It’s been about 6 years since the day my Dad sat at a diner in Hawaii with our whole family and told us he had prostate cancer. At the time it was not the worst news because although the cancer was all over his body it had not attached to his bones, so the doctors had told him he could still live for a significant number of years. Just a few months ago, however, the cancer did settle into his bones and…
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As this year comes to an end I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone who reads this a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It has been another amazing 12 months for bkmacdaddy designs, and I can’t thank each of you enough for the role you have played in our success in 2011. Whether you have been a client, referred a client, interacted with me online or offline, or somehow been a part of my life, you have been…
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We wake up in the morning and check our Facebook news feeds, our emails, any new tweets we may have missed overnight, our LinkedIn messages, our Google+ circles and anything else we’ve connected ourselves to in the ever growing online world. Many of us don’t even get out of bed until we’ve done all of this on our phones. It’s become a part of our daily routine, sometimes even before we whisper “Good morning” to our spouse or feed the starving pet…
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It seems that every week I see at least one new article about how to get inspired, get motivated or how to get past a creative block. While I do understand that sometimes these things can happen, especially to freelancers and people working in creative fields, I personally have never experienced it in over 16 years as a freelance web and graphic designer. This simple fact has caused me to question the endless flow of articles that are providing solutions and tips for how…
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Cross-browser testing is one of my least favorite parts of the process of web design. Whenever I reach this step in a project, my anxiety rises to unacceptable levels and my mind starts entertaining thoughts of some type of terrorist activity that brings Microsoft’s Internet Explorer department to the ground in a pile of rubble.
For those who do not know what cross-browser testing is and are therefore wondering why this otherwise peaceful, easy-going guy is thinking of such violent acts, here is a…
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