Designing for the Web

By Esther | March 23, 2010

Esther writes about designing for the web, from the client’s perspective.

“Designing for the web” or “Ouch! My double-click finger hurts”

I recently had the opportunity to watch a client look over some site comps. (Ellen, the client, is a local artist. I have been teaching her to use her digital camera and Photoshop to document her artwork. She knows that I also do web design and wanted my opinion on her new site. I agreed to take a look, and learned something in the process.) Ellen’s designer sent her a zipped folder as an email attachment. This is where the trouble begins… Read more »

Happy New Year

By Esther | December 7, 2009

Happy New Year
Best Wishes for the New Year from all of us at Ronin Tech Collective

Another New Member

By Jason | October 1, 2009

Esther S White is our newest member. She is a front-end developer and designer; passionate about web standards and usability, findability, and the integration of structure, presentation, and behavior to create accessible, intuitive, and beautiful websites. She is also a visual artist, with a degree in Studio Art and Computer Science from Barnard College, and a member of Zea Mays Printmaking Studio in Florence, MA.

Esther will help us expand our service offerings. We are very excited about the direction Ronin will be taking in the months ahead. Stay tuned!

Ronin Featured on CNN

By Jason | September 17, 2009

We were featured on CNN along with 5 other worker-owned companies.

When Workers Take Charge

Welcome to all who found us from there. Please be sure and visit these two important sites to learn more about our movement:

Valley Aliance of Worker Cooperatives

U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

We have a new member!

By Jason | July 17, 2009

It is with much anticipated enthusiasm that we can announce that Benjamin Bradley is joining Ronin! He has been working with computers since before it was cool. He enjoys working with Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and has experience with many others as well. Benjamin graduated from the Computer Science program at the University of Texas at Austin. He also works with GAIA Host Collective, a worker-owned web hosting company dedicated to social and environmental sustainability (http://www.gaiahost.coop).

Benjamin will continue to work from Austin, Texas, officially introducing the virtual office concept to Ronin. He has been actively working with MI, the open source content management system that has its roots with Brattleboro Tech Collective. He plans on supporting MI for Ronin’s clients that use it.

Welcome Benjamin!