June 2, 2006
Every week, I get emails from potential clients who all want to know one thing: How much for a design?
Nine times out of ten, my answer causes them to run for the hills. Scary thing is, based on industry buzz, my prices could actually be considered totally reasonable by comparison. Don’t believe me? Well, today you get the whole scoop - my prices, their prices, and my always-priceless editorial commentary on the subject 
May 16, 2006
What happened to the mutual respect that web professionals are supposed to pay one another? I mean, I know there’s not a formal guild or anything, but seriously - why on earth would anyone want to go out and throw a colleague under a bus without provocation? While I have no sound rebuttal to combat pure insanity, all I can say this morning is this - Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is officially losing it.
May 10, 2006
Welp, it’s official. After months of talking about it (but not actually doing anything - that’s crazy talk!), I’ve finally designed a WordPress theme that has been released for public consumption. Yes, it’s true - you too can have a Chris Pearson design for the low, low cost of…wait for it…nada!
April 12, 2006
Yesterday, Patrick and the team at Text Link Ads quietly unveiled my newest creation. Given that I worked on the site for a solid month, it was extremely nice to finally see the work come together in a finished product. Without a doubt, this was the largest, most diverse site that I’ve worked on, and I’ve got a stylesheet 10 miles long to prove it!
April 8, 2006
How long do people browse your site when they visit? Less that 15 seconds? For me, this was the overwhelming average for the first four months of this site’s existence. What’s worse, typical visitors were only visiting one page of the site, almost never clicking through to an internal page.
These crappy metrics were a major motivation behind the layout of my new design, and now that I’ve got a few weeks’ worth of data, I’m pleased to share some foolproof information that I think will help you make a bigger impact on your visitors.
March 19, 2006
Yesterday afternoon, I was working on a design for a client, and I felt totally sapped of all creativity. Designer’s block, if you will. There I was, sitting in front of my new 23″ Cinema HD display, using the incomprehensibly cool Adobe CS2, and yet I couldn’t come up with anything exciting.
January 19, 2006
Monday marked the launch of the brand spankin’ new WordPress theme I told you about last Friday, and you can check out the first rollout over at Tech.Erati. The basic idea here was to produce a template that could be used across a variety of interrelated sites, creating the look and feel of a magazine when viewed as a whole.
January 13, 2006
Hold your breath, ladies and gentlemen, because I’m on the verge of unveiling one of the coolest WordPress themes in the history of the internets. This theme is going to be customized to fit about 12 sites immediately, and it will be adapted to the different content through simple color palette changes (which affect some graphics, too).