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During my tenure at LevelTen I would estimate that I’ve fielded over 10,000 phone calls or emails from companies and individuals who are looking for some assistance with their web project.

Speak Easy Drupal this week is all about going mobile with your Drupal website. With the rise in popularity of smart phone like the iPhone and Blackberry, it's more important then ever to make sure your website plays nice with the mobile crowd. But how do you do this? From modules to stylesheets, there are many ways to make sure your website looks right on the small screen. We'll go over all of these tactics, and more, in this week's Speak Easy Drupal.

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One of my favorite places to go for design inspiration and resources is smashingmagazine.com. Recently, they posted an excellent article titled 60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources.This is an amazing display of some great logo's. They have also included several useful tutorials that will walk you through the entire process of creating a logo from start to finish.

In today's podcast, we discuss...

How I Might Deal with IE6

Panelist: Brandon Manbeck

Eight years ago (almost to the day), Jeffrey Zeldman signaled the dawn of "The CSS Age" when he wrote To Hell With Bad Browsers. Explaining how the use of @import for referencing stylesheets is ignored by Netscape 4 was an important step in shedding the problems related to supporting an ancient browser. Eight. Years.

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How would you like to have your articles showing your expertise published on LevelTenDesign.com?

In this week's episode, we discuss designing for mobile devices, all about Axure, and what exactly are superdomains?

Designing for Mobile Devices

Panelist: Chris Sloan

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Along with the adoption of Drupal as LevelTen’s recommended CMS/development framework, comes the need for best practices for Drupal design themes. Whether the design theme is pre-designed or is created from scratch, there are several things to keep in mind. LevelTen has some advice that can be extended to designers, developers, and management teams, when choosing a template or custom designing for Drupal or a similar CMS platform.

I often contemplate: Is their a difference between an artist and a designer?

If you are stumped for ideas and wondering how to revive that creative energy you once felt…look no further. I have compiled a list of ways to never run out of ways to be original and inspired!

Any web designer will tell you that usability is at the top of their list, but as a designer it is common to focus on aesthetics first and usability second. This mistake is important to acknowledge because it is creating a barrier between “aesthetically pleasing” sites and “functional” sites. As designers, we have to remember we design usability. Below is a list of 8 steps designers should take to ensure site usability: