Hold Fast Creative. The design portfolio & journal of Denver based designer Derek Balmer

Effective Web Design

Great article from Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine put out this great article on effective web design. It’s a boss-ass read with some top-notch examples.
Click here and get your read on.
Yes, I did say “boss-ass”.

PostMaster for WordPress

WordPress posts via email, now with image and video attachments courtesy of Brett Duncavage.

Brettage wrote an alternate script for the WordPress wp-mail.php script. The new and improved version, PostMaster, allows email posts to support image and video attachments. You can check it out here, or you can just use Expression Engine and have your site dialed from the start ; )

Chocolate Rain

Every time I watch this video, I piss my pants!

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Recent Journal Entries

No More Hospitals

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Sucker for a pretty wrapper

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Welcome to hell

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Attack of the One Page websites

I have been pretty busy lately with lots of mind-numbing, data-centric design projects and I have discovered an excellent cure. One page websites!

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I’ll sleep when I’m dead

It’s Summertime and the livin’ is NOT easy

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Support Open Source. Buy a Shirt!

Get your geek on with this awesome shirt from XFORWARD.com

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365 Icons

Here’s to 365 days of 16px X 16px crap from my mobile!

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SEO Rapper - Design Coding

This is rad!

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Jumping on the Mac train

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Web 2.0 Steez

Yayhooray gives corporate america a facelift, Web2.0 style!

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The Other Gigs

-- Check 'em out -- Kick Start Mobile Momentile Relentless Clothing

Friends

-- Check 'em out -- Be Good Not Bad Charley Hine Cristian Whitney Justin Kosman Matt Hessler Prey for the Hunted Th'ink Tank Tattoo Brett Duncavage

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I designed this site on a Mac. Wrote the XHTML and CSS using BBEdit TextMate. I use ExpressionEngine for my CMS because it rocks my face in and I host it all at Dreamhost because they are righteous.

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