MattHeisig.com | Web Design and Development in Knoxville, TN

I’ve run into a problem with sending email through Gmail and trying to set the “From Email” address to something other than the default account address.

I’m a sucker for reading about the business side of design and am always fascinated to hear Andy Rutledge’s perspective. His recent post, Designer, Owner, Manager - 1: Hiring the Right People addresses hiring strategy, something I happened to be re-reading in Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited. I’ve debated this issue on a number of occasions, sometimes with myself, sometimes with others but never to a definitive conclusion.

In the rush to finish this site within a week, compromises were inevitable. I managed to accomplish a large portion of what I set out to do but there are still a number features missing and a couple of bugs that cropped up unexpectedly. I’ve decided to detail everything I want to add in the near future but couldn’t within my time constraints as well as everything that broke along the way.

For the past year I’ve had to live every web designer’s worst nightmare. It’s what we all dread, what keeps us awake at night cursing our career choice and wishing for simpler times. You know, the curse of trying to satisfy the most difficult client imaginable: yourself.

Hyperbolic, yes, but it has sure felt like that recently. I’ve spent bits and pieces of my spare time over the last year trying to design and develop my own blog and portfolio site.