A few days ago, I featured A Baker’s Dozen Online Portfolio Services for the starving artists among you who wanted to get your portfolios off the ground. Today, I am showcasing some beautiful photography web sites, some self-hosted, others using an online, web-based service. Each is beautiful in its own way. Enjoy. Alberto Oviedo Bottle [...]

The American Bar Association recently unveiled its shiny new web site. They even changed domains from abanet.org to americanbar.org. The redesign was a year in the making and long overdue. The old site, while functional and familiar, likely had been added to and cobbled together and was the Internet equivalent of the Clampett’s old pickup [...]

I belong to several web design groups on the net and one of the biggest questions from newcomers is, How Do I Create a Portfolio? They are wise to understand the portfolio of a creative or photographer is their ticket to landing jobs and building their reputation. What you put in your portfolio is, of [...]

I’m a firm believer in knowing where that link is going to take me before I click on it. That’s why I like to use document icons to indicate what kind of document is behind a download link. For client sites, it’s a matter of creating a paragraph style that inserts an icon when that [...]