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On Our New Website Design

December 5, 2011

If you’re reading this and aren’t using an RSS Feed or other content-repurposing service, you’re looking at V3 of the Paper Leaf Design website. It has been a long time coming – we fell victim to the ol’ shoemaker’s shoes saying – but now we’re live and we’re happy campers. Items to note that may be of interest to you:

we have a new portfolio with a ton of new client work
that new portfolio has a fancy new jQuery sorting capability
we now have pagination from portfolio item to portfolio item
the whole experience has been made more seamless.

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Found Friday Vol 75

December 2, 2011

Ahoy hoy, and welcome to Found Friday Vol 75. This week we have some great finds: a gift guide for tech heads/designers, a great look behind the scenes at Atlassian’s rebrand, an interesting article on BrandStack, a free online course for learning jQuery, and an easy way for you Instagram-loving hipsters to print your photos directly to canvas.

Core77 GiftGuide

I love gift guides that are focused on interesting & well-designed goods. That’s what this one is – check it out!

Behind the Scenes of the Atlassian Logo Redesign

Atlassian, a software company focusing on issue tracking and similar products, underwent a great redesign. Read all about the process in this article. Fascinating stuff for brand nerds like myself.

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December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

November 30, 2011

It’s December! The halls have been decked, the nights silent, etc etc. With those stereotypes comes this (hopefully non-stereotypical) December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper. I was wearing an awesome Christmas-y sweater when I sat down to make this up; that’s where the inspiration for the pattern comes from (if you were interested). Anyway, enough rambling. Download the wallpaper in whatever size you desire below!

Click to download the free December 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper in 2560X1600, 1920X1200, 1680X1050, 1440X900 and 1280X800 pixels.

Designing a Client-Focused WordPress Site

November 22, 2011

This past weekend, we held WordCamp Edmonton. It was the first time it came through our wintry city, and it went off swimmingly! On top of organizing it, I also spoke on a couple of subjects near and dear to my heart. One of these presentations was titled Designing a Client-Focused WordPress Site. Click the image below to view the presentation.

Feedback for the presentation was positive, so I thought it might be worthwhile to share the slides on this here blog. In the presentation below, I cover the following…

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Found Friday Vol 74

November 18, 2011

After a brief hiatus last week, we’re back with Vol 74 of Found Fridays. This week’s web finds include: GridBooks for sketching out your wireframes; the A List Apart Web Design survey; a great plugin that will auto-load plugins when you set up WordPress; a dead-simple way to make HTML5 video & audio work cross-browser; and a secret passageway switch (it was too cool to not share).

GridBooks

Wireframing makes projects more efficient and makes me focus on content & usability. These GridBooks look to be a great tool for sketching out web design wireframes.

A List Apart – Web Design Survey 2011

Every year A List Apart has a survey with the intent to get a good look into the state of professional web design across the globe. If you consider yourself a professional web designer or developer, head on over and fill out the survey!

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