http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress Mostly musings on design Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:19:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new design for my portfolio and a new design for the blog. This has been, unfortunately, too long in coming due to life, work, and a general laziness on my part. I think what finally drove me to finish it up and get the new designs online was a ... http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2008/10/03/updated-design/ I have an interesting design "problem" I'm working on. A client wants a new website. They would like it to become a useful and usable resource. The target audience for this site come from rural or economically-challenged demographics. So bandwidth and old technology constraints are real issues that need to ... http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2008/09/19/bandwidth-and-technology-constraints/ This is more of a "anyone know what might be the problem?" post. I recently tried upgrading to Firefox 3 on my  laptop, a 2006 MacBook Pro. The problem is that I can't start Firefox. It continually crashes. Even in safe-mode. I even tried removing my old Firefox user profiles ... http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/firefox-3-woes/ In the midst of a website redesign project, I sent an email to the client outlining several issues I was currently grappling with in the design and some of my feedback on some of the client's feedback on previous design iterations. This email outlined the problems and suggested solutions and ... http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/communication-between-3-parties/ This last Wednesday my wife and I celebrated a wonderful 3 years of marriage. Looking forward to many more. [caption id="attachment_104" align="aligncenter" width="214" caption="Photo taken on our aniversery"][/caption] http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/3-wonderful-years/