With all the readership (or lack of it) on this blog, one might wonder: “Why the hell are you still blogging here? You write these long articles but nobody ever reads them, nor are you making any money from them.” Well the answer to that is this: you’re missing the point. I never started this blog up with the intention of popularity or making any money from it, I started it for other reasons. Continue reading →

I finally got around to finishing the redesign I started in August. Progress was slow indeed, what with me totally ignoring this place for a couple of months, but it’s finally finished. I’m really pleased with how it came out, I plan on keeping this design for a while. Continue reading →

It’s been like what, two months since I last posted here? I’m back now, and the design is much closer to being done than it was a couple of months back (more on that in a later post). 2011 was a pretty good year for me, got paid more for web design, started making money with audio recording, and released an EP with my band. This year, I’ll be pushing the audio recording business further as well as getting a driver’s license and touring with my band. I’ll probably post about all that as it happens. Not much else to say, as I haven’t blogged in a while so I almost forgot what it was like.

For those who don’t know, Z-Up is a free public file uploader I launched in mid-2008. It’s been redesigned several times throughout the years, but the idea’s remained the same. Upload a file, get a link, done. It never really got much traction amongst the public, being used mostly for uploading dicks and stick figures to forums. However, it has proved to be a useful tool for my own purposes, my own little cloud, if you will. Continue reading →

Out of every major website, Facebook seems to have the most ungrateful, fickle users. No matter what changes Facebook makes, they’re always met with vehement criticism and hatred, often to the point of users throwing personal insults at the Facebook devs. The problem with this is that it poses a catch-22 decision for the developers. Either to a) innovate and continue to advance, while users get angered, or b) do absolutely nothing and maintain everything as is, but then risk stagnation like MySpace did. Continue reading →

As you may have noticed, DZine-Studios is a bit of a mess right now. Well actually, it’s not DZine-Studios anymore. That’s the first of several changes happening to this blog. The blog’s just called Dan, because it’s my personal blog, not a corporate blog, nor is it actually about a design studio, as the punny domain name might imply. Design’s also not really the main focus of this blog, nor has it ever really been. More after the jump.
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