Tutorial / How-tos
Great Designers <del>Steal</del> Practice
April 15, 2009
Last week, Cameron Moll posted Good Musicians Copy. It was a follow-up to a post he made several years ago, Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal. In that article, Cameron was: “…attempting to describe the idea of becoming a better designer by dissecting, analyzing, and ‘copying’ the works of other designers.” In his follow-up article, […]
Adventures in sIFR
July 8, 2008
I enjoy the challenge of learning how to do new things. Working with the Web is a great fit because there are always things to learn. Over the past year, I have tried to incorporate something new into every Web design project that I do. I am currently working on a new design for Campus Crusade’s […]
Licensing music for podcast intros
May 19, 2008
Brian Christiansen wrote about the music he uses for the UIE podcasts. Brian mentioned that he has licensed the music through ASCAP. I checked their Web site and there is information about getting a license to use music for podcast intros, etc. The minimum license fee is $288 annually and then the balance is determined […]
Design is in the Details
May 2, 2008
Here are some memorable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Webmaster Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I listened to this talk over my Christmas vacation. I listened to it again this morning. I had immediately applied several of the things they talked about […]
Setting up a Podcast, Take 2
April 26, 2007
Over a year and a half ago, I did a post on setting up a podcast. Essentially I just shared what I had learned in the process of setting one up myself. I had found out that it is not very complicated. Today I got a phone call from someone asking me this question. Since […]
Setting Up a Podcast
September 1, 2005
May 2007: See updated tutorial on setting up a podcast I successfully set up a podcast today. Here are the steps involved: I downloaded a freeware recording program called “Audacity” I also downloaded from their website a plugin to convert audio to mp3 format which is what is used in podcasting. There are instructions on how […]