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Go-L computers
Why have I never seen these before? If I could afford them, these might be enough to make me switch back to PC. Check out their displays. Go-L computers
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Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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Common Web Design Mistakes
A nice list of 18 or so common Web development mistakes. (plus some user submitted ones). If you are a Web developer, read this list. If you make these mistakes, LEARN HOW TO FIX THEM! Part of being a professional is keeping your skillset and knowledge base up-to-date.
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Web Design From Scratch
A great article about where to start if you are an aspiring Web designer (a nice refresher if you are an experienced Web Designer) Web Design from scratch
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CSS based rollover image navigation, with transparency support.
All Web designers like image-based rollover navigation right? (I don’t anymore, the java-not-script/tag-soup combinations of code usually make it completely inaccessible) Well, then along came Pixy’s fast CSS rollovers to save the day. Here is a great improvement on that concept: Pixy Rollovers with the ability to use transparent PNG’s Beautiful.
Link Post
Image Rotation
A List Apart has two handy articles on how to make a very simple and clean image rotator for your Web site. The first one is a very simple image rotation script in PHP. The second is a bit more complex, but more feature rich image rotation script also in PHP. Very handy.
How-To
Color Schemes from Photographs
One of the hardest parts of graphic design for me is choosing a color scheme. That’s why I usually stick to grays with a highlight color. (mattandnancy.org). It all gets a lot easier when you remember that God is the ultimate painter. A quick way to a good color scheme? Take the color scheme from […]
Essay
Search Engine Optimization
One of my hobbies is Search Engine Optimization. I am trying to keep this page in the top 5 on a google search for “Heerema”. I am competing with Heerema Group, an international engineering firm, and Heerema Company, another large American engineering company. Isn’t ironic then, that I ignore one of the major things google […]
Commentary
Renegade Redesign
There was an interesting article in Wired News yesterday: Changing the Face of Web Surfing. Though I like the title “renegade redesign” better. Nutshell: Web designers (like me) who care about the fact that everyone should be able to see a Web site, are creating accessible versions of web sites they use that aren’t currently […]
Commentary
Internet Explorer ‘too risky’ says Businessweek
I’m about a week behind in posting this (I got lazy), but I thought I’d put it here for posterity. Businessweek columnist Stephen Wildstrom says that Internet Explorer is too risky to use In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws […]
Announcement
Not Our Home Sidebar Project
I have and idea. It probably isn’t original or all that innovative, but here goes: Objective: create a script that will organize the “blog roll” on NotOurHome.com (or any other site using that set of links) by whoever posted most recently. Also, it will only include a person on the link list if they have […]
Quick Take
Inverted Tabs
Also handy for CSS tabs: inverted tabs
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CSS Sliding Doors meet Image Sprites
Muy muy useful. Sliding Doors Meets Image Sprites I’m not gonne really explain this one as I just am posting it here so I won’t forget about it. But if you make Web sites, and like/want the whole tabbed navigation thing, this is pretty cool.