Interview with Saul Colt

In this interview I speak with Saul Colt about the Freshbooks redesign, customers and start a web service. Saul has been an advocate for Freshbooks for some time. He has helped develop their brand and community over the years with great success.

I hope you enjoy this interview and gain a new prospective on working with customers, building new features and finding your passion. Saul is a great person and is super enthusiastic about Freshbooks. I use Freshbooks personally for my own invoicing and I was not paid to interview Saul.

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Interview with Ari Stiles

In this interview I speak with Ari Stiles about the online conferences at Environments For Humans and how it all started. Ari has been in the web community for some time and has worked with SXSW and helped build In Control. Both Ari and Christopher Schmitt have truly uncovered something great with E4H.

Ari is a great person and friend. She is very active in the web community and continues to reach out and bring the webs best and their knowledge to everyone though the conferences. I really hope you enjoy my chat with Ari and get a closer look behind the curtain. Thanks Ari!

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Interview with Paul Boag

In this video I speak with Paul Boag about the Boagworld podcast and how it relates to his success. Paul has hosted the award winning Boagworld podcast for many years. He is an adviser, partner at Headscape, professional speaker and author of the “Website Owner Manual”.

In this interview Paul dives into his path as a professional and how he came to podcasting. I highly respect Paul. Through his podcast I found my start in web design. I hope you enjoy this interview. Thanks Paul!

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My list of what makes a CMS

This is a personal list of items that make a great content management system from a management, design and development perspective. Flexibility, stability, access, development process and management process being key.

Here is the list of advanced features I would put in a system. This doesn’t include the basics as it is a personal list of items for me to expand on later. You can come back for more. I do plan to make my own Open Source CMS one day but not until I have had what I deem enough experience. Three years from now maybe.

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24 Ways is here again in 2011

Its that time again. The advent calendar of web design is pumping out 24 more post until the day of Christmas. 24 Ways. This is one of the few blogs I look forward to each year.

24 Ways is a blog for web designers and developers published at the time of Christmas. Each day until the 25th of December an expert in the web community blogs about current and influential topics. These range from design to business development.

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Entering the SitePoint Podcast

Today I’m happy to announce that the SitePoint Podcast has taken me aboard. Only a few weeks ago my friend Patrick O’Keefe contacted me while I was in Florida about joining the show. Needless to say I accepted.

It has been a true pleasure to join the crew. It has already been an experience I will never forget. These guys are great.

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Reasons not to blog today

Sometimes you just don’t have the energy to do the things you have committed to doing. For one reason or another you want to quit. Take a day off. Go to bed. Today I feel this way. I have a ton of reason too:

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The day I denied Batman

Watching reruns of the 1960s Batman defined my early childhood. I lived on the edge of our family sofa. My eyes transfixed on Adam West, the face of my hero, the Batman.

I was no couch potato, I as a fan. Fully garbed with my plastic mask and hand made cape.

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Interview With Rogie King

In this interview I speak with Rogie King about design and the process of getting for start to finish. Along the way we take a detour and juggle the ideas behind being genuine and enthusiastic. Rogie is the brain behind Komodo Media and a skilled designer in the web community.

In this episode I take a step back and let technology be technology. I hope you enjoy our conversation and gain as much as I have from it. Here is a big thanks to Rogie. Enjoy everyone!

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Website: Sprite Cow

Recently I found out about a really nice CSS sprite tool on CSS Tricks. The tool is called Sprite Cow and I cant wait to use it. I have tried the demo and I can’t think of a better way to generate the CSS for complicated sprites.

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