Last Ten Blog Entries

  • Photoshop to Website - July 01, 2008
    It’s been over a year and a half since my book hit the shelves, but I am still getting a lot of email feedback. I’ve gotten 4 so far in the last week. I can’t really complain because most of it is very positive, but a lot of email means a lot of time spent answering questions. While every email...
  • Refresh Columbia - June 13, 2008
    It’s hot right now in Columbia, South Carolina. The recorded high this week was 100° and it’s only June! For web designers and developers though, something refreshing is on the way. I’m not talking about a rafting trip down the Saluda - though that does sound refreshing - I’m referring to a new community of individuals who aim to invigorate...
  • Paint Our House - May 31, 2008
    Ames and I have been talking about painting our house for a while but never decided on a color scheme. This weekend we looked through some of the color books from Home Depot and Lowes but wanted to see what they would actually look like on the house. After Photshopping them in on a picture of our home we decided...
  • Night Mode - May 23, 2008
    This is one of those seemingly simple things that I wanted to do for one of our client sites that turned into a slight obsession because it seems like an obvious and increasingly necessary feature. I’d like to see night-mode as an option for online mapping. I know that customized embedded maps are possible by overlaying tiles as described in...
  • CSS Blunders - May 20, 2008
    I like to complain about browser inconsistency and rendering bugs as much as every other front-end developer, but it’s fairly common that the issues I’m experiencing are PEBKAC rather than IE induced. Now I know these won’t apply to most of you perfect coders out there, but I’m betting that at least a couple will ring true. Typos My most...
  • Orange Juice Snobs - May 02, 2008
    Ames and I are both fairly easygoing and don’t turn our noses up to many things. If there is one thing we are persnickety about though, it’s Orange Juice. You know the stuff they serve at the continental breakfast buffets at most hotels? Horrible. Almost every single OJ available the grocery store? Blech! Even among the “Not from Concentrate, Fresh...
  • Freehand - April 21, 2008
    As many of you already know, I fell down some stairs and broke 2 bones in my hand a couple days before before SXSW. Well, now it’s the 21st of April and I just got the cast off. That’s a long time. I thought I’d break it down for you a little bit. Pun intended. Warning: The last picture w/...
  • Life - April 17, 2008
    The image above is the third in a series of collages from a childhood sketchbook. A few weeks ago, Ames and I drove down to Orlando to see one of my best friends from college get married. While I was in town, I managed to find time one morning to head over to the UCF campus to check out...
  • Unclickable Links in IE - April 15, 2008
    As with most trades, there are some tricks about web design that you only learn through experience. Building complex layouts that avoid browser-specific hacks is certainly one of those tricks. Yes, there are some hard and fast rules you can teach new designers - like how IE version 6 and below screw up the box model - but there are...
  • Ten Years - March 31, 2008
    Update 4/5/08: Apparently while I was cheering on my wife, sister-in-law and friends at the BridgeRun, my site went naked a bit early. Thanks to the person who let me know about my preemptive nudity. Update 4/2/08: Ok folks, show’s over, move along. WHAT? You really want the 90s April Fools version back? Just go back to the homepage and...

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