Category: Design

OK, if there’s anyone out there who actually reads this site, please let me know your thoughts on redesigning this site.

First, I’d like to know if you think the site needs a redesign. If you do, comment on what you would like to see in the design (usability features, layout, colors, etc.)

I promise I will review every single item of feedback, and since this site is mostly for you, the reader, I will be weighing your input more heavily than my own this time around.

Daring Fireball Projects: SmartyPants is a really cool plugin for MovableType, the CMS that drives this site. The purpose of this plugin is to convert certain standard ASCII items — straight quotes for instance — into their typographically-correct HTML-encoded equivelents. It also works wonders on double dashes (converting them to proper em dashes), and turns triple dots into true ellipsis — or is that ellipsi…

“I give this plugin a ’10’ on a scale of 1 to 9” said a superfluous banter reader who wishes to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons…).

The relationship between client and service provider can be a rocky one, to say the least. It is typically of the love-hate variety, and that’s on a good day.

Today I read over the survey responses from a new prospect, and was almost giddy: these people (actually, one person in the organization) really have their act together. All the answers were as specific as the questions instructed them to be, and everything was so clearly put that I don’t actually have any questions to send back to them, nothing to clear up. This is an oddity for me. That is why I’m giddy (well, almost ;-)

Good clients are hard to find, and frequently they don’t pay too well, which is the case with this organization — it’s not that they don’t want to pay us lots of money, it’s just that they don’t have a lot to begin with. It’s unfortunate that the clients who cause the most stress and are the most disorganized are also the ones (most of the time) with the biggest wallets.