by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Between my time working in the WordPress Agency world, creating products, building sites, and working with a F100, it’s been hard to find time to blog. It’s been a busy year, but in a good way. My work in the past year spanned dozens of websites and...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
2015 might the busiest year I have ever experienced. Between work and family sometimes it’s hard to find a balance. This isn’t a top 3 things you can do to be more successful, this is just a reflection and a long overdue blog post for my own place in the...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
I was doing some animation research and came across a Walt Disney quote. The quote took place when Mr. Disney was admonishing an employee on the virtues of giving one’s all. It really awakened me to what I always thought to be true, yet never really able to...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Check out this way neat terminal emulator… Via Github cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight. It uses the Konsole...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Wrote a blog post regarding grids and their historical value on WDS’s blog. There are designers that use grids and some that don’t. I use grids as well as Golden Section to layout pages and design interesting user experiences. This isn’t to say that...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Recently there was a security flaw discovered in bash. It’s called “Shellshock”. I colleague circulated how to fix so I am posting it. This is for folks on a Mac. If you are unsure if you are vulnerable to begin with follow these steps: 1. Open...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Google’s mission is to track us, market us, store our info, and then pretend they do no evil by monetizing it all. I am not sure I buy it, but Tim Cook talks privacy they way most people think privacy now works – it’s kind of a back hand to Google....
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Clean it up with this snippet. Sometimes you need a sidebar to just behave like a sidebar and span the page from top to bottom even if nothing is in the content area. Yes, really. Try this snippet. If doesn’t work or is outdated you didn’t get it here:...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Sometimes you need quick solutions for different WP needs. I am sure you have library full of reusable and codex quality snippets. Came across this which came through in a pinch. If you have a layout that is dependent on copy behaving within a certain word count this...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
TiVo has been a great addition to my family’s entertainment center for about 2 years now. Especially being able to record the all important Daniel Tiger episodes for my 2 year old. Yet, just recently TiVo rolled out “improvements” that make the menu...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
A business is like a jewel with many different facets or sides. Each side is part of the business. There are small sides like HR and very large sides like executive strategy. Yet, it is one jewel. I have a point so just bare with me. As a designer and illustrator I am...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
This is for the non-SEO people and a quick blog post about something that is probably flying beneath the radar of most designers. In case you missed it back in June Yoast explained how blocking access to these files in robots.txt can possibly harm SEO. At the very...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
After listening Greg Rickaby’s Sass talk months ago and using Sass daily I am completely won over. At this point as a late adopter I really wonder why it took so long, but I guess not knowing something in itself can cause a person to not want to learn new...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Below is a group of mac command keys that are useful. (H/T Adobe) Start Help Help key Undo or Redo F1 Cut F2 Copy F3 Paste F4 ShoworHide Brush panel F5 ShoworHide Colorpanel F6 ShoworHide Layers panel F7 ShoworHide Info panel F8 Show or Hide Actions panel Option + F9...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Note: Most designers know about GIMP. This is for the users that do not and need a free image editing tool. First the Differences between GIMP and Photoshop Before posting and sharing an interesting photo to a social media site, some people want to edit their photos...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
In part 1 and 2 I discussed basic client services and then implementing a logo from sketch to illustrator file. The logo was presented to the client and literally the client loved the logo with minor changes. That should be the goal every time. Nail it on the first...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Add this to your web design tool box. This is a must have a for bootstrap web designers. ^ – Match only if the Following is at the Beginning of the Line $ – Match only if the Previous is at the End of the Line ? – Match the Previous 0 or 1 times (makes it optional) ....
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Many people feel the need to stay connected to the grid whether they’re at home or travelling abroad. While some might say that it’s important to put your phone away and enjoy the sights and experiences happening before your eyes, having access to mobile Internet...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
In the first part of this two part post we covered most of what it takes to start the logo design process. But, like with everything it’s not how you start something. It’s how you finish. In this part you will see how I refine what was a small thumb sketch...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Creating a Logo is far from easy. We will look at my process of creating a logo and all the ancillary processes that can make your next logo project an amazing one. This will be a series of blog posts in realtime as the process proceeds through out all the phases of...
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Web Design is many things. It’s fun, it’s business. It’s good and bad. You should know that Web Design is 95% typography. Everything can’t be arial. Font choice like any design element is important and how it’s displayed more so.
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
It is America’s oldest pastime. It’s an amazing sport with tremendous athletes. And baseball is completely like web design. We will be looking at web design through the lens of baseball so we can understand who’s on first and what’s on second....
by Simon Urbina | Design Blog
Creating a url shortener named Webly. The logo is going to be driven by a script I create by hand. More to come.
