Archive for the ‘portfolio’ Category

Is your web design company legitimate?

Dec 11, 2012 articles, seo, web design, wordpress

Is the company or individual you are about to hire a legitimate web design or development firm or person? Or are they just template builders that charge excess fees for changing out content on a template based design. As an open source content management system, WordPress has become one of the most popular FREE CMS […]

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Launched Craig’s New WordPress Design

Oct 06, 2012 portfolio, web design, wordpress

Welcome to the new site It’s been a few years since I did a new design on my website. And I finally found some time to get in a new design on my current WordPress installation. The ultimate goal was to create something new and innovative. There are so many WordPress sites out there that […]

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Dallas Website Design

Jun 22, 2012 articles, seo, web design

Today I was browsing my competition for the keyword Dallas Website Design. As I am writing this I am on the first page of Google for this search term. Just the 10th spot for now. But after looking at other sites that are ranking for Dallas Website Design, I am blown away that a company […]

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Craig Swag Open for Business

Jun 14, 2012 photo, photography

Craig Swag is up and running. After 8 years and a 100gb hard drive filled with my photography, I figured it was time to open up a shop. After all thousands of cool images are just sitting on my hard drive doing nothing, might as well get them out into cyber space and share them […]

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Jewelry Photography on white?

Jun 05, 2012 articles, photo, photography

So everyone knows that the internet shops like their white backgrounds. But is shooting jewelry on white really the way to go? I will admit done right shooting products on white create a clean look. Now with gold, white might not be a bad thing to shoot on. But with silver, well it gives off […]

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Fastest Ruby on Rails Install Guide

May 24, 2012 articles, web design

I tried to install Ruby on Rails on my computer about 6 months ago because I want to play around with the language and it’s capabilities. I watched some tutorials on how to install on YouTube, found some documentation on it as well. Problem is I couldn’t get it to work. There were so many […]

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Custom Template Page in WordPress

Apr 09, 2012 articles, web design

Adding a custom page template inside WordPress is pretty easy. Just need a little bit of code at the top of the file and you have your very own custom template page you can reference through out your theme. For instance, you want your homepage to be a full width with no side bar. Then […]

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Web Design Portfolio Examples

Mar 07, 2012 articles, web design

Misleading Web Design Examples When it comes to web design, there are tons of sites out there that have website samples. Lately I have been coming across these sites that have web design samples but once you dig a little deeper the live website of their so called design isn’t what is displayed on their […]

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Transcend the 90s

Feb 02, 2012 web design

Modern Day Web Design At Dallas apartment finder they realize that a modern day, clean, professional website is how you attract customers and website viewers. Alicia contacted me explaining she wanted to update her out dated website. I took her old website, kept the same content but added a completely new modern, look and feel. […]

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Web Design vs Web Development

Jan 16, 2012 articles, web design

Web Design and Web Development. What’s the difference? I get tons of phone calls for people looking for a web designer and then once we get into more detail of what they want out of their website, I find that they are looking for a web developer. So I would like to point out the […]

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