August, 2006

Aug 30th, 2006

Are CSS Hacks Necessary? Hint: I Don’t Have the Answer

As web designers, we are stuck with the fact that not every browser resolves style sheets the same way. Regardless we are expected to come up with code that appears and functions the same whether visitors are using IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari, or the next hot browser we don’t even know about yet. The [...]

Aug 23rd, 2006

Daniel Swiecki Interview: Version Control for the Web

I was first exposed to Daniel Swiecki when I came across his blog. Several months had passed before I noticed that he is still in high school. Someone barely half my age was making intelligent, well-constructed points about technology. Yet, the Internet’s role as an equalizer is one of its greatest strengths. Everyone’s voice is [...]

Aug 22nd, 2006

Carnival of the Web #3

The Future of the Web has released edition #3 of Carnival of the Web. Whatever Jesse’s criteria are for including a post, I made the cut again with Leaving an Audit Trail In Your Database. There’s quite a bit this month about JavaScript, both technical tips and some big picture philosophy on how it should [...]

Aug 16th, 2006

Breaking the News To Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Customers

What most clients want to hear about search engine optimization is that a few hours adding some keywords to their site will rocket them to the number one result on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN for any and all searches that contain their product or service. In some industries that was possible 10 years ago. I [...]

Aug 14th, 2006

Feed Change

Up until this morning, the feed for this blog was in “summary” mode. I hadn’t put much thought into how the feed was being sent out. Once I did, I couldn’t think of a good reason not to offer the full feed for anyone who wanted to view the posts in their entirety via their [...]

Aug 11th, 2006

Why You Should Use the Doctype Tag

In retrospect, I’m amazed how many years I went as a web designer without understanding a single thing about doctype tags. I’d seen them when I looked at the source code for other pages. Dreamweaver included one every time I created a new file. Here was a piece of code Macromedia felt important enough to [...]

Aug 9th, 2006

Posting Schedule Update

So for the second week in a row, I’m late getting my Wednesday post up. To make things worse, this post doesn’t even cover a topic on running a web design business… at least not anyone’s web design business but mine. After what seems like a lifetime of splitting my time between my freelance work [...]

Aug 4th, 2006

Fixed vs. Liquid Layouts: A Totally Biased Comparison

This article assumes that you are already at least passingly familiar with the age old web design debate of liquid versus fixed layouts. Let me start by saying what follows is not an objective analysis of the two alternatives. Sure, I’ll discuss some of the pros and cons, but I’m not making any effort to [...]

Aug 2nd, 2006

Vital Software and Services For a Web Design Business

I was reorganizing my toolbars yesterday, and I grouped together the pieces of software that I use most frequently for my web design business. I thought it would make a good post of some “best practices” software. It made sense to add on a few online services that have been important to my business, too. [...]

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