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Website development diagram

By adminPublished: January 30, 2012
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Often I find that companies and large organizations do not comprehend the amount of resources needed to scope, develop and maintain a website, and I haven’t talked about phones, tablets and other devices. I created this simple website development diagram in order to help web managers, agencies, recruiters and whoever needs or wants to develop a website. The website matrix map is split into three devision: Development Content Maintenance Each devision can be split into many sub Read more [...]

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R.Performance UI Design for Remesys

By adminPublished: November 29, 2011
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My latest consulting work was to redesign Remesys’s R.Performance web-based software system. The brief was simple. Update the interface to a modern look and feel. “Remesys’ R.Performance software is a web-based performance and development solution that allows organisations to administer their performance and development review processes.” Read more The previous version was based on a very narrow and “safe” color scheme and user interface layout. In todays tight competition among web-based Read more [...]

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Mounting a GIVI Universal rack on a Vstrom 650

By adminPublished: November 19, 2011

I have been searching the web for some ideas on how to install the GIVI universal rack on a Suzuki DL 650 (V Strom 2006), without drilling new holes and didn’t quite find the best solution at least not ones with step by step photographed instructions. In this post a will show in a simple way how I installed my new GIVI universal rack using the Vstrom existing stock rack holes. PLEASE NOTE! This is my own private blog and not a professional guide. Install the rack at your own risk. (sorry, I Read more [...]

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Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

By adminPublished: November 17, 2011

Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City | by Chris Orwig A video I picked up on one of my favorite learning websites, www.lynda.com. Have fun. View this entire course and more in the lynda.com Online Training Library®. Read more [...]

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What is a front-end developer?

By adminPublished: August 8, 2011
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For many in the web industry the title”Front-End Developer” is well known but for many recruiters, agencies, HR professionals and general public the title is unknown or they simply do no understand what it means. In short, a front-end developer is a person who is responsible for the visual elements on a website such as layouts, elements, content, effects, photo libraries etc. A front-end developer codes in HTML and CSS mostly and can add javascript elements such as tabs, accordions and slideshows. Read more [...]

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Web design and front-end development time distribution

By adminPublished: July 26, 2011
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We all like effects and cleaver user-experience but at what price? User-interface, skins, themes, layouts and all other elements that make a visual communication design work are important each one in it’s own right but we must leverage and balance between all elements to gain a successful project, one that can be managed throughout it’s life-cycle.

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Content is king!

By adminPublished: July 1, 2011
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“content is king!”, it’s a debatable statement but I do believe that content is more important then the technology that presents it. Recently I was searching for an online course about fear of flying as I was about to depart on a long international flight. I found a very unattractive website (www.fearofflyinghelp.com) that is very basic but just after a few minutes of reading I got hooked to it and finished all 5 lessons. This is just one example of a basic website, no fancy images or effects, Read more [...]

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Recent and active websites

By adminPublished: June 27, 2011

Showcase of active and recent projects.

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NYC Photo exhibition

By adminPublished: June 20, 2011

A BIG thank you for all the friends who came to my opening exhibition at Zohara’s Cafe in Bondi. We had a great time and hopefully will join again in my next event.   One winter night in NYC while going back home on the upper west side, heavy snow fell and covered the city. Everything stood still, quite a magnificent experience in a city that doesn’t stop. I rushed up to my apartment, grabbed my Rollei a tripod and a few 3200 ISO roles of film and started taking photos of my “hood”. Read more [...]

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TV commercial Stills

By adminPublished: June 5, 2011

During my employment at Hollard Financial Services I used my professional knowledge of photography to take still shots during our TV commercial shoots. The photos where used for our various publications such as websites, landing pages and print campaigns.

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