Recently I have been spending a lot of time relearning things in web design and development. I realize that I can get caught up in doing things repeatedly without questioning why. After all we are creatures of habit. This has been on my mind since I started to read Jeffery Zeldman’s 3rd edition of Designing [...]
PBS Frontline: Digital Nation
Not too long ago I wrote a note called Digital Native Responsibility. I continued my thoughts on this after watching a very relevant documentary on PBS called Digital Nation. The documentary visited the common “digital native” in various cities all over the world which examined the positive and negative effects technology has on brain development. [...]
Trillian for OSX
This past weekend I downloaded the alpha version of Trillian for Mac OSX 10.5 or higher. I sometimes feel the need to test out and use new IM programs. Some how I find myself always going back to iChat mainly because it is simple and offers the basic functionality I’m looking for. However, the newest [...]
Semantic Header Tags
A question popped up today if it is OK to use more than one H1 tag in a XHTML document. With the understanding that H1 is the most important and working your way to H6 becomes less important. This question was directed towards the case when you want to have an Logo (with image replacement [...]
DIY Ethos in Web Design
This past week I had the pleasure to start a new book called “The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism” by Matt Mason. I have only gotten to the end of the fist chapter, but I am already connecting to much of his writing. Punk Capitalism, which he describes as a modern day [...]
