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So many late nights this week watching basketball and working on a freelance project. Lots of good things to read this week: 5 Most Common Web Standards Misconceptions I love the first item: Web Standards = Validation. Just because your site is valid, that doesn’t mean it’s not crap. Core Principles for Rapidly Attaining Creative Flow Some simple techniques for achieving “a state of focused con…

During my senior year of college, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life, so I applied to some graduate programs. I knew one thing for sure: I wanted to make a difference. Thankfully, I was rejected from both graduate programs I applied to. While I may not be making a difference in the Army or anything like that, I think that there are definitely ways to make a difference using web…

Wow, crazy week at work. I felt like everything I had to do had a deadline of immediately. I’m so glad it’s the weekend, and I can watch some college basketball. So, here are a few interesting things from this week: Maintaining your Personal Brand Online Some nice tips to create and maintain your person “brand”. I’ve been trying to do some of these things recently. Charlie Rose Face Plants To S…

Last fall, I bought a 2008 Nissan Altima. I absolutely love it, and I chose it over other cars like the Accord and Camry because of the way it drove. But, there is one thing that really bugs me: the steering wheel controls. More particularly, the volume and next/previous track controls. As I wrote in The Importance of Testing, I feel like some problems with products could be resolved pretty easil…

Well, I didn’t get much sleep this week, because I spent the entire week staying up late playing with my new MacBook Pro. It’s amazing. Best purchase ever. When I wasn’t playing, this is what I found interesting this week: HTML Reference Nice reference of all of the HTML elements, attributes, deprecated attributes, etc. Nothing new, but just good for reference. The Secrets Of Grunge Design I l…

In a recent project at work, I had completed implementing a site, and the client was reviewing it. Their company decided that they wanted all external links to open in a new window. This is not a practice that I really like, and others agree: Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my…

It was a busy week at work this week, but a good busy. I was slicing a site, and implementing it into Wordpress. It’s going to be a good edition to my portfolio when it’s done. So, enough of the small talk, this is what I found interesting this week: Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 We awoke on Monday morning to very interesting news: We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interp…

I recently wrote an article discussing how to use PNGs effectively in all browsers (including IE6). For work, I had to slice a site that used a lot of PNGs, and I ran into something that I had never encountered before. I was trying to use the Microsoft proprietary AlphaImageLoader Filter because they background images were PNGs that were going to scale to fit the background. The div that I was se…

Wow, I can’t believe I have written these weekly link round-up 20 times. The time sure has flown by. Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples Nice discussion of navigation trends, with lost of examples. I really like the first trend: Trend toward “speaking” block navigation. I may consider doing something like that in the next redesign. How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax Tutorial explaining the…

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