In the event you’re interested, I’ve created a website called Traffghetti dedicated to linking the latest, greatest content and hooked it up through Twitter and RSS. There won’t be ads or any kind of promoting on the website because it’s mainly for people that I know. It saves me from sending emails or MSN messages [...]
Rob Brown recently threw me a few questions on Graphic Design and how it’s being affected by the downturn in the economy. Here’s what i had to say.
RB What is your job in the industry?
I work as a Web Developer/Designer for an ad agency in Canada’s capital. I also do freelance.
RB How long [...]
I was contacted by an up and coming Graphic Designer, Luke Cosgrove, to get interviewed about what it is that I do. I thought he asked particularly good questions and it does share quite a bit of background information about me. What a great fit for this blog.
LC Is this what you wanted to [...]
It happens, it happens to everyone. If it hasn’t happened to you, you’re lucky and it may happen soon. And when it does, here are a few tips:
Step Away From the Computer
Do something, anything, just make sure it’s stimulating. If your solution is to watch TV, what if you watched shows that dealt with [...]
A question you should often ask yourself over the course of your life is, believe it or not, entirely relevant to web design, web development, dealing with clients, etc.
Let’s take for example the following situation. The client supplied a photograph for a web design that needs to be enlarged to abnormally large proportions. The upsampled [...]
I apologize for not posting in a while, life has been hectic. That being said, how about a post on getting work done.
We’ve all been in the position, whether it’s at work, in school, where there was just so much work to do, that you had a hard time getting around all of [...]
I logged into my control panel and was surprised to see that I had written 99 posts. Not bad! I figured it would be a great time to recap on a century’s worth of posts and statistics.
Quick Statistics
My first visitor: July 1st 2007
Most visitors from: San Francisco
Most visits in a day: 298 on September 30th [...]
I’m currently looking into why my portfolio site is not ranked above a jeweler’s website for the keywords “patrick burt” on Google. The jeweler’s site is currently ranked as Number 1, and I’m kicking around in 3 or 4 +. Here’s a table comparing both elements:
ELEMENT
OILDRIP.COM (Me)
PATRICKBURT.NET (The Competition)
PageRank
4
2
Keywords In Meta Tags
Yes
Yes
Domain Name Age
5.5 Years
2 [...]
It’s that time of year where we buckle down and write through a list of things we can do in the following year. Here are mine. (The ones that have to do with the blog, anyway.)
I resolve to make efforts to get this blog to five times the current viewership.
I resolve to complete one side [...]
I figure that the holidays are the best time to write articles so you can get to know me more. I’ll start off with my article featuring my very own blogging (and working) environment or, my lieu of zen.
Just a note that items were not rearranged for this photo. That’s as natural as my environment [...]
