The Most Important Things…

By Rob | Published: May 12, 2010

…are the hardest to say.

I just read this in a quote by Steven King and it made me think a little bit. It made me think back to all the things or situations where I avoided saying something important and meaningful to someone. The things that meant the most to me but I was afraid of someone else’s perception of me. You know those moments where you felt like the situation was immense and way too big for you. You were afraid of the reaction.

Whether it’s simply voicing your opinion or getting your true feelings off your chest, revealing oneself can be a difficult thing to contend with. The thought of rejection and humiliation can be too much for a person to deal with especially in a moment of weakness.

The entire quote:

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

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Keep your iPad, I’ll take an ICD Gemini

By Rob | Published: April 6, 2010

I came across an article by Engadget this morning highlighting and announcing ICD’s Tegra 2-powered Gemini and with all the iPad buzz that’s flying around I had to post a quick write up on this.

Now let me say that I am by no means anti-Mac. I love their products and if I had the chunk of change I would own one of their top of the line Mac Book Pros. However, I do understand Mac’s attractiveness and why it’s so popular. With that understanding I can also see thier faults as well.

To me the iPad missed on a great market with some of it’s short comings. Flash support being the biggest. Sure the refined OS of the iPad is amazing and from what I have read about it, it’s flawless and an experience in itself. This is all typical of an Apple product. Having said that, I still wouldn’t throw my money at one of these things. I understand it’s not necessarily a laptop, netbook or phone but there is still some things it could have capitalized on being such a great concept. Read More »

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Design, Inspiration & Education

By Rob | Published: March 30, 2010

As a web developer and someone that maintains a website, I think it is important to keep your content and designs fresh and updated. You can’t let things get stale. There is a familiarity about your website that readers come to be comfortable with but that isn’t always a good thing. I think people want to be surprised and know that your website is a living and working extension of yourself. I haven’t updated my theme in quite a while so I thought tonight was a good time. I have been playing with some concepts with some other websites and I wanted to see how they worked with mine.

Change Is Good…

In light of spring and the changing of the seasons I’ve put together some minor updates to the theme of my website. Although I wasn’t exactly going for any “look” in particular, I like the metallic feel and the burnt-in oriental flower background in the header. I think it came out really cool. I usually like dark colors as I think it’s a little easier to read off of, but maybe that’s just me. Read More »

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Controlling Image Sizes In WordPress

By Rob | Published: March 25, 2010

When building a Content Management System for a client, one of the main concerns for a designer is image sizes. If your client is going to be uploading and inserting images into their pages and blog posts then you want the integrity of the design to remain intact; while still allowing your client the freedom to post media without the concern of breaking stuff.

No one wants to open their web page only to see that a huge, or mis-managed, image has pushed content off to the side and completely damaged any credibility of the website to its current or potential readers. Typically this isn’t due to a lack of caring by the author. It’s usually an issue of content providers not understanding the complexities of image sizes and resolutions in relation to web design an content authoring. Read More »

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WordPress Client: The Santa Fe VIP

By Rob | Published: March 18, 2010

So as I mentioned in a previous post, I have decided to take on a few side projects. I was recently approached by a friend of mine to build his vision of a website that would highlight Santa Fe’s nightlife and daytime entertainment as well as various “exclusive” businesses. I happily and eagerly took on the project even though I knew was going to be somewhat of a difficult task because of my time constraints. Despite that, I was ready to get back into design work and this was definitely the project to get the ball rolling.

In my friend Victor’s vision, The Santa Fe VIP was set out to be an end-all be-all resource for everything related to Santa Fe and in particular, it’s nightlife. After a little deliberating and getting an understanding for his project I had him focus the scope of his website on nightlife and highlight various businesses in town on a more concentrated scale. Read More »

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