Brady J. Frey

October 29th, 2008

My New Portfolio Section

Finally, after weeks of doing everyone else's design work, I've finished my first round portfolio. Many sleepless nights the past week, coupled with an overwhelming neglect for my own posts and comments have kept me focused on finishing this immediately. Soon there will be a slide out for text links ...

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May 8th, 2008

First-line and letter for all browsers

Safari allows full support of the first-line and the first-letter CSS request, but Firefox 2 and under only shows partial support. Case example: the containing div of this post is class=entry (class instead of ID for other pages that require it), but simply calling .entry:first-line or .entry:first-letter works fine in ...

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April 14th, 2008

the RedPost: Custom Signs for the Bently Reserve

Eric Kanagy of the RedPost Inc. recently posted my sign Designs at the Bently Reserve, and I wanted to explain them a bit more to the world. I'll go more in detail in posts soon about the technical installation and management I oversaw with a fantastic crew at ...

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April 6th, 2008

960 Grid System

Working hard to streamline web design, Nathan Smith created the 960 Grid System: a series of electronic templates and web code to help designers create advanced sites based off the stylistic technique of the digital grid. I gave it a whirl on my recently launched (soon to be ...

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March 9th, 2008

New beginnings

Dotfive needed to end. Although I have a back log of clientele both within San Francisco and the Chicagoland Area, the challenge of design has become a mundane set of solving client problems, sacrificing personal design choices for the client need, and polishing whatever I find in the rubble. I've found ...

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March 5th, 2008

Flash is a joke

Thanks Uncle Steve, for telling the rest of the world what professionals in this industry have known for a while... flash is a joke. A cute inside joke where inexperienced designers jump to control the page with company scripted applications, driven and led by the needs of what the ...

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March 3rd, 2008

Acid3

Today it's announced the new Acid3 compatibility tests for modern web browsers. The goal, defined by their press release, is: The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards. Safari ...

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March 3rd, 2008

Microsoft Online gets rolling

CNET is pitching Microsoft's online system adds some big names, but I feel underwhelmed by the idea of Microsoft doing anything big in regards to the world wide web. My career as an Art Director experienced in code has always seen frustration with anything Microsoft considers it's internet.

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March 5th, 2007

Wordpress - designing without style

Joe Trotter discusses his distaste for default wordpress designs and laments on the cookie cutter appeal wordpress has on it's average users. Most will agree that the default themes suit the average user and at the same time fails the designer; although his impression is that MoveableType is the ...

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