Today, I helped a friend get some nasty HTML and CSS whipped into line. He mentioned paying me to give him some “CSS lessons.” This got my mind working. I have had thoughts about doing some tutorials for the past year or so. I have a tendency to be the one people ask when they…
Category: Design & Dev
Rasterbation
No, that isn’t a typo… I mean RASTERBATION. And no, this isn’t a dirty topic. I’ve known about the Rasterbator service for a while now, but only recently did I start telling people about it. Basically, the Rasterbator is a web service that allows you to upload a relatively small (under 1MB, I believe) image,…
Making custom RSS feeds in WP
I wish I could say that making custom RSS feeds that are generated by WordPress was easy… Unfortunately, it isn’t. After much work and scouring the WP Wiki, I’ve managed to create an RSS feed from my new “peep this” current links section (which will probably work better once the redesign is unveiled) on the…
Typography geek
OOOOOOOOOOOO… this is just way too cool: Ballpark Script Typeface. Now how to justify the expense? I’m such a giant geek…
Personalized Postage Revisited
So, I ran across something new in regards to the whole personalized postage debacle I mentioned a month or so ago. Stamps.com, the purveyors of personal postage, or stamps you can order with whichever picture you please, announced new limitations upon what pictures are now deemed acceptable. Due to some folks messing about with edgy…
A Ford man is seriously impressed with Chevrolet
I noticed a quick mention of this over at mezzoblue (who got the heads up from Digital Web). American automative giant Chevrolet have just unveiled a brand new website, one that was designed in XHTML 1.0 Strict (the same “edgy” markup I use on this site). Not only was it done in a strict, standardised…
I Hate Netscape 4 – V2.0
So, yes… I hate Netscape 4 with a passion. But, just for the hell of it (I get bored, okay?), I started up Classic and fired up my copy of Netscape Communicator. I guess you could say I was curious how a lot of today’s sites hold up in the archaic browser. Not surprisingly, most…
Now taking freelance work
Well, this is hardly good news. Several months ago, my friend Tyler and I decided to join forces (much like in Voltron) and form a small web-design firm. I had done work via my codeartist design pseudonym, and he had done likewise with his SugarHouse Design name. We settled on SHD as it had some…
Personalized Postage
I was reading Wired today, and they featured a story on Stamps.com and their new “personalized photo stamps” program, called PhotoStamps. As you can imagine, this could be either quite cool (and useful for us design types) or extremely cheesy and lame. I’m excited, because I can picture getting stamps made with my company logo…
I hate Netscape 4
For some unknown (and for that matter, unknowable) reason, there are still enough people out there using that curmudgeon of days gone by, Netscape 4, for me to attempt to make a site that looks decent in such an archaic browser. Or so people would lead me to believe. And so I try. And every…