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Front-End Developer / CSS Craftsman Shout-out!
Blueprint Design Studio seeks passionate Front-End Developer / CSS Craftsman!
We are looking for a forward thinking Front-end developer with amazing HTML/xHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP skills. Experience with jQuery and WordPress a plus.
We pride ourselves on:
Integrating the design and development process to create high quality web sites and applications
Adhering to industry ... Read More »
Graphic / User Interface (UI/UX) Designer Call out!
Blueprint Design Studio seeks passionate Creative Graphic / User Interface Designer
We are looking for a forward-thinking Creative Graphics / User Interface designer with amazing sense & skill in the visual arts & experience. Key skills in web design, web layout, UX, UI, Branding, and of course crazy Photoshop chops is ... Read More »
Shortening Your Own URL’s
With the widespread adoption of Twitter, has come the need for short URL's. Unfortunately, the providers of those short URL's are often not terribly financially stable. Recently, tr.im was in the news for going under, and then being miraculously saved shortly afterward. There was a lot of outcry, because people ... Read More »
What’s the Plan? A Guide to Effective Website Navigation
Co-author, Rebecca Dirkse
Are you the type of person who likes to skip brainstorming and outlining and simply jump into your project or writing? That process of working can be a real headache if there is a lot of content to discuss and organize. The same is true for designing websites. ... Read More »
Photoshop Brushes Worth Checking Out
Below is a list of some of our recently used photoshop brushes. We've filtered through hundreds of photoshop brushes for multi purpose use. Typically these brushes are just a starting point for us. When working with them we modify shapes, sizes, colors and sometimes the brush it self. The brushes work great ... Read More »
Internet Explorer 6 support discontinued
Here at Blueprint can pretty much agree that ie6 has caused nothing but problems for everyone. Roughly 1 year has past since we discontinued support of the cursed internet browser in our web design studio. All I have to say is check this out, it explains everything.
Site Support
All of Norway is ... Read More »
Design and App Links for Sunday 3/22
11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers - Great list giving you a free alternative with a comparison to its pay for counterpart.
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers - Small list of useful programs.
27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers
30 Essential Free Portable ... Read More »
Top Website Designers & Developer Tools
We noticed lately an explosion of available online and local software tools to assist with just about anything. Below are some sites recommend to all designers and developers from beginners to professionals. Everybody has their own preferred workflow from the beginnings of a design to the end. Our web design companies office is split 50/50 with both Mac and PC ... Read More »
10 web design company marketing strategies
As web design companies get more and more aggressive with their marketing strategies we see a repetitive cycle of methods. Listed here is some of the many ways of gaining more business and exposure for your web design company. Please feel free to add your own methods or success/failure stories in the comments.
1. Billboards - ... Read More »
Web-safe fonts or fonts common to Mac & Windows
Many of our clients request fonts for their web site that just simply will not show up on the majority of computers due to the viewers computer simply not having the font loaded. Below is a list of "web-safe" fonts that will insure your site to be viewable and appear consistently with ... Read More »
Why web design & development doesn’t cost $399
Web design in this day and age can be confusing. Who's good? Who's bad? How do I know? What's the difference between going to a web design studio and going to someone that posted an ad on craigslist for $399? Well we will explain some very important facts to let ... Read More »
Happy New Year 2009!
Here at Blueprint Design Studio we would like to thank all of our clients from this year and wishing them and our web sites visitors a safe and happy new years.
Keep check our blog for great new things to come in '09.
Here's some things to look for....
twitter
tutorials
wp plugins
themes
and much more.
Want ... Read More »
Blueprintds.com feat. on Welovewp.com
We recently redesigned our web site and we were just picked to be featured in welovewp.com gallery (if you don't know, see below).
Our listing on we love WP here.
"We love WP is a niche gallery specifically showcasing WordPress powered sites.
We Love WP has been around for quite a while now and ... Read More »
All New Blueprintds.com
Our new web site for 2009 has been launched. Powered by Wordpress (our preferred CMS), the website has been redesigned and rebranded in collaboration with Brian @ Rzen.net.
Our latest projects will be displayed via our header on the front page follow by a more comprehensive information on all of our work located ... Read More »
WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin
We often develop sites that include static flash galleries, headers, menus, and intros. It's often difficult, then, to explain which parts of the site can be changed within WordPress, and which are hard-coded. This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress ... Read More »
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies Light & Fireworks Show
Makes me think of a Kayne West concert. An awesome display of Lights and Fireworks non the less. The olympics begin tonight on NBC.
The photographs are pretty amazing.
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Web Design at University of Chicago
I went to the University of Chicago this weekend and checked out some video art, 'Adaptation' at the Smart Museum. It's a great show of videos that make radical adaptations of familiar texts. The videos are simultaneously engaging and challenging, and have humor. Guy Ben-Ner, for example, turned his kitchen ... Read More »
Get Free WordPress Themes
Ian is holding a competition at his new ThemeShaper blog: What should the next WordPress Default theme be? It's a pretty easy contest to enter, all you have to do is leave a comment, with your answer to that question. A good answer could net you free themes ... Read More »
Flash Animation for Video
I like to see the infiltration of the Flash vector aesthetic offline into video. See this Beck video by Mumbleboy and this Knife video (I'm not sure if it was made with Flash, but it could have been).
Here are a couple videos Jenny Schmid and I made using Flash (she ... Read More »
Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins
For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of ... Read More »
Organizing Pages in WordPress
WordPress can be a very straightforward CMS for many types of websites. Our website, like most of our clients' sites, runs on WordPress exclusively. Writing and editing static content is pretty easy, but organizing your static content is a little less obvious. There are two parts to ... Read More »
Upgrading WordPress the Easy Way
WordPress 2.5 is set to be released on March 10th. I don't recommend running out and upgrading right away, since there are no security flaws (yet) in 2.3.3. It is important, however, to keep your WordPress installation up to date. The good news is, most hosts provide ... Read More »
Formatting Your Content
The problem with writing for the internet is that while you have plenty of experience in your field, most of the people reading your website are only planning on spending a few minutes at best reading it. To get your point across, it's important to make your post easy ... Read More »
Sysco Show Tomorrow!!!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, we will have a booth at the 2008 "Discover Your Treasure" Sysco Food Show. We will be also premiering our new Restaurant Section of our web site featuring our new restaurant pricing packages, restaurant menu portfolios, menu design portfolio, and our before and after section. Also added is a section ... Read More »
Dot Com BOOM v2
The lastest signs of the next dot com bubble growing is Amazon.com is offering web services to developers for direct access to their technology platform. The suite of web services is meant to enable and enhance your applications.
Services include:
facebook applications
billing and account management services
easier database solutions
You can browsr the Solutions ... Read More »
How to design a really bad web site.
We always see tutorials online of webmasters giving people advise on "great" or "fabulous" web design. Well I believe the web is missing a good bad web design tutorial so here it goes.
Step 1 - Pick some cool photos online. Use a photo source like Google Images. Make sure the ... Read More »
The Future of Premium WordPress Themes
Ian Stewart, who was one of the runners up in the Sandbox Designs Competition, has started up a new blog called Theme Shaper. He has a post up with predictions about the future development of WordPress themes, including a comment from myself. Ultimately, design depends on context, so ... Read More »
Design Leftovers
I like when what gets thrown together unwittingly on the sides ends up just as good as the intended design. Here's what was in my Illustrator scratch area recently. You can see the concept logos for the project here.
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Flashbelt
I love checking out the annual Flashbelt conference speakers' amazing work. This Flash conference was created by an awesome guy and musician, Dave Schroeder, whose company Pilotvibe makes music for the web.
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America’s Beauty Show
This weekend we will be attending America's Beauty Show. One of our newest clients hairstylist4me.com will be premiering their new web site during the show. The site puts you in touch with hairstylists and salon professionals nationwide. Also premiering at the show is the web site of the One Coat ... Read More »
