John Ziebro

Print and web designer extraordinaire

Archive for the 'web design' Category

Displaying Availability Online (Part 1)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Have you ever had the need to post your availability online without a complex calendar system? Need it to updated daily, but don’t want to move a finger to do it? Well if you are using a recent version of OS X, then you are in luck. iCal & Automator makes this task a snap. […]

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Ziebrophotography.com UI Design

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

This design for ziebrophotography.com allows clients to choose which image sizes they wish to print based on the package they have purchased. While there are other screens involved in the process (login, thumbnail gallery, and finalization) this screen has the main functionality. I am interested in seeing if you would make any changes to it. […]

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Project Management with Active Collab

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

I just installed ActiveCollab for use with freelance graphic and web design work. It is a great project management tool. For those of you who are familiar with Basecamp by 37Signals, ActiveCollab is an open source version that can be run on your own server. The installation was simple, but it does require PHP5 and […]

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Logo Idea

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

These are some variations on an logo for freelance web design work. I used a highly saturated pallete and small gradients hoping to create an energetic look. I am not convinced on the electrical elements. I may try a version simply with the 7 sided star in the center and no effects on it.
By the […]

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Ziebrophotography.com Launched

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Well I finally did it, and it was actually painless. I thought much work would be required to get a wedding portfolio website together but I was wrong. All of the programming I did last summer helped out. Some of the Web2.0 effects are created courtesy of Script.aculo.us. You can note that I didn’t call […]

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