Design - Upstart Blogger

Feb 15 08

Size matters very much in blog design. There’s a constant battle between having enough space on the page and making sure all your readers can access your content.
It’s the age old browser width conundrum. Do you design for a minimum width of 800 pixels, 1024 pixels, 1280 pixels, or do you go liquid? […]

Size matters

Jan 21 08

Ashley Morgan_Design11 Comments

This is only a quick 10 minute sketch I’ve knocked up in Photoshop but it brought a smile to my face. I wanted to keep the text only feel of the current design whilst injecting some interplay between the words. Hopefully the fonts, Dali and Gotham Ultra, reflect the meaning of the words and create […]

Quick Upstart Blogger Logo Sketch

Jan 09 08

Ashley Morgan_Blogging Design8 Comments

This is a post for all of the designers who read this blog, and for anyone else who has an eye for design. Upstart Blogger needs a new logo. Something simple and clean that would look good in different situations both on screen and in print. The logo will be used on this blog and […]

Design a new logo for Upstart Blogger and get a one year PR6 link to your blog

Dec 17 07

Ashley Morgan_Design6 Comments

One of the biggest mistakes that new blog owners make when purchasing an established net property is to hastily change an already working design. The urge to arrive in a blaze of glory with an all bells and whistle design is something that can be seen all too often in the blogosphere.
Upstart Blogger already […]

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

Nov 23 07

Antonio_Design1 Comment

Being a graphic designer I’ve always appreciated and paid attention to the small details in a design. Things like the pixel distance between a headline and a body of copy. I have always spent the extra time making sure those small details were always consistent and made sense. For many years I would position elements […]

Grids are Good for the Soul

May 24 07

Robert Ellis_Design1 Comment

I never thought I would write a blog post about porn. My interest in the porn business started with Good Magazine’s video report on Internet Porn: The Lucrative Business of Online Sex (honest; before that I wasn’t interested in it as a business).
According to the report, 12% of all websites—and 25% of all search […]

What I Learned About Blogging From Surfing Porn (SFW)

May 21 07

Robert Ellis_Design15 Comments

If you’re a Mac user, you probably already own a copy of iLife. If you’re like me, you probably gave iWeb a spin when it first came out, played with it for a few minutes, and forgot about it. I’m not sure what prompted me to fire it up again, but I’ve discovered that, while […]

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