CSS By Design 

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Flash Catalyst - From what i can remember

Prior to this event, I had caught wind of Flash Catalyst two years prior when it was demoed under the codename “Thermo” at an Adobe MAX event over 2 and a half years ago in Chicago. At that point I had exuberance for the initiative that matched my slightly younger age, so attending this event put on by the Seattle Graphic Guild made sense as I enthusiastically registered once I caught...

Feb 25th

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Your site mobilized

After discovering the iSites today, a site where you can create simple mobile apps for use with iPhone and Android through the use of RSS feeds, I wondered after my initial interest…why an app? It’s not that I’m fooling myself into thinking that apps aren’t popular for any smartphone let alone the iPhone, but wouldn’t it be just as easy to have a web-based,...

Jan 21st

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Experimental Jetset on design discourse

“I would have kerned this logo in a completely different way”… well, of course you would have kerned it in a completely different way. But what’s the point moaning about that in public? We all have different graphic languages; that’s the beauty of it. Why spend so much energy on what are basically small stylistic differences? I’m assuming this is Danny VanDungen, but can’t be certain....

Jan 11th

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Bad name, but huge benefits - Zen Coding/SparkUp

I was stumbling across the web as I do on most days recently and came across something that I hope will change my life in terms of writing HTML and CSS. Enter Zen Coding. Developed by some brain-busting Russian fellows its an series of extensions you can add on to your text editors to speed up your development time. Zen Coding works with HTML selectors, CSS Properties and the partially...

Jan 11th

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Linking a button tag

I’m simultaneously the tortoise and the hare of website development. I grasp concepts quickly, but tend to forget the simplest things just as quick. So for all my fellow brethren out there who feel dumb as hell sometimes, but then raise your fists and shout to the heavens after accomplishing the most simple thing in HTML/CSS dev, this one is for you. Defining/Linking a <button> ...

Dec 30th