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Intelligent Defaults vs TeamworkPM’s Management of Message Subscriptions

Intelligent Defaults vs TeamworkPM’s Management of Message Subscriptions

Our main project management tool is Teamwork as you may know. Teamwork is a great tool with all kinds of advanced functionality. Alas often the basics don't work. In this case Message subscription management.

I've written to TeamworkPM about five or six times about their incompetent management of message subscriptions. In the bad old days (pre-thrashing by Foliovision), TeamworkPM tried to make everyone subscribe to every message. It was hell. Clients emailed our entire team (up to 35 people at a time) for the smallest issue. We couldn't get any work done.

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Three Ways to take Full Length Website Screenshots on OS X

At last a website screenshot utility with a decent name. I've always wanted to like Paparazzi on the name alone.

Case Study: DC Rainmaker Blogger to WordPress Migration

Triathlon enthusiast and blogger Ray Maker needed a website upgrade. Here's how Heather Sander and Foliovision made it happen in just one week.

Case Study: US Soccer Players Typepad to WordPress Move

The US Men's National Soccer Team Players Association asked Foliovision to transform their website. Here's how it turned out.

Seven reasons creative designers should seek technical excellence

Seven reasons creative designers should seek technical excellence

We hire lots of designers, many of them from the local technical university. I’m always surprised at how many of them have really crappy technical skills. It seems to go with the underlying meme in society that computers are for guys. Invariably, these designers are very concerned with doing creative work and being seen as creative.


Rodin The Thinker by Brian Hillegas CC

Here’s how bad it can get. Our latest hire (with a Master’s Degree in technical design!) could not even do a scan properly. She handed back jaggy 700 px x 1000 px scans of 12 x 18 photos with bad black and white points.

Wake up ladies. Design is a craft. There is no more excuse for you not having first rate technical skills than for a carpenter not to be able to use a lathe properly.

Perhaps they could make the argument that they are more sculptors than wood workers. Did Rodin have to know how to use a lathe (actually Rodin worked mainly in bronze)?

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How to resize a text logo correctly in Photoshop

A lot of logos on the web look like they were run over by a truck. Blurry, jagged, hideous. Here's how to make your resized logos gorgeous and sharp.

The first point is to always save your graphics and logos as either a GIF or a PNG. Saving solid colour graphics and logos as a jpeg is a catastrophe and inevitably results in nasty digital noise. This sound elementary but I have had three trained graphic designers do this wrong, including a graduate of the Art Institute of California. The only one who knew the right answer (in what format to save a text logo) was our lead programmer, Peter.

For an example, one doesn't have to go further than the website of Royal Bank of Canada.


RBC logo: jpeg text buzz in action

Even billions of dollars won't save you from jpeg text buzz on your logos. Here are the jpeg jaggies in closeup:

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