BlueHatDesign – Eugene, Oregon Web Design

It’s not always easy for free­lan­cers to get good qua­lity, cons­truc­tive cri­ti­cism on a new con­cept.  We can always ask friends and family mem­bers, but we’re not likely to get a cri­ti­que that is based on solid design prac­ti­ces and con­cepts. Asking in online com­mu­ni­ties can often lead to caus­tic, unhelp­ful com­ments.  Con­cept Feed­back is an online app that attempts to bridge that gap. Here’s what they say about their concept:

Desig­ned spe­ci­fi­cally for small and medium busi­ness mar­ke­ters, graphic desig­ners, and web deve­lo­pers, Con­cept Feed­back pro­vi­des a sim­ple tool to get qua­lity feed­back on mar­ke­ting con­cepts. Best of all, it’s 100% FREE!

There is a full review at Fuel Your Creativity.

I’ve just had my second look at Umbraco, an ASP.Net con­tent mana­ge­ment sys­tem (CMS). When I first stum­bled on Umbraco about a year ago, I misun­ders­tood the license agree­ment to mean that in order to use the open source ver­sion of the soft­ware, you were requi­red to put “Powe­red by Umbraco” on the home page of the site.  After a clo­ser look, reveals that this is not true. The only Umbraco bran­ding that you’re stuck with is in the con­trol panel. This works just fine for my pur­pose which is to give my clients a fra­me­work within which they can edit their own con­tent. (more…)

We’ve all been there. You’re star­ting a brand new pro­ject. You’ve out­li­ned the requi­re­ments and lis­ted the fea­tu­res in various ways. You’re sit­ting and sta­ring at a blank docu­ment in Pho­toshop, or a blank page in your sketch­book, and your mind is also com­ple­tely blank.

Crea­tive bur­nout hap­pens to all of us. As a crea­ture of habit, I tend to get into a rou­tine and stick to it. After seve­ral weeks of sit­ting in the same chair (more…)