Hello, I'm Chris Murphy — I specialize in creating engaging, user-centric interactive experiences.
Archive for "Design"
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Mar 2010 5
How to Fix Your Broken CMS: Part 2
Author’s Note: Considering the subject matter and length of this particular article, I’ve decided to split it into two separate articles. Related Articles: How to Fix Your Broken … -
Mar 2010 5
How to Fix Your Broken CMS: Part 1
Author’s Note: Considering the subject matter and length of this particular article, I’ve decided to split it into two separate articles. Related Articles: How to Fix Your Broken … -
Apr 2009 6
Out with the Old and in with Something Dramatically Different.
As some of you may have noticed by now, I’ve updated farfromfearless. I suppose “update” is a bit of an understatement. If you’re reading this post, it’ll be in the context of a dramatically n… -
Feb 2009 25
WordPress Theme Design Part 4: Visual Texture
Visual texture plays a large role in design: the lack of and the addition of texture are all part of visual communication. It is one of the ways a designer can appeal to the users’ senses thro… -
Jan 2009 19
WordPress Theme Design Contests — What Are You Really Getting Involved In?
To be clear: this post is not announcing a new contest. While I'm an ardent supporter of promoting the WordPress platform any way I can, the contest documentation sent up red flags after th… -
Jan 2009 17
Sites That Inspire – 2.
One of the trends that seems to be re-emerging lately in design (regardless of industry) is a more illustrative approach to some of the graphical aspects of a design. In the past, most illustr… -
Nov 2008 10
FrogCMS – Content Management Simplified.
Content Management Systems come in so many flavours, and while I don't advocate any one system over another, I have no hesitation in saying that this product is one to keep an eye out for. Cre… -
Nov 2008 9
Best Practices for Determining Content Density for Websites.
Well written content is an integral part of web-design as much as the actual design and code around and behind it. Good copy writing can better help a user determine the context of the page, f… -
Nov 2008 6
Sites That Inspire.
Like many folks in the advertising/creative industry, I'm experiencing what amounts to the Christmas rush -- that fourth quarter (for my agency anyway) race to wrap up projects and get as much… -
Jul 2008 23
How to BETTER Communicate Design Decisions to Clients
In a recent recent article on Smashing Magazine, "How to communicate design decisions to clients", writer Brian D. Armstrong laid out a five-point guideline on how to rationalize and present d… -
Jul 2008 11
Twilight Saga WordPress Theme
There are so many themes out there that just don't seem to have much of a concept behind them, in fact most seem to be little more than decoration. I don't think WordPress themes need to alway… -
Jun 2008 24
Separating the creative from the technical in web-design.
Web-design in all it myriad forms, can be characterized as the marriage of creative vision and technical implementation. But it is the limitations and resulting solutions for what can be achie… -
Mar 2008 18
Working at an Advertising Agency or a Boutique Shop – which option is better?
With all the stiff competition for limited placements in agencies, it's not difficult to understand the concern over wanting to work for the best and at the best creative agency. To confuse st… -
Jan 2008 24
WordPress Theme Design Part 3: Color and Contrast
Color selection can be troublesome especially when it comes to designing for yourself. WordPress themes are no exception, and the exercise itself is possibly one of the more challenging aspect… -
Jan 2008 18
WordPress Theme Design Part 2: Web Typography
In the previous installment of this series, I covered how we can harmonize and control the layout of our design by making consistent use of a strong column measure. In turn, the column measure…
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