The Journal of a Freelance Web Designer...

I have finally published a site I had been working on for quite some time and I would like to share with you a bit on how this site was create utilizing WordPress. Kelly, an extremely talented photographer came to me hoping to create a simple yet effective portfolio that would showcase her work for potential customers and friends alike. Her design style was very much in tune with my own, making this project a pleasure to work on.
In our initial meeting we discussed some of the things she was hoping to do. Obviously the focus here was to be [...]

I was hoping to have some new content ready to go and I actually do have quite a few WordPress related posts sitting in Que, however they do need a bit more attention before the can be released. Things have gotten quite a bit busier than expected, but I assure you that waiting just around the corner I have some exciting new work as well as some excellent ideas that I would like to share. Bear with me while I get things under control and feel free to follow me on Twitter for the latest updates as that is about [...]

Quite awhile back I created a separate blog focused on the Waukesha and Milwaukee Wisconsin area in order to provide or “closer to home” information source for web design related topics. I feel that is an important part of my job as a web designer/developer to go beyond providing a solution for the client by educating them as well. It is at times, hard for me to decide where an article might best fit as they are often relevant to anyone interested in various web design/development topics. Having recently noticed an increased interest in the topics of WordPress and blogging [...]

I have been talking a lot about “having a few exciting projects in the works” and “being busy” so I felt that it was time to share a bit and validate my claim. If you have read a bit more about me you will probably know that I also design for and operate a small clothing company that goes by the name of ASONE. Unfortunately it has been sitting on the wayside for quite some time now while I figured out the next step in my career path. Bottom line is that it needed some serious attention and it is [...]

About a month ago I wrote an article on Waukesha Web Designer, regarding some experimentation I had been doing with SEO and I felt that it was time to do a brief follow up to that. Part of my experiment was to gain a better understanding of how important it is to focus and target your keywords when developing an SEO strategy. To my delight I have managed to make quite a bit of headway in the search engines for the particular keywords I had been targeting. If you would like to get a better understanding of what I set [...]