April 19th 2007 / shared
Back in March I received an e-mail from Smashing Magazine asking for my participation in an upcoming article where they ask five questions to a whole bunch of web designers.
At first I was reluctant, thought it was maybe spam or even a mistake—I don’t consider myself an industry leading designer. After a few e-mail volleys with Smashing Magazine’s own Editor-In-Chief Vitaly Friedman, and assurance that it was not a mistake, I was willing to give it a go.
I answered the five questions and sent the e-mail and had not heard anything back.
Today, David pointed out to me, via IM, that the article was up.
So without further hyping of something that I was only a very small part of, please enjoy the article; 35 Designers x 5 Questions over at Smashing Magazine.
And my sincere thanks goes out to the team at Smashing Magazine for seeing something in my work that I myself have yet to realize, it’s appreciated.
April 18th 2007 / taught
I’ve been working with WordPress off and on for the past year and one thing that really bothers me—there are others, but for today just this one—is the fact that the previous and next page links that appear on the index, archive and search results pages still display even if there are no other pages to be navigated.
This would not normally be a problem, unless you want to wrap the links with some css styling. Out of the box with Kubrick the links don’t show, but if you put any exterior css styling on them it will still show even when the actual previous or next links don’t.
April 16th 2007 / shared
Hello and welcome to the new and permanent home for The Artistic Outlaw a creative pro blog. If you’ve read TAO before over at Onelotus, then there may not be anything super new yet, but rest assured I’ve got some great articles in the works and have plans to keep this blog updated regularly. If this is your first experience with the Artistic Outlaw, then everything is new!!
I broke the blog off from the Onelotus main site so that I could have more room to stretch out and really get serious about blogging about my work and industry, without being tied to a specific style or tone.
I decided to use WordPress for this version of TAO, for several reasons several of which have to do with onepanel not being completed.
Search, Tags and Trackbacks being the main missing pieces. All of which onepanel will have once released.
Plus, this will give me a damn good reason to write a WP convertor straight out of the gate.
The only downside to switching to WordPress is I’ve lost the previous comments on the existing articles, not a huge deal we’ll just pretend they’re all new discussions.
All in all, I hope to see new and old faces alike around.
Thanks for visiting, here’s to a new beginning for the Artistic Outlaw, don’t forget to spread the word.
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I’ve been working in the web development industry for five years now. For five years I’ve been able to sustain a specific lifestyle, working solo. Working in an industry I both love and admire. I’ve seen designers, programmers, ideas, businesses and so on, come and go, come again then leave once more. I’ve heard just about every conceivable pitch for projects from one page brochures to one-hundred page social networks. I’ve been offered partnerships, equity, free hosting and heard promises of more work to come. Basically I’ve heard it all.
There is one thing I do above all else that keeps my business running and my mind clear. Keeps me riding the karmic bicycle in the right direction if you will.
That thing. That one, simple thing is; Respect.
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