PERSONAL WEBSITE OF DESIGNER + DEVELOPER STEVE MCDONALD
  • National Geographic HTML5 Test
  • National Geographic Flash Video Player
  • National Geographic HTML5 Recommendation By Apple
  • Apple HTML5 Recommendations
  • HTML5 Meetup
  • HTML5 First Draft
  • Android Second App
  • enginpost on Android
  • android development
  • my beard
  • Nerf bullets shot into Daniel
  • Daniel And Bobby Playing Wii
  • OGT Geekery
  • Spring morning workout with my Kindle
  • More Spring Flowers
  • Spring Flowers
  • Spring Tree Blooms
  • Electric Spider 3D Rendering
  • Local Tournament Illustration
  • Italian Eatery Illustration
  • Happy Illustration
  • Mikel letting us know
  • Dick and his wife Marcie
  • They all laugh
  • Jon and Mikel
  • Sue and her favorite gift
  • Demetrius gets the pineapple
  • Denise is offered the Pineapple
  • Susan gets her picture taken
  • Patty gets a gift
  • Kate gets a gift
  • Demetrius gets a gift
  • Excited about gifts
  • Christmas feast
  • Somber Josh
  • John and his wife Connie!!!
  • Party phone geeks
  • Melinda chatting at the party
  • Brian eating more food
  • Kate sparkeling for the cam
  • Sue singing and dancing
  • Mark having a convo
  • Jon hanging out
  • Will getting his groove back
  • Mikel and Thomas Eating
  • People on phones
  • Mikel and Thomas
  • Denise Lawson
  • Sue Struthers
  • Patty Myers
  • Kriza Jennings
  • Jon Melenson
  • Kate McLean
  • Josh Miller
  • Dick Williams
  • Mikel Wellington
  • Demitrius Smith
  • Susan Stiles
  • Will Nowell
  • Bobby Walker
  • Drupal NYC Meetup Badge
  • Waiting for sushi in SoHo
  • Streets of Manhattan
  • Crazy Penguins
  • Polar Bear Swimming
  • Zoe watching the tank
  • Ugly Monkeys
  • Bird at the zoo
  • Bird at the zoo
  • Walking in the park
  • Central Park art
  • Zoe and Jay hanging in Hoboken
  • What is another phrase for second place again?
  • Trophy for being on the winning team
  • Ducks on the golf course
  • Caroline selecting her path
  • Jim with the long put
  • Caroline going for it
  • Jeff takes a shot
  • NX Level mini-Golf Competition
  • The ever-important Starbucks around the corner
  • Front of Apartment Building
  • Entry lounge
  • Lobby
  • computer (pre-mac) and music
  • Kitchen
  • Livingroom
  • bedroom
  • Matt Richardson
  • Brian Carr
  • Daniel Hartanto
  • Thomas Davis
  • John Simon
  • Claudine
  • Mike
  • McDonald family flag
  • Braveheart
  • Baby Scott
  • Pipers
  • Parade Leader
  • Kilt
  • Drummers
  • Pipers
  • Parade Leader
  • Old car
  • Goldens
  • Great outfit
  • More Flags
  • Parade Leader
  • Pipers
  • Front Row Seat
  • People watching the parade
  • Cold Dog
  • Sleigh?
  • Alexandria police parade car
  • Flags
  • Flag bearers
  • Police Cycles
  • Police in the rain
  • To infinity!
  • Snoopy making a break for it
  • Micky flying above the street
  • Zoe and Jay sucked into the parade
  • Sponge Bob
  • Zoe watching the Parade
  • Yellow Parade Balloon
  • People watching the parade
  • Parade Balloon
  • Crowd Awaits The Parade
  • Jay and Zoe smiling in the subway
  • Jay and Zoe in the Subway
  • Scotty Dogs
  • Audio Image with a really long title
  • Bagpipes in the Snow
  • Scots with Swords
  • Scots from Wisconsin
  • Scottish Drummer

::Design BLOG

Web Marketing Via Slideshows

Web design is getting more complicated today.  I recall a day when designers could craft a visual design comp, PDF it, and send it to the client and it basically left nothing to the imagination. Early web design didn't move, didn't interact and the more confusing the site was, the more notoriety it seemed to get for being creative or inspiring. We are a long way from those days!

Retiring Design Techniques

In the world of design there will always be traditional techniques that endure. And the principles for good design while learned require creative insight and inspiration and talent for application.  Said another way, one can learn to be a design critic but not everyone can be a designer. Or at the least not everyone will become a good designer.

Testing Web Designs on Android (without a phone)

enginpost.com in Android's BrowserOne cool side effect of getting into Android Mobile App development would have to be the Android Emulator.  While there is plenty of stuff an emulator cannot achieve as a replacement for a real device, one great opportunity in an emulator is to be able to test

The Future Tablet Market

I have done a lot of thinking over the weekend and while I am fairly perplexed by the news about Apple shunning all of the 3rd-party development efforts for their mobile devices (Adobe included) in the end, I think there should be room to celebrate innovation and present a reasonable and analytical view of any new innovations that arrive on the market.

Fun Art For My Desktop

I noticed on the web the other day a design for a UFC site that looked like a ticket.  I decided to make a ticket that had my company logo on it for my computer desktop at work.

OGT-Ticker

CLick the image to view a larger version!

Dezeloper Heaven: New Interactive Designs

This is one of my favorite sites.  Every few months I loose track of it even if I have logged it in the design section of my Delicious bookmarks (simply because the list is getting a bit too long.) Some of the best tutorials I've found on layout, design, jquery interactive development as well as articles on design and development are maintained by the two brothers who run this site, Sam and Zach.

Wallpaper Patterns

I believe the first time I saw this site I read about the fact that it was created using Flex for the Flash platform.  It is really quite an amazing site.  These days I am not certain how useful the background pattern maker is (unless you want to tile images across your site like litteral wallpaper, though, I could see someone using this to create desktop wallpaper for their computer) but it is a lot of fun to fool around with. Click the logo below to go and have some fun:

More On Typography

Typography always matters.  From the web to print, making your copy approachable and easy on the eyes is what keeps people reading your content.  If content is king, then typography is the king's throne!

Smashing Magazine is linking out to 40+ indepensible free professional design fonts.  So what are you waiting for?  Click the image below to jump to the page and get your download on:

Time To PhotoChop

I recently bumped into this interesting vimeo site:

http://vimeo.com/groups/3488/videos/1208935

Being a vimeo contributor as well, I am always looking out for good creative work and this author seems to find the quickest techniques I have seen yet. This particular video is about merging a traditional photo with an abstract inkblot effect. Very creative stuff and the whole video is only 5 1/2 minutes long!

Where Web Typography Starts

webdesigndev.com

Are you getting tired of the same old available web fonts?  Well that might have more to do with the fact that you've forgotten what web fonts are safe and which are not, and more importantly, maybe you've been living somewhere between helvetica and arial.  Rest assured, there are other web friendly fonts and this site does a good job helping us fall in love with fonts again: