Hold Fast Creative. The design portfolio & journal of Denver based designer Derek Balmer
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Welcome to hell
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!
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
It’s Summertime and the livin’ is NOT easy
Support Open Source. Buy a Shirt!
Get your geek on with this awesome shirt from XFORWARD.com
365 Icons
Here’s to 365 days of 16px X 16px crap from my mobile!
SEO Rapper - Design Coding
This is rad!
Jumping on the Mac train
Web 2.0 Steez
Yayhooray gives corporate america a facelift, Web2.0 style!
Denver Arenacross
CarType
An interesting new site from the fellows behind T26
Effective Web Design
Great article from Smashing Magazine
PostMaster for WordPress
WordPress posts via email, now with image and video attachments courtesy of Brett Duncavage.
Chocolate Rain
Every time I watch this video, I piss my pants!
Commie Unicorns
Behold, the greatest gift in the history of mankind…
Makin’ Babies
My good friends Michael and Barbara Nelson just had their first child, Jaden Michael Nelson. He was born on Thursday, December 11th at 11:58pm.
Winter commute
Rolled 100k in the T-Hundo
First snow of the season
Boston rocks denver
Mobile Web Design
Go buy this book right now!
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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.