Seasons Greetings - Creating Falling Snow in Flash and Actionscript
This year I thought I’d send out a flash-based seasons greetings card to all my clients. Here’s what I put together. It took me about 2 hours one afternoon last week.
Blog
How to Maintain a Consistent Blogging Schedule
One of the difficult parts of maintaining a blog is that it takes a lot of time to put together blog posts everyday. Like anyone, you get busy and won’t always have the time to post something on a daily basis. My first advice would be to not just blog for the sake of it. You can tell when you read a blog if the author is just writing because he or she feels they have to. Once you have a steady blogging schedule in place, if you do find you aren’t able to write any new posts for a couple days or you have a big project coming up so you won’t be able to put your typical effort into your blog, try using future posting in WordPress.
Ugraded to Wordpress 2.3.1
I just upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.3.1 yesterday. I’m happy to report there were no issues and the upgrade was really smooth.
Transferring Net Shift Media’s Blog Posts
Last year when I redesigned the Net Shift Media web site I incorporated a blog into it. However, I decided a couple months after that my goals for the site didn’t quite match what I was doing with the blog, and so plans for this site began. Now that I’ve got this site underway, I’m going to begin transferring all the old blog posts from Net Shift Media to this blog.
A Killer Way To Get Inspired For Blog Content
Sometimes finding things to write about on your blog can be hard. But there’s a lot of ways to overcome writer’s block, just like creative block or designer’s block, but my favorite doesn’t include listening to music, going for a walk or a drive, and it definitely is not to do with television or movies, or surfing the web aimlessly. I find my greatest inspiration for both design and writing from books. Not novels or creative writing either, but books on web development, the business of the web, information architecture, usability and web accessibility.
