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• 11.28.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Presentation posted in Geekery

  Whether you’re a designer or a software engineer or in some area between the hemispheres of the brain, there are multitudes of reasons why you would want to make a clear and professional presentation, be it a screencast, a software manual, or a quick mockup for a client. These are a few of my favorite tools for making presentations that impress without breaking too much of a sweat. I’m saving online tools until a later part of this series, so the cool online slideshow and PowerPoint replacements are going to wait a bit…

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• 9.13.07 My Biggest Work Yet posted in Design

  Well, when I’m not trying to write software, I’m usually designing. I just got pictures back from California of my biggest published piece to date. It’s a barricade for a shop installation, and I’ve forgotten the measurements because I got the job at 9:30pm and it was due by 11am the next day. But you can see in the picture the scale next to a human being. I’m finishing up a 24′x12′ billboard for another client right now, so that will rival it for large scale design…

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• 7.17.07 HTML Indexing Gets Better posted in Web Design

  I started discovering more and more mistakes in the original HTML indexing bundle. I ended up rewriting a lot of it and adding a lot of new functionality. It now recognizes a plethora of different formats for anchor tags, including empty anchors before headers, inside of headers, anchors with link text, etc. And there’s a new auto-indexing command that creates a hierarchical index. There’s even one that scans for headers and adds the anchor tags FOR you. It can’t get much easier than that. Let me know if it works. The docs from the bundle follow, download link at the end…

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• 7.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 7.13.07 HTML Indexing Bundle posted in Web Design

  The HTML Indexing commands have evolved into a full bundle for TextMate. For those of you who told me the original commands saved you some time on your last project, this should make the next one a breeze. The shot on the left shows a quick preview of the new auto-index with summaries command, which scans for all anchors and pulls the first 10 words following them to create an index using a definition list with even/odd classnames on the lines for styling. Download is at the end of the post. Here’s a rundown from the included help file…

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• 7.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 7.11.07 Quick HTML Anchors in TextMate posted in Web Design

  I had to make a couple of long indexes today, so after a couple of tries and some input from the TextMate list, I came up with a pair of commands for creating named HTML anchors in TextMate…

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• 6.5.07 Fine Tuned 404 posted in Web Design

  As part of the Circle Six redesign, I culled the portfolio and in the process broke just about every link that Google had indexed. A new sitemap and some redirect pages are taking care of SEO, but in the interim, a lot of visitors are getting 404 pages. So I borrowed a tip from the blog and added a suggest feature to the C6 404 page…

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• 6.1.07 Semantic Details posted in Web Design

  When we did our Circle Six redesign, it was important to me that we go out of our way to make this our most semantic and accessible site yet. Clean, semantic code was the goal, and here are some details that we considered that you may want to keep in mind for your next project…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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