Up until about a month or so ago I had been working on local WordPress sites with the help of a fantastic little program called xampp. This program simply installs Apache, PHP, MySQL and PHP MyAdmin control panel automatically. For whatever reason just as I was about to embark on the adventure of making the [...]
Tags: apache, local web server, localhost, media queries, mysql, php, responsive styles, xamppThe more I work time I spend working on the web, creating sites for various reasons the more I see there are people who work on the web every day and can not write a single line of code to create a site. Fortunately the web is not all about complicated programing and making boxes and images [...]
When it comes to finishing something people are generally wired to think that finishing is a good thing. If you finish something, you can be done with it, you can feel a sense of accomplishment and most importantly you can move on. With almost all forms of projects finishing is a really good thing. Finished [...]
Tags: finished, finishing, launch, search engines, soft launchWell, I haven’t updated in a while so I thought I could make a quick post on my work in the web world and my life. a 10k app I had meant to make a bigger deal of this but, a couple months back my good friend James and I entered the 10k apart contest. [...]
Here and there I do a little pro-bono project as I imagine many web designer/developer types are prone to do. I am not sure what it is about the web but occasionally it demands of us our time and effort on something we know will never pay out. I don’t think you’d see the same [...]
I posted earlier last month about my excitement involving my chance to attend An Event Apart in Minneapolis this year. I just wanted to take a couple minutes and write my thoughts, impressions and opinions about the conference. As this was my first conference and I had heard so much about the quality (and of course the major [...]
So when I am not too busy on the weekend I’ll take a few hours to to sit down and work on a “just-for-fun” web project. Sometimes it is something for me, sometimes it is a learning project or a design project with no real aim, but recently my friend James Krantz and I have [...]
Tags: development, plugin, widget, wordpressI waited the full ten days for the shipping of A Book Apart’s first “brief book” HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. A Book Apart is a joint venture by Jeffery Zeldman, Mandy Brown and Jason Santa Maria dedicated to making short books, 90 pages in this case, for the folks on the front [...]
Tags: A Book Apart, HTML5, Jeremy KeithI have been looking for ways to improve my stylesheets ever since I started writing them. The first stylesheets I had written were disorganized, unstructured and when I look back at them I usually don’t like what I see in so many ways. Writing CSS is one thing, writing good CSS is another thing. I [...]
I sometimes get too caught up in code and wordpress and on and on with all the semicolons and brackets, functions, objects, variables and all the rest to remember that I enjoy and at times can be quite good at (if only in my mind) designing the web experience. Of course, I have been trying [...]
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