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New Site Launch!

Today I just launched my wife’s site after work­ing on it on and off for months. Isabelle is a very tal­ented artist-​painter and this project has been a labour of love for us The design is min­i­mal­ist and the lay­out is very sparse. I wanted to put the empha­sis on her art­work where it belongs. There’s a small Flash slideshow…

2008, The Year of Freelancing and Twitter

I am a bit late with the 2008 yearly reviews but this one will be shorter than last year’s. As 2008 has been a very big year for me I wanted to blog about it for pos­ter­ity and this post will focus on basi­cally 2 things. I’ll prob­a­bly post more about spe­cific dis­cov­er­ies (soft­ware, sites, etc) later but for now……

Webfocusdesign​.com Version 4 is Online

Earlier this week I finally pub­lished the new ver­sion of my Web design busi­ness site, web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com which I’ve worked at on and off for sev­eral months now. The site finally reflects my cur­rent com­pany brand­ing and sports the same visual iden­tity as my busi­ness card, invoices and other client fac­ing print mate­ri­als. It also finally showcases…

I’m Now a Full Time Freelancer

3 days ago, I started my new career as a full time Web design pro­fes­sional free­lancer… Well, it’s actu­ally not a new career because I’ve been doing it for over 12 years now. But for a while in the mid 90’s, it did play sec­ond fid­dle to music and work­ing a pro­duc­tion job in a screen print­ing com­pany. But as it became clear…

Twitter One Week Later

It’s been a week since I signed up on Twitter now and, in spite of my expec­taions I must say I’m lov­ing it. There are a lot of very help­ful peo­ple there and it makes me feel like I’m more part of the com­mu­nity. As I said before, the expe­ri­ence is made a lot more enjoy­able by using a good Twitter client…