I’m a customer of Aldi locally, since it’s great to go in a store and not have to walk a mile to find the three things you need when you’re in a hurry, unlike the big box supermarkets that I hate with a passion for that reason. Aldi in Easton PA is a friendly place […]

The IE 8 Beta is out.
There is already buzz about it, since IE8 passes Acid 2, supposedly. Of course, that’s a step behind already, since Acid 3 was just released. And according to the Slashdotters, IE8 only scores 17 on Acid 3, compared to the most recent stable version of Firefox, which scores 50 on […]

In the wake of all the hub-bub surrounding the passing of the Torch in the upper corporate echelons of Ebay, and the unwelcome Ebay Fee changes that came with it that resulted in an Ebay Seller Boycott, what hasn’t emerged is a clear alternative to Ebay. Well, I have one to suggest.
Most of the […]

Sometimes it’s the small details in a web design that make it distinctive, whether it be icons or bullets or some other small element used as a bar between articles or posts on a blog, or combined into a border between elements. And there is no better way to create these elements than using one […]

We who design websites and test in multiple browsers need to note that an Auto Update is scheduled for February 12th to upgrade all IE users to IE7.
The reason this is important to WebDevs is that many corporate networks will not be installing this upgrade, so we will still have to keep testing in IE6. […]

More than once I’ve had a client send me a scan of a logo, or hand me a piece of stationery or whatever, and say they want that bit there at the top of their website, and they also want other things to use the same font. My next question is invariably “What’s the name […]

In learning more about the interface between the frontend (xhtml/css) of the websites I design and the backend (usually php), I’ve had to do quite a bit of poking around on the web and have accumulated some pretty good bookmarks on PHP, many of which are tutorial sites for using php, and some of which […]

A List Apart has a great article on what’s coming in HTML 5, which throws out a lot of the current tag syntax and gives us more semantic structural markup via the DOM. It will also allow a more streamlined markup with a lot of cruft cut out and simplified. There will be a lot […]

I’m a subscriber to Harald Heim’s The Plugin Site Newsletter, which always has links to new graphics tools, and since I’m an addict it feeds my addiction quite nicely.
In his latest newsletter, in the free plugins section, he mentioned a couple new plugins from Xero Graphics, which I checked out, but what really caught my […]

Sometimes it’s easier to import information into a web application than it is to enter it by hand. If you have access to a free database you can sometimes manipulate the information into a form that can be easily imported into the application of your choice, saving you hours, and sometimes days, of data entry.
Some […]

I just got done reading the SiteProNews Newsletter, which this month features an article on Fonts and market branding. I won’t deny that there’s great information here, and in general the content is high quality. But it’s just as obvious to me that Erin Ferree, the author, is first and foremost, a print weenie. What […]

Right now I’m working on coding a site into WordPress that was designed by a graphics designer who is, from what I can see, a print designer. It was done for another gal who was originally going to do the coding slice and dice for Macromedia Contribute, using a table layout, but for various reasons […]

Yeah, I know. You’re shaking your head looking at my October Pink site color and wondering what all this Green Web Designer stuff is about.
Well, it’s about Green as in Climate Change, and trying like hell not to take more from the earth than I put back into it. I’ve still got a ways to […]

My favorite Norwegian Cow has a great article that wraps up in a nice package the use of CSS display table properties to create equal height columns, and the workarounds that he’s developed to make both IE6 and 7 understand what all the other browsers get with few problems. Georg’s method allows us to develop […]

Okay, so it is a bit SHOCKING! I ended up with Schiaparelli Pink, since it was the easiest to deploy without a complete image remake and redesign. Talk about shaking things up! Wowza.
If you want to go pink yourself, and you have a wordpress blog, do check out my Kickass-OctoberPink Theme for WordPress. There are […]