Should You Document Your HTML?
Anyone who knows anything about my development style knows I’m a huge stickler for clean, semantic code. It kills me when a client asks me to edit an existing site that’s filled with improper tabs, run-on coding, extra blank lines and divs name “div45673435534″. I’ve been so proud of the development community lately, because I’ve...
Read more…Why You Should Buy That iPad, Even If You Own An iPhone
When the iPad was first launched, I was pretty disappointed. To me, it looked like nothing more than a giant iPhone and since I had just bought the iPhone 3Gs and a new iMac, I figured the iPad would be a waste of money. That was until I started hearing other developers and designers talking...
Read more…What is The Future of Web Development?
What we do on the Web changes every day. The web development industry is constantly evolving. While we may not be able to tell the day-to-day changes while it’s happening, it’s easy for us to look back to the past few months and see that a lot of things we do now are much different...
Read more…8 Things Every Geek’s Office Must Have
I’m currently renovating an upstairs bedroom to become my new office. My current office (minus my new puters) is a sad, dark and scary place. The new room has the best light in the whole house and is quite charming. I’m going for a calm, cottage, Pottery Barn look, but I’m also wanting to include...
Read more…Design Isn’t Visual
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among average designers that keeps them just that – average. The trend has been to focus design time on everything visual, to make the website as pretty, cool or as visually appealing as possible. While it’s certainly important for a website to be visually appealing, real design isn’t really visual...
Read more…Progressive Enhancement: What It Is & How To Use It
There’s plenty of controversy between developers about whether or not we should continue to support IE6, especially with the addition of CSS3 and HTML5. However, no matter what side of the IE6 fence you’re on, you should understand that a website cannot, and should not, look exactly the same in every browser. Why is this?...
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