It has been a crazy and wonderful year for this here fledgling business. I am grateful for all of it! Wishing you and yours, a lovely holiday season.
The Difference Between Web and Graphic Designers
"What is the difference between a web designer and a graphic designer (and a front-end developer)?" is the subtext of a bevy of questions I get asked about my work. Most people seem to think that all graphic designers can code and all web designers can do layout. Most creative titles mean slightly different things …
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small joys.*
{A little Christmas cheer on the mantle.} I love this time of year. Though I know that the rain, grey and cold weather of January and February are right around the corner, October, November and December are really wonderful. The last several months have been some of the busiest of my life, and December will …
Preparing for Your First Meeting with a Designer
So, you want a website, a new business card or a rad logo for your business. You've found a designer, that comes highly recommended and you've scheduled a meeting with said designer. How do you prepare for that first meeting, especially when you've never worked with a designer before? In my experience, most designers are …
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the best pumpkin pie. ever.
I love pumpkin pie. I start thinking about it in September and practically count down the days until Thanksgiving, so that I can eat as much of it as possible. I've made a pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving for the last several and none of them have been quite right. Well, Thanksgiving is more than a …
WordCamp Vancouver 2012
Instead of sleeping in on Saturday (yes, the day after the Technical Web Designer program at BCIT finished), I attended WordCamp Vancouver 2012. WordCamp's talks were on a variety of topics including Search Engine Optimization, Growing Your Business, How to Build a Membership Website with WordPress, BuddyPress, PHP Documentation and a few other topics. I …
start with a cupboard.
When this whole William Morris thing started, I read on Pancakes and French Fries that the best advice to take, when starting this project, was to start with a drawer. Well, that's exactly the advice I took when restarting this project, only it was a cupboard, not a drawer. This weekend, we're having a large …
My New Website
Welcome to my new website! In May of this year, I started the Technical Web Design program at BCIT and what you have before you, is the outcome of five months of blood, sweat and PHP. I'm pretty excited about the next few months. My brand spankin' new education from BCIT coupled with over six …
cleaning house.
{Part of cleaning house: laundry and an improvised door-jam clothesline.} It has been over six weeks since my last blog post. I'm not sure how this accidental hiatus came to be except that life has been unmanageably busy as of late. More than that, life has expanded in ways that left little room in my …
garden update.
My motivation to do any type of William Morris activities the last couple of weeks has been pretty low. Between school, work, a cold (during the summer?) and all the other things that make up life, I haven't been up to much. Today, however, we decided to get outside and weed the garden and clean …
Kate Moore Hermes 