Front end design that stands out.
Rachel Nabors is a web designer and front end developer, an award winning cartoonist, and a creative gun for hire.
February 28th, 2009 | Portfolio | Please comment!
When Karen Luk asked me to design a gallery site for her with a CMS to help organize her artwork, I jumped at the chance to help a fellow artist. But there were some interesting conditions: under no circumstances could the site look like it was powered by WordPress, and she needed it all done in time for a looming convention!
February 2nd, 2009 | Articles | 1 Comment
WordPress has a bad reputation for getting hacked. It’s opensource, so anyone can figure out how it works and where it’s weaknesses are. And most new owners don’t take very basic measures to protect themselves because they don’t know how. So here’s an excerpt from my resource Essential WordPress Plugins to help guide would-be victims.
December 3rd, 2008 | Articles | 4 Comments
Some time after reading Steve Krug’s fascinating Don’t Make Me Think, which is a fantastic introduction to usability and accessibility that any web monkey worth their salt should read immediately, I began implementing something I like to call my Three Minute Accessibility Test. It’s a fast, simple way of making sure that your page makes [...]
December 3rd, 2008 | Portfolio | 1 Comment
A front page design mockup for a retro salon. It never got used, but it’s still sweet.
December 2nd, 2008 | Portfolio | Please comment!
Before I built The Pink Crow, I had just one site called Subculture of One. Previously, Subculture of One was just a place where I kept links to all my old gURL.com comics, blogs, social networking sites and a newsletter, but once I started making sites full time, I tried to integrate that part of my work into the new site…. with mixed results.
December 1st, 2008 | Portfolio | Please comment!
I realized that there wasn’t any sort of promotion tool in place to help me get more comics like mine to my readers, who were emailing me for webcomic recommendations on a regular basis. Seeing a need, I decided to provide a solution, a banner exchange for webcomics by/for/about women: Exchange.Rubifruit.com
November 30th, 2008 | Portfolio | Please comment!
I was commissioned to design PercolateTV.com earlier this year. They wanted just a design, so the actual coding was handled by someone else.
Percolate TV is a startup peddling an out of the box You-Tube-esque solution for small to large businesses. They wanted a retro, diner feel for their site. I was given the coffee cup [...]
November 29th, 2008 | Articles | Please comment!
It’s not my first post, but it is close to it! Welcome to my new blog-folio. I will be posting useful articles about things related to CSS, front end design, usability, and so on, mainly for the benefit of my friends and colleagues. Hopefully the rest of the Internet will find something of interest here [...]
November 15th, 2008 | Articles | 4 Comments
These are basic plugins that I can’t imagine installing Wordpress without, plugins which improve performance, secure, or otherwise basically improve Wordpress’s work functionality. I thought I would list them here, because in my searches for top 10 plugins, I have not found a list quite like this. Consider it a basic 14.
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