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 ...
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 ...
I recently updated a client's business website to Wordpress 2.5, and noticed the dated rand_posts trick failed me. Further investigation noted that Wordpress had completely changed it's table schema from categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables to a more flexible Taxonomy Schema. After a bit of Googling, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Just because someone asked, here's a quick way to find and replace content in MySQL using PHPmyAdmin. This technique works the same command line, and it's possible it works similar in applications such as Navicat, but I have little experience in GUI tools. To manage: Login to PHPmyAdmin Select the ...
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 ...
Dave hyatt blogged recently that although safari 3 was finishing with a decent 39/100, their developer version has now surpassed the 90/100 point with some hard development time. Dave notes: Shipping Safari scores a 39/100 with some significant rendering errors. We’ve been working hard since the test surfaced and are ...
Microsoft is releasing it's first public beta of IE 8 today. It should be interesting to see what bug fixes are in store for developers, and what new bugs we'll need to work around.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Recently I've posted comments on Out to Lunch's remark against accessibility on the web who notes when debating how to code for the blind: I see it in no way possible given current technology. This may seem like an paradox to most, but Donavon's statement is in no way true. ...
From the Roman Cart site: We strongly recommend that you create your website using html, and not a server side language such as php or asp. The reason for this is that Google will find your products on standard html pages, but is a lot less likely to if your ...
Probably one of the more frustrating hosts I've had to deal with , Host Rocket lost all of our client's data... and not just the standard issue website data, the emails on the server, and their customized installation of DotProject... including all the data that's in these ...
Dreamhost may have made marketing redemption with the beautiful and revealing Web Hosting's Dirty Laundry. A brief, and quality, tirade into the realm of 'independent hosting review sites' that market themselves as user sites displaying the best of the best; though apparently the independent reviews are simply fluff for the ...
Slashdot is launching a new css design contest that could throttle any qualified designer, here's some sad tidbits: Topic Icons - So we have 150+ topic icons. Your design needs to incorporate our existing icons, and not require that we rebuild all of them. That means most likely that the ...
One of the more troubling issues I had with wordpress is unique ID's for the admin menu bar. I'm sure you're asking why in the world I would need this:) -- simply put, I wanted unique icons per admin area. Steve Smith's Tiger Admin tackled this issue with advanced CSS: #adminmenu ...
Looks like the dreamhost blog is bragging about it's financial margins on how easy it is to host with their past experience. Does this mean that I'll stop having downtime, email issues, moved mysql databases without notification, and all around stability? Hopefully, I host 3 xserves at work for ...
