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• 8.27.06 Higher Learning and Web Standards. posted in Web Design

  The Minneapolis College of Art and Design homepage is entirely CSS P and standards compliant! This discovery was the result of curiosity sparked over my weekend there… I was a graduate of the Interactive Media program and in 2000 when I graduated, we had all been taught table-based layout. So I wondered […]

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• 8.24.06 Initial Expanse Review posted in Web Design

  Alright, I bought a copy of Expanse to run on my test server. I have some comments (yes, I’ll post to the forum as well…). These pertain to using Expanse as a general CMS for a client site, and may not apply to using it for it’s apparent intended purpose (by artists, […]

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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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• 8.22.06 Choosing an appropriate CMS posted in Web Design

  Here’s a quick soliloquy on the virtues and values of various open-source CMS software packages, along with their downsides. This is not intended as a final say, or a one-size-fits-all guide to CMS’s. This is simply my experience and my personal choices. But I was explaining them to someone else the […]

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• 8.22.06 Bad-web-design-hydra sprouts new head posted in Web Design

  There have been posters put up around my city touting web-pages for $50. They come from a Wisconsin based web design “company” called Bat Cave Productions. They should have stayed in their cave, along with the TemplateMonster templates that they’re reselling. This kind of poor web design, with no regards for standards or originality […]

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• 8.20.06 Building a coffeehouse from WordPress posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I’ve recently discovered that it’s relatively simple to turn WordPress into a CMS using basic Template Tags and page templates. This isn’t new information by any means, and is something WordPress was meant to be able to do. But I’m planning to strip down and package my source files when I’m finished […]

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• 8.17.06 Lusting for Amazon-like powers. posted in Web Design

  I like to spend money. Amazon has a plethora of clever devices designed to exploit this innate desire. And I drool at the idea of having any of this power for myself. I have set up the “recently viewed” options for clients. I have set up the “cross sell”, also […]

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• 8.13.06 AJAX: The argument for standards posted in Web Design

  Some of the reading I’ve been doing lately has made me realize something I had taken for granted. AJAX couldn’t exist without the standards that I’m always going on about. AJAX calls depend on CSS classes and ID’s to make changes to the structure of a webpage. That’s the entire idea […]

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• 8.13.06 A simplified photoblog. posted in Web Design

  I finished a prototype of a new photoblog for Jeremey Bot yesterday. It fuses Zenphoto and Wordpress to create a (hopefully) seamless integration of gallery and blog. The way I have it set up, he never has to write an entry. The only entry in the blog uses a tag that […]

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• 8.11.06 Web-volution, the broken link. posted in Web Design

  I have this dream of starting a new online forum/publication of my own. I want it to be about the dreamers who are taking the web to the next level. The people who don’t accept the reality that is 90% of the web, but are willing to make a difference in design […]

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