Lightworks was a commercial product based out of England used to edit both film and television. Lucky for us the product has become an open source project and now you can download Lightworks for free. Note that this is one time that being on Windows is and advantage since it is only available for Windows. [ Read More ]
Coloribus If you work in advertising or design you often draw inspiration from others. I was searching for some viral video ads that worked and discovered Coloribus, an archive of advertising from all over the world. Categories include viral, print, design and branding, radio, direct marketing, case studies, outdoor advertising, ambient. The site does offer [ Read More ]
Insights Vancouver Insights is an international company focused on human resource training based on personality profiling. Essentially you define a relationships based on where the people sit on a personality map. Each branch is like a franchise and the Vancouver branch is a very successful and well established Insights facility. How I got the job [ Read More ]
I find myself learning a lot of random information as I work on various projects. I have also taken on more writing for various sites which involves more research. I plan to use this section to post articles about things I’ve recently discovered/learned.
BiologicVet This site was a redesign for SEO reasons. The former site had a very similar look but was a mashup of joomla, wordpress and magento. It used a lot of tables and lacked proper heading and alt tags. I decided to remove joomla which is overkill for this type of site and just use [ Read More ]
4Ever Health Distribution 4Ever Health is a natural supplements distribution company based out of Maple Ridge BC. I built this site to be more vibrant and energetic than the previous site. I like the idea of large footers full of information and was able to employ it here since it provides a strong color block [ Read More ]
www.freaknmuscle.com Freak’n Muscle is a new product line released May 2011 in the US and soon available in Canada (with some formula differences since Canada and USA have different rules about what you can use). The site is build on wordpress and magento. One of the highights was when my initial design had a muscular [ Read More ]
Straight from the inkscape website, Inkscape is: An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is [ Read More ]
Free things could mean things that you would normally pay for but in this care you aren’t but I’m using it more in the context of things you may not know are available for free. In many cases it will be open source software but I may find some deals out there for free stuff [ Read More ]
I find that I surf the web alot. Each time I work on a website I start delving into related sites and often I find at least a couple of sites that are done well and contain some sort of useful information. That’s what this section is for, a place to let people know about [ Read More ]
Insights Vancouver Insights is an international company focused on human resource ...
