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Useful vim stuff: css_color.vim

July 30, 2009January 5, 2012

As a vim user and CSS author, I’ve found the css_color.vim syntax file to be pretty handy. It shows hex codes in their actual color. If you use vim and do much CSS, you might like to try it out. css_color.vim in action: hex values are underlayed with the corresponding color.

Posted in CSS, vimTagged color, CSS, syntax, vim

Designing this site, part 2: Values, goals and requirements

July 24, 2009January 5, 2012

A week of hard client work behind me and it’s time to be my own client. And just as my clients would tell you when I badger them with the questions I’ll be asking myself, the first part of good design is not necessarily the fun part. It’s about asking questions, sometimes difficult, but always […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Redesign, WebTagged Design, goals, process, Redesign, requirements

Designing this site: prologue

July 16, 2009January 5, 2012

I don’t blog much. Which is weird, because I have plenty of things I’d love to just get down “on paper”, so to speak. But I’m a designer. I love beautiful things. This blog in its current form doesn’t fall into that category. That makes it less enticing to deal with. Fact is, client work […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Redesign, WebTagged Design, process, webdesign

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