http://blog.hattersworkshop.com A fly on the wall in a one man design studio in Hartford, CT Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:41:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HatterWorkshop is proud to announce the release of MarrIllustrations.com. We went to school together at University of Hartford and so I've known Justin for almost a decade now. His work consistently makes use of extremely vivid color and eye pleasing compositions. He was always a better painter than I was ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/09/26/web-launch-of-wwwmarrillustrationscom/ If you came to this page and your running IE, start by downloading firefox 3 here. Thats step 1 to getting a faster browser. The rest of the steps, to varying degrees, will increase your browser's speed. No doubt about it. Piplelining, telling your browser to request multipul packets of data before ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/09/23/8-hacks-to-make-firefox-ridiculously-fast/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/27/epic-flooring-systems-launched/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/25/new-job-as-a-web-developer-at-fathom/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/21/7-principles-of-clean-and-optimized-css-code/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/11/top-ten-web-typographic-sins/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/06/introducing-microsoft-mesh/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/04/a-list-apart-2008-web-designers-survey/ 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 ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/08/01/php-if-equal-to-and-not-equal-eliminate-form-spam-without-using-a-captcha/ For one of my soon to be released projects I was asked to create a footer background image that was stuck to the bottom of the website or broswer window. Finding a cross browser css footer was a pain, and inplementing it took some trial and error with the numbers ... http://blog.hattersworkshop.com/2008/07/31/cross-brower-css-footer-tested-and-true/