Archive for August, 2008

Stop it. Just stop.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

WebpagesThatSuck.com has 2008 contenders up for you to view. My goodness. Are people still keyword stuffing, using blink tags, not resizing images from their digital camera and putting red text on blue backgrounds? Yes. Don’t be like that.

Get Abducted by Creativity

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Abduzeedo.com (Abducted by Design) is a blog by Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer. The name is a take on the Portuguese word for abducted – abduzido. Fabio has put together a great resource for design inspiration. If you’re in a slump, check out posts like gutter art. If artists can make a street gutter look awesome, surely you can get back on track with web and graphic design!

Let’s Have Some Laughs

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

If you’re a web developer, check out Small talk with a web designer. Hilarious! I can give a lengthy, technical description of what I do, but usually I have to boil it down to, “I work on computers.”

For tech support folks, you must watch The Website is Down. Warning: this video contains some potty mouth words and slightly naughty configurations of desktop icons. It’s probably best watched at home when you can laugh until your head hurts and scream, “It’s true! It’s so true!”

Generate WordPress Themes in Minutes

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

The WordPress Theme Generator just plain rocks. Customize a WordPress theme with a few clicks, get the code and bring it over to your WordPress blog for further tweaking. Thanks to Christian for sharing something that helps me be lazy in a productive way!