Aug
27
Epic Flooring Systems Launched
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HattersWorkshop is proud to announce the launch of http://www.epicflooringsystems.com.
They create artistic wall to wall custom floor systems out of an amazing variety of colored glass, percious metals, gems, and other bright and colorful materials. You wanna floor made from tiger’s eye? They got it. No really. They do.
The target market for them includes nightclubs, resorts, […]
Aug
25
Sweet!
I’ve taken a job at Fathom in Hartford doing mostly web development and cross browser css work on some of their bigger projects. I’m excited to be pushed in this direction and glad to bring my experience with SEO and graphic culture to their mix.
I started last Monday and I love it! The people are […]
Aug
21
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/18/7-principles-of-clean-and-optimized-css-code/
This is another post from SmachingMagazine. The principles are a pretty good standard ruleset.
#1 (shorthand CSS) is key. I opt for the least amount of whitespace as I can as some of the CSS files I write for larger sites still have a few hundred lines. This is without the IE 6 hacks, which are […]
Aug
11
Top Ten Web Typographic Sins
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Here is a good top ten list. Everyone and their brother has one of these. This one is by Steven D. of smashingmagazine.
Number 1 and 2 are the em dash ( — )and ellipsis ( … ). I also found particular interest in number 5:
Not only is it ugly and lazy, a copyright symbol hacked […]
Aug
6
Introducing Microsoft Mesh
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Brace yourself; this is a cool application. Taking cues from PC Anywhere and Goto My PC, Mesh allows you to access your computers, devices, programs, and files, from any computer that has an internet connection. All you have to do is previously download and set up their software on your PC and then you can […]
Aug
4
I saw this morning that A List Apart is doing their second annual web designers survey. I took part last year and am glad to take part again this year. Web business in general are run pretty differently than most other industries and this project hopes to help to decode just what sort of an […]
Aug
1
PHP: If (equal to AND not equal) - eliminate form spam without using a captcha
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Just learned a great function of PHP thats already made my forms a lot better. A while back I wrote an article about eliminating form spam without captchas by using css to hide a text input box for bots to fill in. By giving the input box a legit sounding name like “email” the bots […]