http://claudiaadler.com/blog2 Take 2 on Claudia's blog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:38:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I am not designing I also like to read and was happy to stumble upon what is called a "Blog-Parade" asking readers to send in a list of their 10 present or all-time favourite books. So here is mine, a  mixture of German, English and French literature: Stieg Larsson: "Millenium" Jhumpa Lahiri: ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/my-top-10-favourite-books/ With rumours of recession looming over the American economy the Financial Post published a nice article on how and what kind of web site will help your business survive hard times. While this article contains information that should be common knowledge among web designers, clients can be directed to this resource ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/financial-post-on-building-killer-small-business-web-sites/ A few weeks ago I was asked by Luc Arnold if I was interested in answering a few questions about my experience in web design to be published on his new Blog Spicywebdesigners. The interview is published at: Interview with Spicywebdesigners So far I am the first canadien "Spicy web designer" ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/interview-with-spicywebdesigners/ In collaboration with the PowerWatts Team I proudly present the NEW POWERWATTS website, featuring multiple web 2.0 features such as collapsible and tabbed panels, Dom Scripting, Google Maps and a Blog. A nice success considering that PowerWatts was indexed on Google page 1 even prior to its launch! One of the challenges ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/powerwattscom-now-online/ Recently I stumbled upon "Bulletproof Web Design" by Dan Cederholm. Attracted by the title I set out to discover the holy grail. As I am already used to working with the standard compliant table-less, Css approach (whenever possible) I did not really need any further convincing but liked how ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/bulletproof-web-design-and-dom-scripting/ Working on French and English versions of educational booklets early this year required updating huge amounts of Illustrator and Photoshop images from inside the native InDesign documents. Being used to working with multipage layouts in QuarkXPress I was extremely surprised and happy with the recent version of InDesign. InDesign is streamlined ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/great-publishing-software-quarkxpress-vs-indesign/ Much has been written about freelancing. A great source for information that I like to consult is freelanceswitch. Subjects covering inspiration, remuneration, client types (most interesting) are treated in interesting and sometimes humorous fashion. As a freelancer the web is an extension of my office and I fully use its potential as ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/freelancing-101/ After my disaster with the upgrade of WP 2 to 2.5, sleepless nights figuring out why my updated blog cannot connect to my DB I had no choice but starting over with a fresh installation of WP 2.5. and a new DB. Which means all previous entries and comments are lost.. ... http://claudiaadler.com/blog2/hello-world/