BlueHatDesign – Eugene, Oregon Web Design

Carsonified’s blog, ThinkVitamin.com recently published a great 2-part series called 5 Advan­ced Pho­toshop Tech­ni­ques for Web Desig­ners by Marko Prl­jić. This post covers some sim­ple but inva­lua­ble tech­ni­ques for crea­ting but­tons, navi­ga­tion menus, inset text and a cou­ple of very nice effects. Defi­ni­tely worth the read for anyone who wants to expand their Pho­toshop skills. Marko just follo­wed it up with Part 2.

As an ASP.Net deve­lo­per, my web ser­vers run IIS. Until recently, that has meant that I have been limi­ted to using ASP.Net apps for cus­tom blogs, CMS soft­ware, etc. Now, with the advent of Microsoft’s Web Plat­form Ins­ta­ller, the choi­ces have expan­ded to inc­lude seve­ral PHP/MySql options inc­lu­ding Word­Press. I’ll save dis­cus­sion of the Web Plat­form Ins­ta­ller for another post, but suf­fice to say, it’s won­der­ful to have the option of run­ning something like Word­Press or Dru­pal locally in an IIS server.

I’ve cho­sen to use Word­Press as my blog­ging plat­form. I’ve used Blo­gEn­gine in the past and have a cou­ple of clients using it regu­larly and it really is pretty exce­llent, (more…)

Wel­come to the new BlueHat­De­sign blog.

As you can see above, my name is Jack Whee­ler and I’m a free-lance web desig­ner loca­ted in Eugene, Ore­gon. My skills are weigh­ted toward graphic front-end design, xhtml and css;  howe­ver, I also do quite a bit of ASP.Net pro­gram­ming. I am very pas­sio­nate about web stan­dards and accessibility.

In the blog, I hope to write about current trends and events per­tai­ning to web design and deve­lop­ment as well as some artic­les tar­ge­ted toward web site owners.

This new re-design of the BlueHat­De­sign site will inc­lude a more up-to-date port­fo­lio and a more per­so­nal approach to my work.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!