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Need a Professional Web Designer? Visit NickMorrisDesigns.com

I have finally completed college for web and graphic design with an Associates, and just recently redesigned my web portfolio from the ground up. If you or someone you know is looking for a great, professional web designer, let me know!.


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The Best Music to Listen to When You’re Working or Designing (Part 1)

Today I’ve gathered several artists/albums/specific songs that I can personally say help me very much when I’m working, be it designing a new website in Photoshop, programming CSS/XHML/PHP, or just browsing the web. Feel free to let us know what you prefer to listening to in the comments as well!

I asked a few of my friends on Twitter what they listen to when designing, and most agreed that Trance is the genre of choice. It used to be the only genre I wanted to listen to when working, but lately I’ve found more artists that can fill the void in the same way with different sounds, such as Explosions in the Sky and Ulrich Schnauss.

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Anatomy of a Website Redesign

Anatomy of a Website Redesign

Posted in Articles, Web Design by Nick on January 26th, 2009

When trying to redesign your website, you may get stuck since there’s so many different ways you could take it. You may also run into the problem of not knowing how you even want it to look. In this article, I’m going to show you every version of my new design, from the first concept, to the final result, and explain what I did and why. This should hopefully help you on your next redesign as well.

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Top Tips for Beginning Web Designers

Top Tips for Beginning Web Designers

Posted in Articles, Web Design by Nick on January 19th, 2009

In this article, I am going to explain some important things that you need to know in order to be a good web designer, from CSS and XHTML code to good design practices and standards. After reading this, my goal is to help you stop designing boring, unmemorable websites and start making ones that really convey the message and make everyone happy.

Having spent over 6 years designing websites that were not what they should have been (granted Web 2.0 hadn’t come yet), I think that I can do a good job of helping people skip the “crap era” of designing and go straight to making good designs, and then improving on that.

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