A few days ago, I was a bundle of stress. See, I’m about to take a trip overseas which means I had two weeks worth of work to plan and do, as well as articles to write, clients to contact, work to delegate, as well as home duties and more. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
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In my agency, we are having more requests for Facebook work now than ever before. In speaking with other freelancers and creative firms, it seems I’m not alone. So you’ve been asked to put a Facebook page together for a client. You’ve seen a few pages for other businesses that […]
Firefox’s rapid release schedule has not been the success Mozilla hoped. Most web developers agree it’s good for HTML5 feature evolution but it’s not without problems: Add-on compatibility. Most of us use extensions which cannot keep up with Firefox’s development progress. Increased effort. The majority of IT departments must test […]
ShareThis Email PDF Print Maryland web design agency, Groove Commerce Launches another ecommerce website. “The initial discovery phase helped us understand the driving goals behind this Magento ecommerce design” Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) September 08, 2011 Groove Commerce is proud to announce the launch of the new E.C. Kraus website. E.C. […]
In the previous post of this series .NET to Ruby: The Ruby Environment, we went through the fundamental tools that made up Ruby. If you recall we talked about running Ruby on the command line, using IRB, we wrote our first Hello World program, and figured out what was going […]
It sounds so easy, but getting paid can feel like pulling teeth sometimes. These are the basics — the essentials — of getting paid the amount you invoiced, on time, every time. 1. Outline your payment terms in the project estimate Show clients you’re serious about invoicing from the get-go. […]
Devin Wenig is trading in his East Coast neckties for a more casual West Coast dress code. And what better place to sell those ties than on eBay, his new employer? Wenig is eBay’s new President of Global Marketplaces Business, a position that has been vacant for a year after […]
Using colors in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is easy. However, it’s often necessary to programmatically generate colors, i.e. you need a color which is 20% brighter than #123 or 10% darker than #abcdef. CSS3 provides a great solution: HSL. Rather than using hex or RGB colors, you can set the […]
By Jason Beaird 6th Sep 2011 General, Layout Inspiration 0 In comparison to the fixed-versus-fluid debate, the argument about designing for particular screen resolutions has been quite tame these past few years. When designers say that a site is designed, or optimized, for a particular screen resolution, they’re actually talking […]