When I first started developing in Visual Studio I was under the impression that I was going to be without the use of SASS for my projects, and that there wasn’t a way to have it run within the IDE. I was distraught to think that I would have to go back to authoring vanilla […]

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SASS with Compass in Visual Studio

WordPress to Drupal I recently converted my personal website from WordPress to Drupal; WordPress is a rich CMS experience, but it has its limitations and technical deficiencies. When I invested my time in Drupal years ago, I was blown away by the vast amount of development possibilities. The concepts of themes, modules(plugins), users, and Content […]

Responsive web design with Drupal via Omega, Deltas, and Context

I just completed a new website for an amazing organization located here in my hometown of Sarasota, Florida: West Coast Martial Arts Academy(WCMAA). WCMAA has been teaching martial arts in Sarasota, Florida since 1979, they hold the highest standards with a commitment to excellence that is unsurpassed.

RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN KARATE-DO

Plugins don’t usually get me all that excited, but this one definitely does. One of my friends at work just turned me on to this new panel for Adobe Fireworks called “Tables”. This is a big time-saver if you have a lot of designs with table data. You can create tables directly in Adobe Fireworks, […]

ADOBE FIREWORKS TABLES PANEL

I have fallen in LUST with Responsive Web Design, my iPhone and I can’t get enough of websites interfacing our queries while they dress all CSS-SEXY for us. I love the fact that many companies are now catering to my 320px fetish; many of today’s websites are even designed to fit my viewport all the […]

JS IN MY SEXY RESPONSIVE DATA TABLES

The Interweb “as we really know it” began as a small pond of ambitious servers in the 1990′s. Dial-up internet access was cumbersome, it took a lifetime just to load a web page. Now in the 21st century, the Interwebs have become a vast ocean of data. We can surf the seas at the speed […]

RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN AND ADAPTIVE WEB DESIGN

Sometimes a few of the more important web site fundamentals get lost in the launch of a client’s project. These things range anywhere from a browser’s favicon image to the web site’s analytic performance tracking solution. All of the main core deliverables need to be the responsibility of the technology service entity and/or “cousin that […]

CLEANING UP AND CONTROLLING YOUR FACEBOOK LIKE IMAGE

The number one search engine in the world is Google, obviously there is no question of that. The number two search engine may or may not surprise you, but it is YouTube. I know…what a shock that people would rather watch a video than read, but video brings a lot of value to the table […]

GAIN ORGANIC WEB TRAFFIC WITH YOUTUBE AND VIMEO

Building a web site optimized for the iPhone can be really fun and super easy. All one needs to do is load the iPhone CSS via the media type and load 300 DPI images for retina display iPhones… All pretty simple. I wanted to launch my new web site with a mobile version, of course […]

IPHONE HOME

Google analytics makes it easy to track user actions. Google event tracking empowers you to track events that may not result in a page view, but are important user behaviors that will impact and guide your UX design.

GOOGLE EVENT TRACKING — UX STRATEGY

I am a Creative Director, UX/UI Designer, and Front-end Developer with over 17 years of experience defining, designing, and developing strategic solutions.

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