Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Web’ Category

Evernote Search Feature Built Into Chrome

Last week Evernote released instructions to add the ability to search your notes using the search bar in Google Chrome.
Now my two favorite tools, Google Chrome and Evernote now work in harmony with one another.
Benefits:

This allows coders to quickly grab code that they use often for a project
To find notes while using only one program [...]

Is Google Buzz The Next Social Media Power House?

This past Tuesday Google released their anticipated new social media platform called “Google Buzz“.
Google Buzz takes the best from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites and brings it directly to you, in your Gmail. You are able to receive Buzz updates in your inbox and then store them away like you would any other [...]

Google Dropping Support for Internet Explorer 6

This past Friday, January 29th, Google announced that they will drop support for Internet Explorer 6(IE6) in two additional Google products; Google Sites and Google Docs.
On Google Docs’ official blog they stated:
“​The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very [...]

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.
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

Pros and Cons of switching to Google Chrome from Firefox

Last month I decided to give Google Chrome a try as my main browser, I wanted to see if the new browser had the tools and options I needed for website development. Since I started using Chrome I came across a list of Google Chrome extensions for website development.

Below you will find the pro’s and [...]

Web developer tools for Google Chrome

It has been nearly a month since I started to use Google Chrome as my main browser, and the more I use it, the more I love it. During this month I have gathered a great list of extensions which I use for website development.
Web Developer Extensions for Google Chrome:

LastPass
IE Tab*
Eye Dropper
Shareaholic for Google Chrome
Speed [...]

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 [...]

Tools to run a business with the cloud

This past year I have been getting busier and the amount of work that I have, has more then doubled. I needed to come up with a solution that would allow me to manage my daily tasks of running a web business and
having to be at multiple places.
Here are some of the problems that I [...]

Free time to Surf the web

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I and many others like myself don’t get to play around and simply surf the web like we want or need. So I asked my self this simple question: “Why Not?”
After giving it a thought for a while I came up with this simple list of reason [...]