Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Web’ Category

Is Google Buzz The Next Social Media Power House?

This past Tuesday Google released their anticipated new social media platform called “Google Buzz“.

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

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.

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?”

Sharing my Bookmarks

I use the web everyday as a web developer, usually working at one of my two jobs or posting on twitter. I tend to come across many useful websites which I save for later and I wanted to share them with everyone else. Currently I use Evernote to store all of my bookmarks because it [...]