Last week I asked this question on Twitter: “Dear #lazyweb: What does everyone use for site-wide scans for broken links?” I was curious because we have a couple ginormous sites we’ve created recently at work that we wanted to scan. I got back a couple recommendations for the Mac app,…
Here at Cyberwoven, everybody has a little sheet of paper on their desk that lists all of the office phone extensions. That little sheet of paper is useful, but very limited in the amount of information it can convey. Many of us in the office have iPhones, so I thought…
Time to rethink my old method of displaying textbox hints with background images. That method still works fine for compact login forms, but what if we have several textboxes on a page with different hints that may need changing. I don’t want to have to create/maintain images for each textbox…
My wife has been a deal hunter & coupon clipper for a long time now, but I’m still very much a couponing noob. The little bit of insight I have into the crazy world of coupon shopping has come from trips to the grocery store with Ames. Ever since we…
It was about 3 months ago that Jason Dew of the Columbia Ruby Brigade contacted Refresh Columbia to see if we were interested in putting together a web conference with our fellow web design & development groups. After a bunch of lunch meetings, and a lot of work from everyone…
Along with being an amazing baker & an engineering genius, my wife also has a knack for saving money. Over the last 6 months or so, she has really gotten into clipping coupons and matching up weekly deals at the grocery store with manufacturer/store coupons. This has saved us over…
I received a very strange email from my contact form last night. The subject was “For your blogging consideration” and only “www.AmericanArtifactMovie.com” was left in the message field. For the record, 9 times out of 10 I assume strange, generic contact form messages are just spam. Not knowing what to…
Logical or creative? Developer or designer? Left-brained or right-brained? While the dichotomy of hemispheric strengths and weaknesses is rooted more in myth than science, I’m constantly reminded of my own aptitude imbalances and often find myself reading about the topic. While I was eating lunch today I came across a…
I tried hard to take great notes, snap lots of pictures & tweet all the highlights of SXSW this year so I could come home, connect all the dots, and pull together a great blog post of my experience. Instead, I came home and poured all my post-conference energy and…
One of the many exciting things I learned about at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference was the launch of a curriculum project from the Web Standards Project. The WaSP InterAct Curriculum is a set of courses for budding web professionals divided into 6 disciplines: Foundations Front-end Development Design…