Karen Blundell

Tonight at 8pm people across Canada and around the world are turning off their lights to build awareness on climate change and energy conservation.
I won’t be participating because we are being lied to by governments and environmental lobbyists, on so many levels.

Energy is free..there is no shortage of it. Anyone who tells you differently […]

After 10 years of designing web sites, I’ve definitely changed the way I evaluate a website. Being a member of various open source design sites such as opendesigns.org, OpenWebDesign.org, and OSWD, I’ve gotten to know a whole slew of talented designers and together we are creating designs which focus on web standards, accessibility, and simple […]

Big Brother is not only watching you - now he’s barking orders too. Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.
The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late-night brawls - to send out a verbal warning: […]

You don’t have to spend big money to create really good graphics for your web pages. In fact you don’t have to pay a dime if you use the GIMP. It’s freely distributed and can be used for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.
I love all the great filters and scripts included with the […]

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 […]