Jeremy Davis - Web Designer, Developer and Blogger

I've been encouraged to bring back some more of the personal project style posts to this blog so in honor of doing so I'd like to give you a 2008 wrap up of how my wiiifit.com site did. If you haven't been keeping up with my Wiii Fit project, read the previous project posts. Finish Reading »

"I think all great innovations are built on rejections.”
Louise Nevelson

Over the past two weeks I've spent several hours of preparing, coding, testing and documenting a WordPress theme that I submitted to the web templates marketplace Theme Forest. I spent most of last night doing all the prep work for submitting the theme and its required documentation. Around 2am I finally got the theme submitted. And by the time I got back from lunch the same day, it was rejected.

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Here's a collection of websites that exemplify dirty, torn, distressed and grungy. This is a follow up to last week's 39 Grunge Resources Post. Finish Reading »

A collection of tutorials and resources useful when trying to accomplish the grunge, worn and dirty style of design. Finish Reading »

The blogosphere is ripe with list and collection style posts. Some days it feels like every 3rd post in my feed reader starts with a number. I'm posting one of those tomorrow and can't help but feel a little crummy about it. Update: it's tomorrow and here's the post. Finish Reading »

Let me give you a scenario that I've been seeing lately.

Some person, either a friend or coworker or family member, is bragging to you about some new computer they just purchased. They give you a run down on all the specs. Their face brightens as they talk about getting the best of the best. Quad-cores, the latest video cards, the greatest hard drive storage.

So you proceed to ask them what their plans are for this monster machine.

Their response, "Browsing and working on Word docs".

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As I've mentioned before, my brain is always coming up with new ideas. Often those ideas have some domain name attached to them that I think would fit the project perfectly. So I do the obvious thing and type in that URL just to see if it's taken or if someone else has had a similar idea. More often then not the domain is taken, but all that rests upon it is a crappy parked domain. What bothers me most about this isn't the fact that the domain is already taken, but that the idea isn't being put to use. Finish Reading »

While watching the latest James Bond flick, the Quantum Of Solace, I couldn't help but notice the beautiful typography used throughout the film. Whenever visiting a new location in the film there would be a short intro shot showing you where the events are taking place. Enjoy. Finish Reading »

It kinda struck me just now, although I've always known deep down, that I'm not a very balanced person. I'm a to the hilt type of person. When I do something, I becoming fully involved in it.  I learn everything I can about it. It consumes most of my time and energy. For instance, my mother still tells me stories of how when I was a child I had a time when I would wake up on Saturday mornings and spend the entire day in my room playing with K'nex. I didn't care about anything else, except building with my construction toys. And I've had a few people ask when I was going to write more posts for this blog, and my answer has been that I am currently working on another blog project that I was tired of talking about and decided to start. My energy has been completely involved with this new project from brainstorming and general plans for how the blog will go, to custom designing the theme and writing around 15 posts to start the blog off with. So that epiphany got me thinking about which is better to be. Finish Reading »