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So, they just painted big letters and numbers in my parking garage at work. Can you name that font? With the numbers being below the baseline of the text, it makes me think it’s Georgia. Anyone else have a guess?

Update I went with a MacBook Pro. Find out what helped me to make my decision. I have been craving an Apple laptop for about a year and a half now. Since Apple, just updated both the MacBook and the Macbook Pro today, I think it’s finally time. But now, the hard part comes up, which do I get: the MacBook or the MacBook Pro? MacBook So here are the specs for the MacBook that I would get: Size:…

There has been a lot of discussion/arguments recently about IE8’s rumored version targeting. I have been a little in between on which side to take, but I think a few articles from this week really helped me to make my decision. They Shoot Browsers, Don't They? Jeremy Keith has a great discussion about why the default version targeting is incorrect. He does not think you should have to add extra co…

Wow, I’m actually all caught up with my feeds. I’m really looking forward to this 3-day weekend. I really could use the extra time to work on a personal project. Here is what I found interesting this week: Make sure your website works with or without www It’s surprising how many sites you see that don’t work one way or the other. Not to mention that this can hurt your search engine optimization.…

Well, I’m actually writing my weekly round-up on time this week. Guess it helps to actually keep up with my feeds. Here are a couple of items from last week that I didn’t get a chance to read until this week. 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design Nice overview of 10 principles to make designs usable. Remember, web design is all about the user. Stay on :target Some examples of how to use the CSS3…

Such things like copyright dates, ages, etc. can cause problems on websites unless they are dynamic. For example, I have my age in the little about me blurb in the sidebar. I made a little function to calculate my age so that I don’t have to go in every year on my birthday and add another year to my age. The Function function age($bMonth,$bDay,$bYear) {  $cMonth = date('n'); $cDay = date('j');…

Another busy weekend, so I’m a little late on my weekly link round-up from last week. Just a few links, but here it is: Creating The Perfect Portfolio Pretty good article discussing the ways to build a perfect portfolio. The key is to make sure you know your audience. What font says ‘Change’? Two type designers discuss the typography used in the presidential candidates logos. I personally like O…

Yeah, so I am a little late with my weekly round-up from last week. Better late than never: The Power of a Bruised Ego I view the source of almost every site I go to. Standards mode is the new quirks mode Roger gives a good round-up of this whole Doctype switching non-sense that had been going on last week. How To Build A Facebook Application I haven’t built one, but this seemed like a good get…

How to Fix So it appears that there are two different fixes. One of them completely removes FireShot, and the second leaves FireShot installed. Both appear to work. Fix #1 Uninstall FireShot 0.31 Restart Firefox Enter about:config in the address bar Search for any variables that contain fireshot (I think this is the one that is causing the problem: general.useragent.extra.fireshot) Right click on…

It is great when you can take situations in your everyday life and relate them to the web. First, I am going to discuss a well designed product with one major problem that I used to use daily. Then I will discuss how we can use experiences from our every day lives to make the web a better place. So, my parents have this Bosch dishwasher that they bought a few years ago. It really was awesome. It…