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It is pretty sad how much my life depends on the internet. I got to work early today and left early, with plans on writing a couple of blog posts and working on my redesigned logo. But of course, my power went out. So right now, I am sitting Border’s, and I caved and bought an hour of internet time. Oh well. Here are a few links I found interesting this week: The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I…

It has been crazy times at work recently. I am in the process of slicing three sites at the same time. In all the madness, this is what I found interesting last week: The Missing Link I love that we have Eric Meyer fighting on our side. Eric discusses how the href attribute should be allowed on many elements instead of a few. He even goes on to show examples and discuss the pros and cons. A List…

For a while, I have been using the flickrRSS WordPress plugin to show my recent flickr photos in the footer of my site. Since I have become more comfortable using jQuery, I thought I would use it to make the plugin better. I created a demo page. to see what the markup generated from the plugin normally is. The markup is just an unordered list, and I have done some basic CSS so that it looks halfw…

Yeah, so I had an awesome birthday weekend. My girlfriend bought me a 46 inch HDTV for my birthday! Also, Sunday was my two year anniversary at Matrix. Crazy how time flies. Here is the stuff that I found interesting this past week: Getting Design Approval: The Single Mockup Theory I think that by providing only one mockup for clients to react to, it gives them the opportunity to get a feeling for…

I had been receiving a decent amount of traffic to the article: MacBook vs MacBook Pro, Help Me Decide!, so I thought I would give a quick update so people would know which I chose. I did finally decide to go with the MacBook Pro. I think the screen size was one of the biggest factors for me. 15 inch vs 13 inch doesn’t seem like that much, but when looking at them next to each other, it is a huge…

Gotta love a nice long weekend and the short week that follows. Here are the interesting things that I read this week: Netflix Roku: Free Is Such A Beautiful Word Nice, so Netflix is going to offer a $100 box that will stream movies free for Netflix subscribers. Handoff Dave Shea describes his process of handing off his designs. A List Apart: Issue 259 This issue featured two really good article…

My latest redesign project at work was for Group Logic. Another company did the design and created static HTML templates. My role was to create a single header and footer to make maintaining the site easier, and to wrap the store and other dynamic applications in the new design. The company who designed it used images for the form buttons, and I found some interesting things while implementing the…

After a busy week at work, it’s great to relax during the weekend. Even though I was getting my sister’s website finished, I always enjoy slicing a site. Here are a few things I found interesting this week: Initial Impressions of Silverback There has already been a lot written about the Silverback website, but no one has really been clear on what the application actually is. This is a nice review…

Wow, I was actually able to get some sleep this weekend. Too bad I didn’t have any time to do freelance work or work on the redesign for my site. Oh well, at least there was a lot of interesting things that I read this week: Image Replacement + Google Good to know, Google won’t penalize you for using image replacement properly. This is something we all assumed but were never really clear on. The…

One of the first things I do when I am creating the markup for a new site, is to set a body id. You may wonder what I mean when I say “set a body id”. What I mean is to dynamically check the url to figure out which section you are in. This tutorial will show how to do this dynamically using PHP, and also how to integrate it into WordPress. Why Should I Set a Body Id? There are plenty of reasons w…