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I was lucky enough to have my company pay for myself and my two colleagues, Brad and Adrian, to go to An Event Apart Chicago. Like my An Event Apart Boston Summary, I thought I would create a similar post. This is going to end up being a really long post, so I would recommend reading it in pieces or skimming. I am going to split it up into two pages so that the page does not get even more ridiculo…

Thank you America for doing the right thing.

Another busy week for me. I’ve finally finished my review of my experience at An Event Apart Chicago, and I will be publishing it later this week. Yes, I know it’s weeks late, but it is really long and was helpful in helping me remember what I learned. So, here are the links I found interesting last week: Attack Ad Generator A political attack ad generator full jQuery goodness. Free Site Validat…

Well hopefully this is going to be one of my last weekly round-ups. In my redesign, I am going to have an area made especially for asides where I can just post a link and a little description. The problem is just finding time to finish my design. So here are the links I enjoyed in the past week: Be Kind to the Color Blind Chris Campbell, who has a color vision deficiency, shares techniques to mak…

Well again, I am slow getting a blog post written. I have 4 drafts saved right now! I spent last weekend at An Event Apart Chicago, and I really enjoyed myself. So, here are some links from the past 2 weeks: Automatic numbering with CSS Counters Wow, I never knew this existed. Although if a user does not have a CSS capable browser, you better make sure the numbers are not essential to the content…

While there is no “correct” choice in the full vs. summary RSS feed debate, I came across a situation this weekend that reinforced my opinion for full feeds. The past few days, I was at An Event Apart Chicago, and I only had access internet access on Monday and Tuesday during the day. Now, I wanted to read my RSS feeds at other times, so I took my Google Reader offline with Gears, and started to…

Let me first apologize for being a terrible blogger. Two weeks without a word from me. I have been very busy at work, doing a bunch of freelance, and working on the redesign for this site. I also took a two day trip to New York for work to attend a gala for the National Park Foundation. So basically, this is two weeks worth of links in one blog article. I’m hoping to launch the redesign before I…

About a week ago, I was asked if I wanted to be included in Web Hosting Search’s Web Designer Guide. The project seems like a great idea, and below is a quote from the organizer, Eva, about the project: “This guide will aide visitors in finding a web designer in their local area. Say you want to start a website and sell hats and you are based in Tennessee but you have no idea how to make a websi…

Ah, football season is so great. It’s hard to get any work done on my redesign when there is so much football on TV though. Oh well, here is what I found interesting this week: Two thousand twenty two This post by Jeff is kind of like a tragic comedy. While it is laughable how ridiculous it is that it will take that long for the HTML 5 spec to become “Proposed Recommendation”, it is also sad how…

At work today, we were asked by a client to add a link to download Adobe Acrobat onto every page that had a PDF linked on it. Since the site was mostly static, with some content coming from the content management system, we were not interested in adding it to all of the static pages and changing the programming of the CMS output pages. My co-worker and I decided that the best way to do it would b…