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  • 10.27.06 I Heart Not Microsoft posted in Web Design

    Jeffrey Zeldman writes in IE7 CSS tweak show and tell: Once IE7 gains critical mass, a lot of our current thinking about ems and pixels and such will go out the window. I’ll write about that soon, probably on A List Apart. Funny how Microsoft has the power to change all the good that was coming […]

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  • 10.19.06 Regurgitating the IE7 News posted in Web Design

    I’m not going to write about it because you can’t go anywhere on the net right now without hearing about it. Well, I’m sure there are some places. Here’s what snook.ca had to say about IE7 being released: It’s official folks: IE7 for XP has been released. You can also read more about […]

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  • 10.3.06 Firefox Tips and Tricks from Circle Six posted in Geekery

    How much do you love Firefox? Do you know all the tricks in the book? Circle Six has put together a few of our favorites to help you get the most out of browsing with Firefox. browsers» extensions» firefox» Geekery» Google» hacks» javascript» plugins» search» tips» tricks»

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  • 10.2.06 Firefox and Web Design: Top 5 Extensions posted in Web Design

    This is more or less a “Top Firefox Addons” post, but pretty much our entire selection of Firefox extensions are geared towards web design/development, so that’s what I’m calling it. I couldn’t really do what I do without Firefox, or at least it would be considerably more difficult. While I have much […]

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  • 8.28.06 Internet Explorer 7 fixed up? Nope. posted in Web Design

    A recent post on the IE Blog seemed hopeful. They’ve made a lot of fixes recently. But reports from beta testers, found in the comments of the post, were discouraging, as what IE claimed to have fixed was still erratic and fundamentally broken, and there are still major parts of the CSS1 […]

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  • 8.24.06 A little news and some reviews and… posted in Random Thoughts, General

    I’m working on a new Wordpress theme for the site. I originally began with K2 as a base and started modifying from there, but there ended up being so many mods that I eventually scrapped it and started coding from scratch. I’m on my third revision of the code and my second […]

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  • 8.22.06 More IE7 ranting… posted in Web Design, Geekery

    So, despite some retractions and an updated post from Paul Thurrott, I still have this burning question: “Why do we need Internet Explorer 7?” The major reason for the release, according to Bill Gates keynote and the IE Blog is security, security, security. But they keep responding to questions about standards by […]

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  • 8.20.06 Firefox wins at Circle Six! posted in Geekery

    Based on my mint stats for the last 1000 some unique visitors, we’ve got 52% using Firefox and 24% using Explorer. I like my demographics! While I’ve admittedly gotten good at designing for Internet Explorer, and it takes me a lot less time to make things work, it still feels dirty to […]

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  • 8.16.06 The self-imposed limits of Web 2.0 posted in General

    The professed goal of Web 2.0 is to create a more desktop like interface for the web. So what possibilities and limitations does that impose on interface design using AJAX and web browsers? The obvious limitations are the standard conventions of the web. We have to have conveniences like obvious submit buttons on forms […]

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  • 8.10.06 Javascript and SEO: The new school. posted in Web Design

    DOM Scripting is changing the old rules of SEO. I was raised to believe that javascript hindered a sites readability by search engine spiders and should be avoided at all costs. Of course, I come from an era where images were sliced apart and held together with tables, and rollovers were created […]

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