Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Every day, with fresh supplies of morning energy to tackle precious billable work, several new urges attack mercilessly. I blame this year’s SXSWi and having joined the blogosphere for the sudden explosion of some of these… Reading all new blog posts in my Sage bar Checking to see if anybody replied directly to any of [...]
As if somebody had heard our desperate scream for CSS customization on WordPress.com blogs, a CSS Editor plugin has just been released. It allows you to modify the stylesheet of any WP.com theme, and upload any images you want to use with your CSS. Bottom line: You can modify the design of the theme as [...]
Not to discredit and harshly criticize any of the current themes available at WordPress.com, but to tell the truth, several weeks ago Joey and I had the hardest time finding an adequate theme for Joey’s blog. What I mean by “adequate”: 1. Content is easy to read: Colors, font sizes, page width and other design [...]
Although these irresistibly indecent proposals are based on real events, their specific details have been altered, added or left out for dramatic purposes. All characters in this post are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, tyrants, and sweatshops, living or dead is purely coincidental.
Having a boring day? I have a suggestion for ya: Make a digital snow flake. A few nights ago I spent an hour playing and made these 15 pieces. As an experiment, I tried to make a real one by folding a sheet of paper and attempting to cut it… FAILED MISERABLY. With so many [...]
Although there are several fine and elegant applications that provide webmasters with consolidated access statistics for their web sites, I find it impossible to live without my own site logs analysis routine. I have become a shameless voyeur of my sites’ access logs, and I find that this practice is good for business and also [...]
This is one of those days in which I just don’t feel on top of my mountain. Paradoxically, the day started with the happy discovery that Digital Web Magazine published an article that uses one of my designs to illustrate good use of color. Back in November I knew my design would be used, but [...]
One summer day in the early 90s, while my sister and I were vacationing at my parents’ place in Caracas, I was returning home from a morning at the pool. I was preparing to take a shower, and as soon as I had pulled my shirt off, a horrible emergency siren went off. Apparently there [...]
After much time spent as a lurker reading and enjoying other people’s blogs, this is the year in which I’ve finally decided to stick my patita in the pool and begin writing publicly. This is that embarrassing first (well, ok: 11th) post documenting the genesis of this web site, and my first attempt to join [...]
Sunday didn’t feel as juicy and energetic as Saturday. I couldn’t connect with some of the panels, but maybe that had more to do with my physical exhaustion from a serious lack of sleep. However, a few ideas resonated: Respect Your Elder Bloggers After reading about it, I’m sort of curious about Ronni Bennet’s blog, [...]
These are some notes I took while attending SXSW Interactive 2006. I hope this post serves me as reminder of some the thoughts and ideas that energized me during the conference. Traditional Design and New Technology The main point of this discussion was expressed by Mark Boulton: In print design it’s all about aesthetics. You [...]
Web Design is one of my passions and what I do today for a living. I currently work as a freelancer, and absolutely LOVE IT. Anything that I may want to share related to that work will be posted here.
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