Update 2/11/2010: Added support for Multiple Background Images Over a year ago I posted about the lack of a View Background Image option in Firefox when right-clicking on links. As a web designer, I use that context menu item on a regular basis, so for it to not be there…
Last week’s Refresh Columbia meetup was a lot of fun. We had nearly 30 people show up to hear 5 exciting lightning talks. I gave a presentation about how to stay connected to the web design community without drowning. Of course I added the disclaimer that I haven’t REALLY figured…
While I’d never heard this phrase before last weekend, Full of Win summarizes perfectly how I feel about this year’s Webmaster Jam Session. The schedule was packed with awesome talks by industry leaders I personally look up to – literally in the case of Todd Dominey & Garrett Dimon. There…
My last couple posts might indicate that I’ve been wasting a lot of time lately. Honestly though, I’ve been almost as busy as I was while writing the book. Here’s a quick rundown of my latest activities and upcoming engagements. Writing for Digital-Web After years of learning from and being…
You know you’ve always wanted to do this…but you never did. One package of Double Stuf Oreos has thirty-six cookies. Each cookie is “double stuffed” which means there is enough of the good stuff in there for seventy-two Oreo cookies. So what would you call it if you stacked all…
This is really random, but any date written out in mmddyy format could be used as a unique hexadecimal RGB color code. Today’s date for instance could be represented as #081508. Because of the linear and cyclical nature of time, I thought it would be interesting to see what a…
I have been quietly searching for this embarrassingly goofy photobooth polaroid for at least 2 years now. I included a low-res scan of it in the original amesnjas.com website, but that was back when Amy and I lived in Florida. Like the polaroid format itself, I was afraid the tangible…
I thought Google Street View was fairly entertaining when it launched last year, but it wasn’t all that exciting when you could only explore 5 cities. Ever since they added coverage here in Columbia though, I’ve been fascinated. Writing about how cool the service is doesn’t really do it justice….
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…