Yearly Archives: 2008

Design Can Change

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If you are a graphic designer who is also interested in sustainability, visit Design Can Change and take the pledge. Designers actually have more potential to slow environmental degradation than economists, politicians and environmentalists. Their power is catalytic. Alastair Faud-Luke

Intervals updates for invoicing, task comments, and CSV exports

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In the spirit of agile development and good customer service, we launched several Intervals updates today. These updates primarily address requests made by you, our customer. Here is a list of new things you will notice when you log into Intervals. 1. Invoice updates Invoices now have disclaimers (AKA fine print) that can be customized […]

How to Become a Great Web Designer

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The field of web design is occupied by a large and loosely defined collective of freelancers and agencies. We have found our niche in working with a medium that is in a constant state of flux. There are no real steadfast rules, and the web has been used in every way imaginable to communicate messages […]

The Year of the Bicycle?

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Neal Peirce, of the Washington Post Writers Group, ponders whether this is the year of the bicycle. As gas prices rise and our physical health declines, it makes sense that more and more people will opt for their bicycles as an alternative method of transportation. Think about the cumulative effect you could have on your […]

Four Tips for Tracking Your Time Consistently

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Every small business struggles with tracking their time. As a web development shop, we’ve been constantly evolving and improving our time tracking methodologies since we started eight years ago. Here are some tips we have learned along the way. 1. Group your daily tasks by availability and type of work If you know you are […]

Three Lessons on Writing Code, From a Graphic Designer

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When writing code — HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, or whatever — it is important to remember that yourself and others will read and interpret that code again at some point. In addition to being free of syntax errors and bugs, your code needs to be human readable. Here are three fundamental graphic design principals that […]