Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Design’ Category

Hippo Remote Profile – Totem Movie Player

A few weeks ago I built a media center PC using Ubuntu 10.04, an old PC and some free open source software. I was able to turn the old pc into a powerful media center without spending a cent. Now that I have used the media center for a while I started to look for new [...]

New Buzz Post Static Link

One of the goals for the new blog design and layout was to bridge the gap between Google Buzz and this blog.

Updating My Blog With A New Design And Features

I don’t know how many of you read my blog, but I am slowly updating the design and layout to add features that will make the site more user friendly. So, since I am making the site more “user” friendly I would like to know how you, the user, feel about my blog and what [...]

Free Project Planning Software: Wireframes and Flow Diagrams

Over the past few years that I have been doing freelance work I have come across a handful of tools which allow me to create wireframes,  flow diagrams and general project plans. Most of these tools are free, but tend to give you a limited number of features. April 12th 2010 this has all changed.

How to organize clients files on your computer

Over the years I have learned a lot about setting up a design business and I want to share the way that we organize our clients files.

Treat your website like a magazine

Recently Paul Boag of Boag World aired a show which discussed how designing a web site should be more like designing a poster. Designing a web site like a poster is great and has it’s advantages; flexibility, structure and design but it lacks the one element which is essential in web design, the navigation.

New website design for Eve-Online contest

I don’t get to do much website design lately but here is my most recent design that I finished this morning. Next step is to code this site. Posted via email from Andrew’s posterous

Sharing my inspiration

Over the years I have collected some artwork and websites that I find inspirational and before these items were only on my computer. This was fine for the first 50-100 pieces but now this stock pile of artwork is into the 800+ items and I needed a easier way to search through them. I needed [...]