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Going back in the archives of Smashing Magazine, I found an interesting inspiration article on Award Winning Newspaper Designs and all I’ve got to say is that if one of the regional newspaper would look half as interesting as any of those, I would read it!

I know… it’s sad. I’m 30 years old and I don’t rarely read the local (or any) newspaper. Their boring, unattractive design makes for a boring read.

Rarely is any color used … maybe it costs too much?! Don’t they get that color attracts the eye? Or colorful ads, imagery makes it more interesting? Just like website design has evolved, so should newspaper design in my opinion. It’s not surprising why people tend to read smaller newspapers that are available in the free stands (like 24 heures (PDF)). They tend to be more colorful, bigger images and varying layouts.

Fonts, layout, color. 3 simple things that can make a newspaper more interesting to read.

Just wrote an article for The Web Squeeze called Get Inspired With Showcases. Focuses on a few, really great, CSS Showcase sites out of the hundreds out there. Hope you like it and please digg it if you do

As I said in my first blog entry, I have started a business with 3 great friends of mine. Unfortunately, friends I have never met because of the distance separating us. Hopefully, we will be able to change that at one point

The Web Squeeze is a Web Design and Development magazine and forum. We have just updated the design (v1.5) and I think it’s looking really great. Our forum is getting busier and busier by the day so that’s really good news.
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After a … few years hiatus, I’ve decided to bring back the blog.

Quite a lot has changed in my life since I had this blog and I thought it was high time for me to bring this back. My designs have changed, I started a company with 3 great friends from the 4 corners of this wonderful world (more on this later), I’m getting really good at Photoshop (well … I think I am), my little Alexandra is growing too fast and my husbands’ band is making some great music.

I hope to be able to keep this blog alive and hopefully people will come back and read it again.

I’ll be ironing out the design in the coming days.