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Handcrafted CSS

July 1st, 2009

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Dan Ceder­holm & Ethan Mar­cotte are team­ing up for the sequel to Bul­let­proof web design: Hand­crafted CSS. I highly respect both of these guys, and really can’t wait to see what they put together.

From the intro:

Seem­ingly non-​obvious details can often sep­a­rate good web design from great web design. You might not appre­ci­ate the qual­ity of a well-​designed web­site until you start using it, look­ing under the hood, putting it through tests, etc.

This is fan­tas­tic advice that I don’t think any web design­ers follow often enough. While Graphic Design­ers gen­er­ally design for a static medium, work­ing on the web is such a fluid set of sce­nar­ios and inter­ac­tions that some­times the little details get over­looked after the design has been approved and the code has been written.

So head over to Amazon and pre order it now!

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Reinforcements!

April 22nd, 2009

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Mr. Downham

When you’re a small design busi­ness, some­times it’s dif­fi­cult to do it all on your own. How­ever, when you’re a small design busi­ness with really tal­ented folks around you, it gets a bit less tricky. With that said, I’d like to announce the first of a few ‘partnerships’ that will help us deliver even higher qual­ity work.

Matt Down­ham is a guy I met at school about 5 years ago now, and is easily one of the most tal­ented design­ers I know. He’s got a back­ground in all sorts of media, from video to print to web and every­thing in between. Matt will be han­dling some of the design projects around here, mainly depend­ing on the size and scope of the projects. As we grow and take on larger clients, it’s impor­tant to have a hand­ful of folks to lean on to ensure we put out the best qual­ity prod­uct. Matt is def­i­nitely one of those people.

You can check out his web­site here, or stay tuned for some blog posts detail­ing projects we are both work­ing on.

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Welcome to 3.0

March 22nd, 2009

Hey there. Wel­come to ver­sion 3.0 of SquareOne’s web­site. I can’t believe this site has only been up a year, and I’m on the 3rd design of it. I feel like this one has more room to grow, so hope­fully I’m not making any dras­tic changes any time soon.

So, after a month or so of trying to come up with a redesign that works as a per­sonal site and a pro­fes­sional one, I think that I’ve come to a good com­pro­mise. The result of Square​OneWeb.com ver­sion 3.0! I’ll be inte­grat­ing this site design into my DanielAndrews.com design as well very soon, so worlds will collide.

Anyway, I wanted some­thing with a bit more color than the older design, which was very tan and green and not much else. I hope that this design will stand out a bit more with­out being over­whelm­ing to vis­i­tors, con­tent wise. I’ve gone to great length to revise and remove redun­dan­cies from the site, and I’m by no means done. A lot of the ser­vices pages are being removed and rewrit­ten, and the client survey is being short­ened by about 200%. Once 3.0 is fully live, this site will be a lean, mean web design­ing mar­ket­ing machine. I wanted to launch last week, but Word­press blew up on me a few days ago, so that put me behind sched­ule. So here we are. For­give the not-so-hot blog setup.

Hope you like the redesign.

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