Wednesday May 28, 2008

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

I imagine this has been around for a long time, but I recently came across the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. There's also a ~28MB 400+ page PDF available. Surprisingly enough, I found the interface for the guide to be clunky, somewhat difficult to use, and really painful to try to read (probably due to text stretching to full screen ...
Wednesday May 14, 2008

MySQL commands (for SSH/command line use)

I hate looking this stuff up and I don't do it enough to remember so here goes: Logging in: mysql -u <username> -p list or show all databases: show databases; open or start using database: use <database name>; list or show all tables: show tables;  
Tuesday April 29, 2008

Great Landing page

I'm not a big fan of intermediate landing pages, but this one is so well done, I had to mention it: http://marketing.beatsource.com/landing_pages/gateway/  
Wednesday April 16, 2008

Lightbox js-thing with PDF support (and more)

So due to the overwhelming pressure to conform and be 'cool' like all those other developers, I started using Lightbox2 to make that cool floaty image on top of greyed out content functionality. I must say, it was really really easy to do. I did it for the first time on a site (still in development) for an ...
Saturday March 8, 2008

STEP’s Best of Web 2007 CALL FOR ENTRIES

Deadline for Entries: April 1, 2008 Enter your great web designs in STEP’s Best of Web Design Competition sponsored by Jupiterimages Unlimited and get the recognition you deserve. Winners will be interviewed and prominently featured in the Best of Web Annual [September|October 2008 issue]. Enter your ... Entire Website Web Advertising [web banners, pop-ups, etc.] Motion Graphics ... in these categories Business Consumer Self-promotion Nonprofit | Public Service...
Saturday November 24, 2007

Flash 8 Slow in Vista

So I know this is a site for web designers and I keep posting about software issues, but honestly, where would web designers be without their software? So I recently made the leap to Vista. It was a reluctant leap because I knew there'd be issues. Sure enough, there are. FlashPaper doesn't work in Vista And now while trying to work ...
Monday November 19, 2007

I Hate FF

Seriously. I wish Firefox would just go away. I need to design "I Hate FF" banners or something. Anyway, I just realized my homepage is all screwed up in Firefox. That's not why I hate it by the way, but it doesn't help. I realize that lots of my visitors are on Firefox, so I'll try to get this fixed. In the ...
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