October 2006
October 28, 2006
A good friend of mine recently quit his day job and began selling baseball cards on Ebay to pay the bills. He’s done a lot more than just pay the bills, though, as he’s become his own boss and now works about 70% less than he did when he was “employed.” And his income? Oh, maybe quadrupled.
Although he’s only been at it for about four months now, he’s really improved his quality of life substantially — it’s the kind of success that makes you half-jealous but also inspires you to go out and do something similar for yourself.
But despite his initial success, my buddy realizes that he can accomplish more. Problem is, he’s not quite sure how to go about it.
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October 13, 2006
By now, all of you are probably familiar with the idea of the Google sandbox. The theory behind it is easy to understand, but how many times have you seen real world examples of it illustrated on the Web?
Over the last month or so, it has become clear that Pearsonified has crept out of the sandbox and moved into the utopia that is the “land of the trusted domains.” The results have been, in my opinion, nothing short of remarkable.
Because I think an in-depth look at the effects of emerging from the sandbox will interest many of you out there, I decided to conduct a simple analysis that illustrates what a stifling obstacle the Google sandbox really is!
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October 11, 2006
If you could choose between a static home page or a dynamic one, which would you take?
Dynamic every time…but wait, doesn’t that require work to pull off?
Not if you use my incredibly simple random header image solution! Oh, and you could use this for more than just header images; I just figure that most folks will want to rotate their headers, since they tend to be the most dominant visual elements.
Are you ready to go random? Let’s do it!
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October 6, 2006
It seems ridiculous to call something that was created in February of 2006 an “old classic,” but here we are.
Just 9 short months ago, an anonymous Joe by the name of Brian Clark contacted me about designing a site for a little side project he had in the works. Now, at the time, all I knew of Brian was that he knew where to place a comma in a sentence, so to put it another way, I liked him already.
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October 2, 2006
Have you ever entered a Zen-like state of productivity? You know, where your thoughts and execution seem to operate in perfect harmony with one another? It’s a place where you are literally thinking less and accomplishing more, and I’m sure that given the choice, most of you would choose to live on that edge rather than simply experience it every once in a while.
In reality, these Zen-like states are not nearly as unpredictable or as unattainable as you might think. In most cases, they occur as natural fallout from a well-constructed creative process. If you want to live on that free-flowing edge, then you must learn how to force your brain through the sequence of triggers that will result in your own cognitive Zen.
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