Why You Should Treat Your Clients Like Dirt
Because I want your clients basically. Good customer service in web design seems to be some sort of elusive creature that few people get to see in their lives. You don’t have to put up with slack, unresponsive designers.
Free Open Source Alternative to Word and Office
Open Office is a great FREE alternative to Microsoft Office for those of us on a budget. OpenOffice.org has been around for a while now but I’m just coming back to their solution and I’ve found that they’ve created (possibly long ago?) a much more user friendly Mac version.
Using Gmail as a Spam Filter for your Personal Email Account
Google is huge for a reason, they do things right. Email and spam filtering are just a couple of those things. If your inbox has become inundated with spam, this technique can help…
Microsoft Imposes Bing While Trying to Play Catch-Up With Google
Microsoft has fallen even further out of favor with much of the web design community with their imposition of Bing onto its customers. Microsoft is trying to play catch-up with Google. They’ve already failed in my eyes.
Online Marketing and Advertising During Tough Times
With lean budgets, people want to get more out of their advertising and marketing dollars. What better way to do this than with online advertising and a great web presence.
The Advantages of Small Web Design Shops vs Agencies
Generally, where web design and development are concerned, there seems to be a common view that larger web design firms and agencies can provide much better service than smaller shops and individual web designers. I’m here to dispel that myth.
Analog Graphic Design – The Process
Remember the good old days of x-acto knives, marker comps and rubylith paper? I don’t… These design techniques are something that I only had to experience while I was in college. But starting designs on paper is still the way to go.
Nashville Interactive Has a New Phone Number
Yes, it’s true. The new contact number is 615.521.1890. While some of you will miss the Las Vegas area code calls, I felt this was best. Please feel free to call me to test it out if you’d like.
Internet Explorer and the Get Method.
One issue with IE is that it doesn’t return anything when calling the get method. With some insight from a friend and colleague, I was able to work around IE’s failure to return anything when using the get method by using hidden divs and the load function to create a simple fade transition for images.
Web Design and Country Music
I recently completed a fresh website design for country music star Jason Aldean. Somewhere during the process I realized that I’m much more in tune with the country music scene… All of this caused a bit of introspection…
Kelly Clarkson’s Website Launches
Kelly Clarkson’s new website launched several days ago. You may be thinking, ‘Wow Chris. how much do you love Kelly Clarkson?’. To which I would reply, ‘Enough to design her website if I’m asked to’…
New Web Design Blog Hits Nashville!
And so this is it. pretty disappointing content-wise, I know. I’m working on it. My name is Chris Bradshaw and I’m a web designer / front end guy living in Nashville, Tennessee. I’m currently designing and building websites and implementing this blog.