by noelhenneman | Jan 28, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
There are many lists of the best plugins for taking WordPress from a blogging platform to a full-blown content management system. Which plugins you use will often depend on the theme you have chosen and site-specific needs. But for someone just starting to work with...
by noelhenneman | Jan 21, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
Learning WordPress is becoming more important. By all accounts WordPress is the standard content management system for a very large number of web sites. According to w3tech.com (Dec . 12th 2013) 20.9{a5bdf8d0011d37eacb4818f08a39964e49b498fda098284cc705f141d11fed72}...
by Gail Snow | Jan 14, 2014 | Culture, HB Design
Women around the globe are committed to making their lives, their families, and their communities better. Yet, access to a quality education is still unattainable for an estimated 66 million girls. They live in societies where access to education for a girl is not...
by Leslie Worth | Jan 7, 2014 | Broadside, Our work
2013 ended at HB with some good old-fashioned printing on our Vandercook press! Because of some creative planning and thinking, we successfully printed our holiday cards while juggling fairly heavy end-of-the-year workloads. Last year’s printing experience was very...
by noelhenneman | Dec 17, 2013 | Sustainability, Sustainable Design, Technology, Web Design
Having worked with many different content management systems, ranging from open source to enterprise level systems—and having sat in on countless management meetings—I have discovered that there are myths relating to content management systems. The myths? Content...
by Leslie Worth | Dec 5, 2013 | Culture, Design
I recently attended a web design conference in Austin, TX. While the topics of conversation focused on one general area—web design—the audiences ranged widely. There was a little something for everyone, from user experience designers to front-end programmers to...
by Kiersten Wilbur | Jul 15, 2013 | Inspiration, Social Media
The HB Design blog is going on summer vacation! In the meantime, take a look at the what we are pinning on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/hbdesignpdx Have a great summer!
by Gail Snow | Jun 27, 2013 | Culture, HB Design
The HB Design scholarship has been awarded for 2013 to Liliya Drubetskaya at PNCA. This is the seventh award provided since the scholarship was established in 2007. The scholarship is managed through the Oregon Community Foundation’s Oregon Student Assistance...
by Kiersten Wilbur | May 23, 2013 | Social Media, Web Design
It’s not just the images and graphics that are important in graphic design—the content matters. A lot. Content usually drives the overall design, in addition to images and graphics. Graphic design is used to convey a message—it has intent and purpose. The overall...
by Leslie Worth | May 9, 2013 | Design, Sustainable Design, Technology
I can’t decide what to title this post. I have many feelings about this particular subject, and I’m not sure where I want them to land.The subject is the computer and how it has affected design. There are positive and negative effects, but I think I’ll talk about the...
