Web Designer Profile: Khoi Vinh

website: http://www.subtraction.com/
company: Design Director of NY Times
Based out of: NYC
speaks at: An Event Apart
talks about: Web Design
devoted fan of: Movable Type and Mac

His Articles:
The Failures of Success
Pages are the Problem
Are design blogs killing design writing?

Web Designers Box of Tricks

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1)

Cleaning your code

More Importantly, First:
validate your markup

CSS:
CSS Superdouche

Typography

15 tips to choose a good text type
web typography: bottom margins
Basic "old timers" typesetting practices, ch.1
do you "love it"?

I'm not a photographer but I still want to take good pictures

I don't want to invest in expensive equipment but I want my pictures to be professional.
I can't always be available to take pictures outside in the early morning in front of a clean white background with the perfect shading and not have to haul tons of stuff to the location and con someone into being my model. So, I need a list of alternatives.

Cheap and Easy Models
cheap mannequins
yourself
creativity

Inexpensive Light Tents
Best Executed: How to Make A Inexpensive Light Tent
Studio Lighting - Super Simple Light Tent

Cheap Lighting
octopus light stand with white 100w bulbs

The rest of this list will involve spending lots of time on http://www.diyphotography.net

Site Map, sitemap, and many site maps

Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing
"fun" way to create a sitemap: http://www.writemaps.com/
Google Sitemap for Blogspot

conversion rate

101 Easy Ways to use Google Website Optimizer

ROR aka Ruby on Rails

Resources:
Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Myspace Layout

I like tools that enable people to do things themselves (instead of asking me).
You too can edit your own myspace layout.

Hacking a more tasteful myspace (mike industries)

mikeindustries myspace profile

bignoob profile hack 1

bignoob profile hack 2

Starting to create a word press theme

Wordpress - designing without style has a zip file to start with that removes unneeded code so you can start with a fresh pallette

Frameworks to start with

Web Designer Profile: Andy Budd

website: http://www.andybudd.com/
company: Clear: Left
org: SkillSwap
Based out of: UK
conference: d'Construct
book: CSS Mastery
talks about: CSS & Web Standards and Accessibility
devoted fan of: Movable Type and Mac OS X


Has a list of Free Designer Resources and his Favorite Sites

Web Designer Profile: Mark Boulton

website: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/
Based out of: UK
conference: @media
book: Five Simple Steps: Designing for the Web
talks about: css, typography, grids
devoted fan of: expression engine, mt, and apple

His Articles that I've Enjoyed:
Web designer’s guide to print design
One Principle to Design By

Print Design Research

The perfect article for moi:
Web designer’s guide to print design by Mark Boulton

Resources:
Print Design vs. Web Design (Alertbox)


Print Artists:
Ben Hulse Design
Janette Y. Fong has a PDF on typography which is neat
Jealous Kids and Lilly Lin Senior Portfolio
Ben Frank

Inspiration:
Cool business card designs

Visitor's Search Phrases

If you end up on a post, leave a comment with your question and I'll try to help you out.

Search phrases:
translucent divs
"new blogger" list-style bulleted
lotus notes signature jpg pixles
tmv fwa wallpaper

Referring Sites:
blogger.com
digg.com
iheartluxe.com
Shaun Inman's mint

Web Design Wire Frame

Site Point: Wire Frame Your Site
A Designer's Wireframe
Web Site Wireframe

Finding Inspiration On the Internet

I've been adding artists, web designers, and websites that have something that I liked that gave me inspiration. I just noticed that I listed someone twice. It's not hard to do when the list gets as long as it has but it's sign that I've come full circle surfing through the same repeat content. I'm going to visit my list and take time on each site and document what I like. Some of these people may have already redesigned by now.

http://www.iheartluxe.com/
The ornate stuff is cute. I like it when it's used for woman's fashion sites.

http://jeremiahshoaf.com/

I've been visiting this site since 2003 and watching it transform. It's one of the first portfolio sites I stumbled upon while in school. I think I just have a personal interest in seeing a portfolio site change as time goes on. Let's see what wayback machine has to offer us...

Before I saw his portfolio (2002):


Oct 2003 when I first saw his portfolio:

Now:

http://mercurycloud.com/

This reminds me of vintage fabrics.

I like multiple things about this:

• white circular diagram


• layering transparent boxes over texture over picture without overkill and decreasing readability


• white text with small-caps and orange-red background on orange on yellow-orange is very, very powerful
  

http://tonyyoo.com/v2/

I liked the folders either the colors or to use as tabs on something.

Shoulda documented these:

If I only had some screen shots to prevent these problems....

I don't know why I bookmarked these:

http://www.5nak.com/

http://www.cabanadigital.com/en/about/

http://lukestevensdesign.com/

http://www.kindnessandhumility.com/

These won't even load:

http://www.shopspicebox.com

http://www.svenigson.com/ (This is the person I listed twice.)

dugged :) !!!!

Blog Optimization

Content is King:
What did blogging teach you in 2007?

Usability Optimization:
20 Usability Tips for Your Blog

SEO:
Making Your WordPress Blog Search-Engine Friendly
Download the XHTML Sitemap Generator Template for WordPress
google sitemap for blogspot
http://www.copyblogger.com/
5 Reasons I Don’t Read Your Blog and How to Change That
User Generated Content (USG) is Hot - Find Out Why, and How to Make it Work for You.

I'm still new here

I am constantly challanged because I spend too much time free time off the computer and do not enjoy socializing via the computer.
05/23/07 - I had to look up what "IMO" was.

You build their site and they give you traffic to your site

istalker is an organizer
shopalize - your purchases

Sketch as part of the web Design process

d.Construct take it to a whole new level