteran web designer from Perth, Australia who decided to create a pretty interesting blog called “ThatWebGuyBlog.com”. He originally started the site because friends and colleagues had questions about design. He is a Senior Designer with a Perth-based firm and he has been designing sites for the past 11 years by his [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Lisa Bun is a web and graphic designer from Chicago, Illinois in the United States. She technically started designing websites in 2007 but started in graphic design much earlier. Lisa studied at Columbia College of Chicago and earned her Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design in 2008. Lisa has recently [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Grace Smith is a web designer from Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. She currently runs a freelance web design business called “PostScript 5” and her own personal site where she discusses the latest web design trends. She graduated with a degree in Multimedia Design from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Grace owns, manages [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Liam Faulkner and Katherine Boardman are web designers who run Twenty3Design, a small web design company in the United Kingdom. Liam Faulkner studied Multimedia Technology at the University of South Wales while Katherine Boardman has her BSc of Sound from university. They complement each other and have created some amazing web design work because of [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Dave Harrison is a web designer from Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. He started designing websites back in 1997 using Netscape composer and Photoshop 4 and has only continued to strive since then. He studied Business Studies from Napier University in Edinburgh in 1995 but he what he learned about web design he learned [...]
Friday, June 12, 2009
Bert Timmermans is a web designer from the Liège Area in Belgium. He is a self professed “internet fanatic with a passion for development and design” who has been designing sites for the past 5 to 6 years. He is currently studying Communication Multimedia and design at Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg (KHLim) and is graduating in [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Luke Pieczynski is a web designer from Richmond, Virginia in the United States. He keeps updating his design skills in a variety of ways including most recently attending the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco for Adobe Creative Suite 4.0. Luke originally started designing websites after he graduated from college in 2002 and learned [...]
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Dorian Bibbey is a “chinchilla-obsessed graphic artist” and web designer from Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. She’s been designing websites since she was in grade 6 but it wasn’t since she was in her second year of college that she considered becoming a professional. She studied Digital and Interactive Media at the Northern Alberta Institute of [...]
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Todd Stowell is a web designer from Washington, DC who telecommutes to Brooklyn, New York in the United States. He has been designing websites since 2000. Todd studied at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont for his Associates in Science - Computer Networking & PC Support, Bachelors of Science - Computer and Digital Forensics, and Bachelors [...]
Friday, June 5, 2009
Ana Rita Cruz is a web designer from Cardiff, Wales in the United Kingdom. She originally started designing websites about 7 years ago and even though she originally started off in electrical engineering she has since been designing some amazing sites. Ana studied Design in Media at University of Glamorgan and after she began freelancing. [...]
Fri, Jul 3, 2009
SilverThemes just built another great premium Magento theme for your ecommerce store with your customers and future customers in mind. The overall design of the theme is built to allow the user to quickly and accurately find what they are looking for and it does it very well. I had a look through the demo [...]
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
After reviewing the latest release from SilverThemes, I decided it was time to review another company that offers modules for popular and widely used e-commerce platforms like Magento, osCommerce, Volusion and many others. I came across a set of modules being offered by Magic Toolbar. The great thing about the modules being offered by Magic [...]
Sun, Jun 28, 2009
Originally, I talked about SilverThemes, a company designing for the Magento Commerce platform that is producing some interesting themes and add-ons. I recently came across their AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript) Product Popup Module. What this module allows you to do is integrate with your Magento Commerce website and give you the ability to show product popups [...]
Mon, Jun 22, 2009
Recently the new owners of WP Remix released WP Remix 3.0 with some noticeable improvements to their system. Version 3.0 of the WP Remix theme is now available and it includes a number of additions, fixes and revisions that include: All known code errors have been fixed. The “send to editor” function has been fixed. The SEO options [...]
Wed, Jun 17, 2009
There are plenty of resources out there to help you find and bid on web design projects and YourWebJob.com is a very useful resource to help web professionals find jobs. The site is focused on promoting both freelance and full-time positions to web design professionals. Everybody from freelance web designers to web analytics managers can [...]
Thu, Jun 11, 2009
For those of you who don’t know about Woothemes, they are a company focused on delivering premium WordPress themes. One of the latest themes was developed by Bryan Veloso, a highly regarded designer who is currently a creative director at Sidebar Creative and is very skilled who has created a premium WordPress theme called “Suit [...]
Thu, Jun 4, 2009
Great things keep happening with the release of StudioPress’ latest theme, Education 1.0. This theme has been optimized by Joost de Valk (an SEO specialist) and the latest additional to the StudioPress development team. Aside from the traditional offerings from they’ve rolled in two new features with this theme including support for Localization plus their [...]
Wed, May 27, 2009
I’ve introduced a few WordPress Theme companies in the past and I wanted to finally introduce a Magento Theme company and I was lucky enough to find SilverThemes. SilverThemes develops themes and widgets for the Magento ecommerce platform for a wide range of businesses. One of their most Popular Themes Includes… The Mega Store Magento Theme [...]
Tue, May 5, 2009
Even Lisa Irby will tell you that she is not a web designer but that didn’t stop her from creating a website about it. She created her first website back in 1998 and there were not many tutorials online at that time. She has injected her passion for the web into her site and it [...]
Tue, Apr 28, 2009
Recently on SWD, we reviewed another premium WordPress theme from StudioPress called the “Agent WordPress Theme” and recently Gorilla Themes released their Smooth Real Estate WordPress Theme which is comparable to the theme released by StudioPress. The great thing about the Smooth Real Estate WordPress theme is that you can use this theme in [...]
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