So now that we are into the holiday season, it might be a good time to remind you all to make sure you plan ahead for the holiday season. Don’t let clients pressure you into working rather than spending time with your family or friends. I know what it is like as I have made this mistake in years past. Everyone wants their projects done before the new year, even if it isn’t reasonable to make such a request.

Get it while it’s hot! I’m happy to announce the first premium podcast jingle available for download, exclusively at Devlounge. The jingle is free for both personal and commercial use, and ready to roll. Instructions included, of course.

For those of us who are term-challenged (like me) or want to pretend like they know what they’re talking about, there is a Graphic Design Glossary that is being hosted by Lauren at Creative Curio.
Something like this is very useful as a reference, but I doubt it’ll help the non-techies. I still roll my [...]

I wrote a little commentary piece today on what I think is really hurting the freelance the design community right now. Feel free to give it a read if you’d like. In other news, I hope everyone that had a four day weekend enjoyed it. Back to reality tomorrow. Hopefully you didn’t go spending all [...]

For those of us who like to run polls on our site, there are a myriad of options. For example, with WordPress there is WP-Polls. But what about for non-WordPress bloggers? Or perhaps a blogger that wants to create a one-time poll and be done with it? That’s where PollDaddy comes [...]

Being a busy designer means that every minute counts. And we all know that firing up a second machine to bug test a project is necessary, right? Wrong! With virtual machines you can run other operating systems on your computer. My new best friend is VMware Fusion, which puts Windows XP a click away, on my Mac OS X workstation.

Big name blogs are teaming up for an award called the Crunchies, after industry leader TechCrunch of course. Other blogs participating includes GigaOM, Venturebeat, and Read/WriteWeb.
The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony for the most compelling startups of the year.
Look for nominations and voting here in the near future, followed by [...]

Prash asked me to drop a quick note about the sale of Mintpages. Most of you long time readers have all but certainly heard me mention Mintpages before as a private forum community for designers and developers. Well, much like myself, Prash is very busy with other things and no longer has the time to [...]

The good folks over at Automattic is planning on adding a Theme Marketplace for designers over at WordPress.com. You’ll be able to sell your themes there, splitting the profit 50/50. While that’s a huge take on Automattic’s side, it’ll let you reach some 1,7m+ blogs which was out of limits before. There are kinks though, [...]

Just thought I’d brighten up everyone’s Sunday night with a little bit of news on my newest project. For my senior project in school, I had to do something related to a small business (because it is what I am doing mine on). I figured creating some kind of paid web service would be my [...]