Karen Blundell

There are defintiely pros and cons for either. I tend to design both styles depending on the needs of my client.
Fixed-width designs tend to give the designer a little more control of the layout. The trouble is some designers are creating fixed widths for 1024 x 768 resolution, completely forgetting that a good percentage of […]

Late last night I was browsing through some online articles to get some ideas. I ran across an article about web designers and the author thought that writing is an important skill a web designer should have.
The author writes:
It’s the designer’s job to think about your site the way a user does, and tell […]

I’ve just created a new page for Poetry Submissions. Thanks to my friend Frits for his submission.
I’ve decided I will create 1 free XHTML web template a week. Perhaps you can make suggestions of the kinds of themes you would like to see me design. Feel free to contact me with your ideas.

In my humble opinion, a good freelance web designer should:

know his or her limitations
determine his or her target market and focus on reaching that market
know and implement current web standards in their work
have a good working knowledge of graphic design, working with color schemes, and other programming languages such as PHP
have a privacy policy on […]

Today, I’m spending the day getting my garden ready and my son is buying me a nice outdoor potted flower arrangement to put on my front porch.
It’s still rather cool here in Ontario so I need to wait another two weeks to plant outdoors. I’m looking forward to those times in my garden because it’s […]