tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53544447511092418792011-04-21T17:31:16.276-07:00Dustinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5354444751109241879.post-83854276066758227642008-07-21T17:27:00.001-07:002008-07-21T17:29:29.806-07:00

I created a simple png logo for a site. It worked great in FF but, of course, didn't quite work out in Internet Explorer. I could have just called out a .gif for IE but I was using a drop shadow on the text in the logo so the .gif would have been transparent except it would have placed a white background around the drop shadow, making it look icky. So a quick upload and some CSS fixed the prob.

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All too often I have to speak to clients for extended periods of time. For the most part, they have no idea what I'm talking about, which can be great for me if I ever mess up or forget to do something... they have no idea how big or little it is. And I can always talk over their head just for fun! But some days, some horrible, horrible days, I have to teach a client something. Teach. Client.

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I've been working closely with an excellent design to create a site for a new division in the company I'm currently working with. Nevada Corporate Filings is a new branch of the Business Development Institute here in Las Vegas, Nevada that does Corporate Filings in Nevada... No matter what state you or your business is located, you can incorporate with us or create an LLC, LLLP, Living Trust and

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I styled up a marketing review form for my company the other day, a lot of the code and CSS Selecors (ID and CLASS) were produced using Javascript. What this was doing - and keep in mind that I don't really know javascript so forgive me if I sound like a fool or if I say something that is a 'given' - was populating new id's that would say something like UrlInput1, UrlInput2, UrlInput3, and so on.

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I am reading up on XSLT/Xpath/Xquery/XML Namespaces and other such greatness that makes up XML...at least I think they do!?!? I'm just kicking off on all this but it does seem like it'll be easy to grasp once put in practice a few times. First thing is Namespaces and an important solution to a potential conflict in names and the content they carry. The example used at w3schools uses 2 tables,

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I created a simple png logo for a site. It worked great in FF but, of course, didn't quite work out in Internet Explorer. I could have just called out a .gif for IE but I was using a drop shadow on the text in the logo so the .gif would have been transparent except it would have placed a white background around the drop shadow, making it look icky. So a quick upload and some CSS fixed the prob.

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I've been looking back at some of my old CSS and realize that while it is getting the job done, it looks like crap! Not what the code yields but how the code is formatted. Since I've been in the world of web design for some time now, but am still relatively new, I thought it time to clean up my act. I went perusing the styles of some of the great CSS guys and this is what I learned from looking

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One of my favorite techniques for building site credibility and getting higher placements on major search engines is utilizing In-Site Link Popularity. Essentially, what in-site link popularity is, is a way of arranging links through out the pages in your site to link to the optimized pages in your site (pages that you want ranked on search engines).Links to your optimized pages placed smartly

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Hey, wanna know what's better than using CSS to add a drop-shadow to an image?? Applying the drop-shadow to the image in Photoshop! I personally just don't understand the point in creating a second image to play as the drop-shadow when you can simply apply that to the image in Photoshop. Unless, of course, you have some crazy, multi-color background and you HAVE to have a jpeg. I'm too exhausted

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SiteGrinder is a commercial plug-in made by Media Lab Inc. for Adobe Photoshop that allows users who are skilled at Adobe Photoshop to create multi-page websites without knowledge of the underlying web technologies such as HTML, CSS, javascript, and Document Object Models.It uses an algorithm that employs artificial intelligence techniques to determine what image files, html files, and css files

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The way to make the complex feel painless is to design with flow in mind. By designing a site that is fluid and intuitive and inspires flow, you help new users get up-to-speed more quickly, reduce the chance that existing users leave your site to switch to another and create users that evangelize your site to other people. That results in more users, increased activity, and greater awareness of

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Since we don’t have CSS constants yet, we need to figure out some way to get a quick reference of “variables” we are using. In web development colors and typography can often be considered as “constants” — fixed values that are used throughout the code multiple times. You can describe color codes used in your layout. For a given color, you can display sections of your site which are using this

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Sometimes a helping hand is all you need to finish up that damn project, or just get through those horrendous tasks that keep kicking you down like a Krispy Kreme truck driver making a late delivery to the 7-11 next to Jenny Craig’s. Because information is key, and sometimes you lose your keys, the great folks over at smashingmagazine.com compiled a list of said helping hands; cheat sheets for

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While pagination is rather easy to add to a site there is still an abundant of folks just not getting it right, or even doing it at all. Since I am not the pagination expert I won't be going in depth about the how-to's but instead I'll point you in th right direction. Faruk Ates has written a great article on Pagination where he defines 7 very important do's and dont's.

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So, you’ve researched your meta keywords. You’ve kept them to no more than three phrases per page. You’ve focused the title, meta description, and H1 tags to the keyword sets without going overboard. Your code is lean and mean—no crummy JavaScript or tables. You’ve gone content-crazy and have a respectable mass of content constantly refreshing on your site. You have a juicy site map. You’ve done

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