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I like this: “We’re working at building the most important communications network in history. What we do today matters”. Good read, things need to change.

Noah Stokes has written a fantastic article on the State of the Web Design Profession. Well said.

I have done JavaScript text resizers a couple of different ways before, but I think I found my favorite way on a recent project. In previous projects, I have messed around with determining the current font size and adjusting it appropriately. But, in my opinion, simplifying things has made it a much better implementation. If you want to skip right to the demo, feel free. View Demo Disclaimer L…

I guess it is time to come back from my little hiatus to actually write a blog post. I recently moved, so I have been busy with getting settled and working on freelance projects as well. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that I have recently become obsessed with ExpressionEngine. I completed a project at work using it, and I realized that I could have done something much more effic…

Thank you everyone for participating in the Packt Book Giveaway. It was interesting to see how many more people were interested in the jQuery book compared to the others. Now, on to the winners… The Choosing an Open Source CMS book was won by Eric D. Greene with his comment on the blog article. The WordPress 2.7 Complete book was won by Adrian Turner with his Twitter entry. The Learning jQuery 1.…

I definitely don’t categorize myself as a designer because there is no way I can create such amazing work as this. It’s fantastic to see the very different directions that Mike went in before reaching the final design.

I love this way of thinking. A successful environment is one where you are able to tell people when they’re full of crap.

I am pleased to announced that I have 3 Packt books to giveaway: Learning jQuery 1.3, WordPress 2.7 Complete, & Choosing an Open Source CMS. Entering to win one of these books is very simple, and you can enter in two different ways. But first, let me provide a little more detail about the books. Learning jQuery 1.3 To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScri…

Everyone is freaking out about the XHTML 2 Working Group disbanding at the end of the year. Relax people! Jeremy Keith helps to explain why nobody should worry.

Seriously, I can’t go a day without reading about someone complaining about IE6. Yes, we all know it’s support is terrible. Yes, we know that Microsoft sat around and did nothing for 5 years. But look, they have stepped their game up, they have released 2 browser versions in 3 years. Yes, they are not up to par with more standards compliant browsers, but they are a major improvement over IE6. So…