…and the number one reason why you should pay for stock photography: So you can get rid of that pesky watermark. Here’s a screenshot of a flash ad I spotted on allrecipes.com for the magic diet pill vendor curbyourcravings.com. If you look really closely, you’ll see something other than a…
Our shiny new Adobe Creative Suite 3 boxes arrived here at work yesterday and we while Micah was upgrading, something about the installer menu art immediately caught our attention. I’ll leave it up to you, dear reader, to let me know what you see in this image. As far as…
As the days grow longer and flowers begin to burst forth from the tawny winter landscape, I am reminded of one thing — it’s time to GET NAKED! As nonbelligerent as I am about validation and semantic markup, it makes me grin with mischievously nerdy glee when I think about…
Friday March 9th, 2007 After a long “morning” of driving, flying, transfering, cabs, and registration lines, I’m finally here in Austin, sitting in a conference room at the very first panel of SxSW – “The Real Story Behind Snakes on a Plane”. I’m not sure what this panel is all…
I spent most of the day Saturday driving around to each of the Barnes & Nobles, Books-A-Millions, and Waldenbooks in the greater Columbia area handing out book-themed business cards to the store managers, and asking them to put a few copies of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design on their…
Although I haven’t talked much about the details, it’s no secret that I was working on a design book for SitePoint. Most of my friends and relatives have been asking me “How’s the book going?” and “Are you done yet?” since I started the first chapter back in early April….
For anybody who sits in front of a computer all day, it’s important to get exercise during non-work hours. With that said, I’ve done very little to make working out a critical part of my week. If anything even remotely requires attention, exercise is the first thing to get dropped….
When I first heard about Microformats, I was a little confused about all the excitement. I may be a technically minded person (sometimes) but the idea of making information more machine readable didn’t make me bounce around with glee. Nevertheless, I felt obligated to do my part in advancing the…
Oh my what a game! With all the hype and gloomy predictions, I honestly thought Ohio State was going to give the Gators a good fight. When the Buckeyes returned the opening kick for a field goal in the first few seconds of the game it looked like they had…