I am pleased to announce that my first plugin has been accepted in the WordPress repository! Now you can embed videos directly in your WordPress dashboard with a very simple plugin. Go to the WordPress download page for Video Dashboard here. I have a lot of clients, and one of my favorite things to do is make screencasts for them as … Read More
Brian Johnson Design is happy to announce that we have gone live with a new WordPress site for Ponytail Xpress, a Lakeville-based errand service and personal shopping service. In addition, I noticed today that even though we just launched the site and we only did minor search engine optimizations, it is currently ranking fairly high on the first page for … Read More
We recently launched a new website for the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro-based marketing agency, Magnetik Marketing Solutions. The site is actually template-based, with numerous customizations done to it. There is a large, front-page slider that gets some of the marketing message of the business out to visitors while adding a little motion and excitement to the design. To add some content … Read More
I recently completed a brand new website and ecommerce store for BE OWN Sportswear. They are a great new company based near Minneapolis, Minnesota that donates 50% of all proceeds to help support kids in developing countries. You can check out the new sportswear website here (update: link removed, site no longer exists). They are really a great new brand, … Read More
That’s right, Microsoft does not understand Twitter. Today they launched a page (update – page has been deleted) where viewers of the President’s State of the Union Address can keep track of their favorite topics such as gun control, unemployment, and climate change in real time, displaying whether recent social media posts about those topics tend to be positive or negative. … Read More
I’m proud to announce that my design has been chosen as the new cover photo for CouponPal.com’s Facebook Page! As part of their Show Me The Savings: Adobe Creative Suite Giveaway, I submitted an entry to be considered among many others for the top prize of Adobe Creative Suite 6, which includes some amazing software from Adobe. After about a week … Read More
I am happy to report that things here at Brian Johnson Design are going well. I have a full workload of new websites and jobs to work on. Now my job is to figure out how to manage my time and get all of this done, so that I can go out and get even more new business As recently … Read More
I am pleased to present my newest site to go live! Josh Havlik is an insurance agent based out of Lakeville, MN, dealing with insurance policies for home, auto, etc. He wanted a very basic, one page site where he could say what he needs to say and generally have a place where people could find his contact information. The … Read More
I just finished designing and ordering my new business cards! Hopefully, within the coming weeks, I will also have a new design for my website and blog as well. I wanted to keep the business card design very simple and elegant. One side just has the logo which I hope people will find to be visually appealing and still classy, … Read More
This website has actually been up for quite some time now, but I am just getting to writing about it today. If you haven’t heard of Jamison Murphy before, check out his debut music video here. If you notice, I am actually in the first shot of the video sitting at a table! Why is this, you ask? Because I … Read More
