More New Work At We <3

by Andy Gillette on January 5, 2010

We’re just finishing up on a new site for a client of ours.  From our site:

Sarah Ferguson is a fantastic copywriter and a lot of fun to work with.  We wanted a site that would present her work in a way that was engaging, but also relevant.

Go check it out on our portfolio now.

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A New We <3 Project Introduced

by Andy Gillette on December 7, 2009

We unveiled out most recent project over at We <3 the other day.  It’s a really cool little Flickr app that turns a stream into a very slick photoblog with no coding necessary.  You can read the full description, or just skip straight to the demo page.  We hope to have this ready for the world to play with very soon.

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Microblogging Part 2 of 4: David’s Goliath

December 2, 2009

As of this writing, Tumblr reports having close to 2.5 million publishers. That’s roughly 1 million for every year they’ve existed. Not bad for a company founded by a high-school dropout. Some History Tumblr is the brain-child of David Karp, who dropped out of high-school at 15 to pursue his more »

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Microblogging Part 1 of 4: The Overview

November 19, 2009

I love my microblogs.  They’re a lot more fluid than my “real” blog (the one you’re reading), I think.  I’ve said this before, but I think they end up giving a more accurate picture of me because there’s very little forethought in them.  Jason Kottke may have gotten it right: minimal more »

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My Go-To Photoshop Layer Effects For Digital Photos

November 15, 2009

This is more of a tip then a tutorial, I think, but I’ve noticed that most digital photos come off the camera with a few similar shortcomings, at least as far as displaying them on the web is concerned. So these are just the sort of baseline adjustments that I almost always use, no matter what I’m more »

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Quick And Easy Thumbnail Grids For Wordpress

November 12, 2009

Everybody loves a good grid. I’ve had more than one client looking to get a clean grid of thumbnails into Wordpress, so I decided to share with the world one of my favorite methods. First, let’s get the grid.  We’re going to save a lot of time by going to the Variable Grid System.  For our more »

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A New Blog Design: Fun With Textures And Fall Colors

November 11, 2009

I did a quick mock-up this morning of a blog design for a foodie-type blog for a friend of Ashley’s. I used a couple of great free textures that I found, and a color palette inspired by the changing seasons. I have no idea whether this is what she’s looking for at all, but I’m thinking I more »

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Content Is King: or Why I Build (almost) Everything In Wordpress

November 10, 2009

I don’t particularly like ‘content.’ I mean, on the one hand, I love content.  We all do.  It’s what makes a website more than just a CSS file.  But I don’t want to be in the business of creating content for my clients, unless they’ve hired me specifically to write for them, in which case I more »

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Five Fat Fonts For Free

November 7, 2009

You can never have too many big, bold fonts in your library.  Nobody wants to see Helvetica in every design you do.  Check out these five great fonts that are all free to download. download now download now download now download now download more »

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New Work Up At We <3

October 2, 2009

We had a pretty busy couple of months at We Less Than Three.  You should head on over and check out some of the new stuff we put up.  Particularly, a new site we did for my little brother’s oddball performance art: Prrty more »

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