Archive | Design & Layout

17 June 2011 ~ Comments Off

Font face in CSS

Use @font-face in your CSS Computers have been capable of displaying multiple fonts for several decades now, so it might seem odd that fonts are only just now becoming standardised on the web. However, disagreement on file formats along with complex font licensing issues have turned this into quite a difficult challenge to overcome. Fortunately, [...]

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04 August 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Wave goodbye

From the official Google blog. They announced today that they will no longer be supporting Google Wave by the end of the year.

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16 July 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Paulette Greene

One of the latest project i have done for SCI is for a client named Paulette Greene. They are a large realtor shop here in the DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) area.

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17 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”

The new Wordpress 3.0 is out and full of new stuff to play with! It’s a great improvement for us as developers and as the end user.

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28 May 2010 ~ 1 Comment

New short url service

Turn large annoying urls into short and simple ones! Your short url will go directly to the page of your choice, and last forever.

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23 September 2009 ~ Comments Off

Welcome to the future

A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It’s an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should. Google, being a company that develops a web browser, has taken it upon themselves to [...]

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16 December 2008 ~ Comments Off

Vetteblock – invite only Beta

Vetteblock a project that myself and Scott Cole have been working on for about a year now is finally come to life! The beta phase is invite only, but we will be moving to public soon, once we smash most of the bugs. I will be sure to keep you posted on this project as [...]

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10 December 2008 ~ Comments Off

Phasing out support for IE 6

37Signals is dropping all support for ie6! This will be a good move, as most company’s are still stuck on supporting ie6 costing millions in time and effort. On August 15th, 2008 October 1, 2008 we will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 across all 37signals products. In order to continue using the [...]

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10 November 2008 ~ Comments Off

CSS 3 talk – Rounded corners

So the last few years have brought amazing things, with the standards movement and getting companies to pay attention to the importance of following standards. In that time, I have seen over five big changes in PHP, three great changes in rails and only one in CSS. Why are we not seeing css3? Why does [...]

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23 September 2008 ~ Comments Off

Surge in traffic from IL?

The past few days i have been receiving large amounts of traffic from the US state of Illinois! I would like to say to all my readers in IL “Thanks for the traffic!!!”.

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28 August 2008 ~ Comments Off

Models For Real Agency Integration

Pete Lerma posted this question over on SXSW panel picker. This question brings up a good point that i think people should weigh in on. Creating effective integration is the biggest challenge agencies face today. There are lots of approaches but which one is best? Should you have separate online and offline departments? Should everyone [...]

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14 August 2008 ~ Comments Off

What do you do?

This is great, a buddy sent this to me today! It’s the truest flow chart i have ever seen! Note to self, dont let anyone know i do “web” work, it always leads to the same thing…

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21 February 2008 ~ Comments Off

Adobe AIR and Guestbook v2.2

Coming soon is the new php guestbook version 2.2 with some nice updates that fix a few bugs and a new design change. Version 2.2 will also support a new adobe AIR application for the admin area. This AIR application will allow the admin to login and approve, delete and edit posts without ever going [...]

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13 January 2008 ~ Comments Off

Public beta for a public product

Why not? Some developers call public beta “Bullshit”, they say that you are afraid to release a full version and put the blame out of your hands. They go on to also say that this is a “if it does not work don’t blame us” type of attitude. I feel public beta for a public [...]

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11 January 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Educating your client

Something we as a designer or developer will come across many times, educate your client but don’t insult them! Now I am lucky I have a teacher for a wife so I have seen a few things that she does when talking to students or parents. First we must understand our client, most don’t know [...]

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