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Site Redesign: Everything’s Bigger In Texas Edition

May 4, 2009 · 64 comments

It has been almost 2 years since the last time I had a significant redesign of this blog. I figured it was time to start tinkering again. Instead of relying on the same blog theme and code base I have been working with for over 3 years now, I decided to use Chris Pearson’s Thesis WordPress theme as my base. For one, Chris Pearson is also a fellow Georgia Tech alumnus. Second, the Thesis theme [click to continue…]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 8 (Redesign)

March 2, 2009 · 17 comments

The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic designer Justin Ruckman to pump out some mockups for the next iteration of the Skribit website design. Justin was already [click to continue…]

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Review: Iconfactory xScope

February 15, 2009 · 9 comments

I may be rather late to the party but I recently discovered Iconfactory’s xScope last week while graphic designer Justin Ruckman was in town working on the next version of Skribit. I saw him using xScope’s Dimensions tool to painlessly measure distances between on-screen elements. I was hooked from then and started using the xScope trial. In the last week xScope has proved so immensely useful that I had no hesitation paying the full $26.95 to buy it. Let me show you why. [click to continue…]

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Community Design: Points as Motivation

April 17, 2008 · 21 comments

Building a community-driven site? You should consider implementing a points system. Why? I’ll try to show you why in this post, but in a nutshell points systems are an ingenious way of taking something with no tangible value and turning it into a prized virtual currency of sorts. [click to continue…]

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