Sep
13th
As a full-time freelance developer and web designer, I rarely have time to update a blog. I must be the most mondane individual I know, because I have nothing to post about. A few tricks I can across here and there.. But as you can see by the vast and infinate amount of content on this blog, we are not going anywhere fast. As on the Discovery channel, Byrl Grills will find a much more useful idea for my blog, if he came across it in the vast wilderness of the high Sierras. Unless he saves the MooFlow hack(best-post) for tricking the locals it’s magic, I think he’d us the rest of the content to wipe his ass then fish with the bait.
So we are going to bid-adu, to dwgould.com as a separate blog. Adios amigo.
We will be revamping DWGv7 in the next few months and will be pulling in some of these expansive thoughts and ramblings over to the darkside.
Thanks to the 691 (actual count from analytics!) who stumbled across this corner of the internet. We love you all and will buy you a beer if you find us at our local bar.
Thanks to you, Spammers!, for making my excitement of a comment to one of my posts as ligit hit..
I bid you all a good night and god speed.
DWG
Jan
9th
Here’s the short list for December 2008. Enjoy.
- Wilkintie - What a great ecomm site should look like.
- Sic Apart - Masters.
- Change.gov - Not an endorsement, but what an online campaign this guy has.
- MC3 - Beautiful header work.
- Richardson & Wrench Real Estate - Great look for a real estate site. They all seem to look the same over here.
- What a lovely name - Great idea for a web application, not a bad look either.
- Greenbrier County, WV - Wait, West Virginia? Nice.
- MacAllan Ridge - Oldie, but goodie. As fresh as the first time I saw it.
Please feel free to comment on the above listings. This type of post will be created every month, with the intention to bring the likes and dislikes we have in our creative brains, to our clients. Hopefully the experiment will work, and both our clients an friends will get a sense of our design directions.
Oct
24th
For the past month, well let’s just say last 12 days, I’ve been getting into the habit of bookmarking sites that inspire me. Inspire on various levels; aestics, layout, java script/flash features. The whole gammit.
So here’s the short list for October 2008. I suggest you poke around a little bit, dig up the css files, find out what javascript library are they using, which plug-ins, etc…. There’s some great things going on behind the scenes here and even better things going on in front of the scenes too.
- Carolina Jesus - Nice use of a scrolling plug-in.
- Orange Coat - A beautiful, well organized site. Their 404 generated a lot of buzz
- Housing Works - Great Design.
- Fall for Tennessee - These guys always produce great work for the Back Woods State. If you don’t know, they are Design Sensory
- Lush Pad - Clean, very clean.
Please feel free to comment on the above listings. This type of post will be created every month, with the intention to bring the likes and dislikes we have in our creative brains, to our clients. Hopefully the experiment will work, and both our clients an friends will get a sense of our design directions.
Oct
10th
When we started to build the newest version of our website, we started to play around with the MooFlow plugin for the MooTools JS Library. The biggest thing we found and that we didn’t like about the original file was that there was no room for a transparent background and the autoplay feature was shotty at best. So we modified it to compensate for those two critical parameters. As the design started to take shape we decided to scrap the MooFlow idea. Lucky you! We’ve put it together into a nice demo for you to take home and use on your own. Hey it’s even tested down to IE6, so it’s gotta be good!
Here are some features of this hack:
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Auto Play
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Transparency Support
So have at it, enjoy, if you like it or use it, or even improve on what we did to it, please write a comment below. Thanks for taking the time on our sites.
Sep
29th
We’ve gone and done it again. A new website in just over a year. Why do we do this to ourselves? Simple really, we love what we do. We love to keep focused on the latest web design techniques. We love to show our clients the best of what we do. Simple really. But not really simple.
We would like to introduce to you Version 6, built with the WordPress Blogging Platform. We’ve have loaded our portfolio with great examples of our work. Plus we have a bunch more we have yet to add. You can view the latest from Flickr, while reading about our past and present. Animated techniques were built with the MooTools Javascript Library. Don’t forget to notice the hand-crafted css work through-out the site or the previous versions of our online portfolio, available for the first time on one server!
Please shoot an email our way to let us know if you like DesignWorksGarage Version 6.
Sep
12th
Just as fast as it got started, it all ends. Then comes back again! We’ve just moved into a great new office located in Wilmington, NC. But more exciting then that, is our new site we are launching. No official launch date yet, but soon, very soon. More updates will be posted.
