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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
When I'm not designing for the web, I enjoy music, go to concerts and play with gadgets.

Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

Pure Scenius at Eno’s Luminous Festival

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

For twenty years I’ve been interested in Brian Eno and have wanted to see him live in concert. I suppose it began when my dad played Eno/Byrne’s “The Jezebel Spirit” for me as a kid. Years later after having some CDs stolen in a break-in, I had the opportunity to spend about $500 of insurance [...]

Site Redesigned (Finally)

Monday, April 6th, 2009

In actually, I redesigned my site about a year ago. I comped it out in Fireworks (as I always do), I went through a few versions (I went back and forth on the green color) and even cut it up into HTML and CSS. And then we had a baby, and implementing the redesign into [...]

Catching up With

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Boy, I really must have fallen out of love with blogging in 2007, because I’m only posting about once or twice a month. It’s probably a phase I’m going through. But here’s what I’ve been up to lately.
San Francisco Vacation
During my recent San Francisco visit for Cooper Training, Faith flew out and we made a [...]

Cooper Training

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Sorry for the delay on this post, but the bad thing about leaving town for a week is that the work you would have been doing patiently awaits your return.
One of the things that has never quite sat right with me about design, is that it’s all so awfully subjective. Sure, you can point [...]

Why You Should Create Mockups in Fireworks

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

I’ve been using Macromedia Fireworks for years. At first, I had a bit of a difficult transition from Photoshop to Fireworks. Fireworks is really half Illustrator and half Photoshop, entirely geared towards web design. For example, it only operates in RGB – no CMYK. You won’t be creating print layouts in Fireworks. But the [...]

Webvisions 2006 – Everything Else

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I don’t remember who, but someone told me this prior to my going to Portland ? there are a lot of transexuals in the city. Now I didn’t really pay this much attention at the time, but it did occur to me that it was a strange thing to say about a city. I also [...]