by Gery Teague | Feb 22, 2016 | Technology, Uncategorized
To understand the state of motion graphics on the web and where we’re headed, we should look at the needs, the solutions, and the tools used to create those solutions.We have two basic needs in motion graphics. Motion graphics that can be interacted with and...
by noelhenneman | Feb 15, 2016 | Technology, Wordpress
If you are a WordPress developer, or are maintaining a site where you have to update page templates, one thing you would like to be able to have is a WordPress plugin to list all of the pages that a particular template is linked to.For example, if you need to modify a...
by noelhenneman | Dec 28, 2015 | Web Design, Wordpress
Years ago I set up a personal website using the content management system (CMS) Drupal, in part to evaluate Drupal. While I was happy in general with Drupal, it had some issues. I also have set up many WordPress sites and believe that WordPress is much easier to...
by Hilary Reinmuth | Dec 14, 2015 | Inspiration, Uncategorized
I have recently taken an interest in architecture – it started a year ago during Design Week Portland when I went to a talk, spur of the moment, and happened to be sitting in a small room listening to a guy (Gordon Gill), who had a hand in building the TALLEST...
by Diane Kenedy | Nov 23, 2015 | Technology
Recently, I needed to move many files that had custom metadata from one SharePoint site to a different SharePoint site.I do not have access to the SharePoint server interface, so using PowerShell was not an option.My permissions for each library are Full Control.Some...
by Gery Teague | Nov 9, 2015 | Design, HB Design
Here at HB Design we love beautiful design, we love beautiful engineering, and we love cars, specifically cars that are both beautifully designed and engineered. Entering the parking lot over the years you wouldn’t be surprised to find American muscle like...
by noelhenneman | Nov 4, 2015 | Web Design
At HB Design, web developers are given Photoshop PSD files that were created by Web Designers to code. This blog includes some Photoshop tips to make working with those PSD files easier.Selecting layersDesigns often have many layers, sometimes in nested layer groups. ...
by Leslie Worth | Oct 19, 2015 | Culture, Design, Inspiration, Uncategorized
I saved all of my college design projects. The closet in my old bedroom at my parents’ house is filled with them. And during a recent visit, I found a particularly interesting one.This is the project – A toy, made of paper, with the design dependent on the...
by noelhenneman | Oct 12, 2015 | Technology, Web Design
Just recently we had a client ask how to optimize photos for the web. I have a post describing the steps which you can read (Web Page Load Times and Image Optimization). That post describes the steps: copy, crop, resize, and optimize. The “crop” step...
by noelhenneman | Oct 5, 2015 | Design
I own a couple of classic British cars and spent a Saturday recently at the All British Field Meet in Portland. Below are some examples of British typography from the meet. (click on the thumbnails to view larger images)
