If an image can say one hundred words, then a bunch of images should be able to tell a story really well, right? Well… in some cases, yes. But in my case I’m finding a my desire to use a ton of images is muddling my message. As a web designer I think it’s important to pair down your visual information until your left with only what you need to best promote your message. Unfortunately, and all to often, it’s easy to get caught up in how cool something looks before you realize you’ve blown your sites bandwidth on downloading your header graphic.

I dated a girl in college who always used to claim that she would one day rule the world with design. On the whole I think it’s better that she gave that ambition up (or at least I think she did…) but the further down the road I go with designing things myself it becomes [...]

Holy crud! As of today I’m the 6th result on Google if you search “andrew reed”. SEO is a crazy, crazy thing. Especially because i’m not actively working with it for this site. …Maybe I should start though and see if I can make the coveted number one spot!

…Moose. Pomplamoose. In French it means grapefruit. In my native tongue it also means “kick ass music.” Justin from andidrone.com just turned me on to this group from Corte Madera, California and I’m diggin’ ‘em… a lot.

Heather and I just went to see the national tour of Wicked today… for the second time… in 4 days. Yes, it was that friggin’ good, and yes you should see it too. While musical theater is something my wife could tell you much more about than you probably care to know I’m the one that’s singing over this.

What do these two things have to do with one another? At first glance, nothing… Unless of course you’re glancing around the market arcade in Buffalo on a Saturday afternoon before the band goes on stage just down the street. Yeah… I watched Wall-E this past weekend. And yes, I sat right behind Filter before [...]

So today I decided to rip my old install of Wordpress right off the server and updated to the new version. Of course this wipes out EVERYTHING when you do it that way but my last install I messed with enough to make it buggy in spots. SO - new layout, new posts, new work… [...]