Welcome to graphicpush, a sporadically but faithfully updated blog on a variety of topics affecting creatives, including management issues, business, freelance, design, web development and much more.
Integrating Twitter and Textpattern
Posted Sunday March 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
We all know Textpattern is money as a day-to-day content management system. But what happens when you’re posting content to social media networks? Instead of siloing content, integrate them with some dead-simple plugins and a lemon squirt of jQuery.
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Hire People Better Than You 1 Comment
Managers who are trying to maintain the glory from their design days even though they’re long behind them need to just stop. Mental abuse, cheap rhetoric and corporate sabotage is a black path. Hire people smarter, faster and better than you and then get out of their way.
Statistics: For What It's Worth No Comments
For fun, here are some stats I compiled about three websites I track: this site you’re reading, a large B2B site, and a large consumer site. They paint an admittedly anecdotal but still encouraging picture of browser versions, Flash, and screen resolution. Don’t write a thesis based on it, but feel free to use the numbers to back up whatever business case you may be pitching to your boss or client.
Apple iPad Advertising: 35% Superlative Garbage 5 Comments
When a company uses prescription-level hyperbole to advertise a product, something stinks. When it comes to the iPad, Apple veered off its usual course of clever, benefits-oriented language into a merry-go-round of obfuscating candy words.
2009 Reading List Recap 1 Comment
A brief dive into the fiction and nonfiction that passed across my nightstand this year. A lot of good stuff in the fiction arena. In terms of web design books, start-to-finish quality is getting harder and harder to find.
Your Design Portfolio Has 10 Mistakes 18 Comments
Almost every designer with a baleful eye toward the economy has a portfolio of their design work locked and loaded. But when you take that book in for interviews, make sure you’re not making really stupid mistakes that drive hiring managers up a wall. I guarantee you’re transgressing on at least half the items in this list.
