July 3, 2010

Attending Wordcamp Boulder 2010?

I’m having a hard time picking which seminars to attend at Wordcamp in Boulder, Colorado next weekend. There are a ton of great WordPress presentations on the schedule.

Wordcamp is a one-day conference for WordPress developers, …

December 4, 2009

24Ways: HTML5 heads toward desktop apps

Filed under: Flash,Flex,Resources,Web development,Web standards - 04 Dec 2009

Breaking Out the Edges of the Browser” by Remy Sharp reveals the future: HTML5 has features that enable web developers to write applications that work both online and offline. One commenter stated that “When this really starts to grow …

24Ways.org: Working with RBGA Color

Filed under: CSS,Design,Web development - 04 Dec 2009

The awesome “advent calendar for web geeks” can be found at 24ways.org. December is my favorite time of year for many reasons, one of which is getting to read this great series of 24 web-related articles from around the …

November 19, 2009

Toward a comprehensive content strategy for web sites

Filed under: Project Management - 19 Nov 2009

Clients and Content

Why does it take clients so long to put together content for their new web site? Because creating content is complex. More complex than it appears at first. Because everything takes longer than you think. Because we all …

June 23, 2009

Web browser testing: It doesn’t have to look the same

Filed under: Browser testing,Design,Web development - 23 Jun 2009

A trend is clear in the web design and development world: web sites do not need to look the same in all web browsers.

An Event Apart Boston 2009 “the design conference for people who make web sites” just wrapped up …

April 5, 2009

CSS: Attaching style sheets

Filed under: Resources,Web development,Web standards - 05 Apr 2009

What are the differences between using @import vs. <link> when attaching an external style sheet to your HTML web page? i liked this article “What’s the Difference Between @import and link for CSS?” from About.com. It’s comprehensive and well …

March 25, 2009

What causes upslope snow

Filed under: Weather - 25 Mar 2009

We are about to get a facefull of upslope snow tomorrow along the Front Range of Colorado including Fort Collins. What does this have to do with web development? Nothing, except maybe I’ll get to ski to work.

Weather is one …

March 21, 2009

Styling visited links in web sites

Filed under: Usability,Web development - 21 Mar 2009

I don’t have a consistent approach to this yet… I’ve been hunting around today reading articles on different techniques for styling visited links on a web page.

I agree with this comment on usability advantages of styling visited links differently from …

March 1, 2009

Good Design in Ten Commandments

Filed under: Design - 01 Mar 2009

This list of the ten most important criteria for good design by Dieter Rams is applicable to web site design, web development, web applications, and software development even though he’s writing in the context of physical products. Wonderful. …

February 26, 2009

iStockPhoto now has royalty-free Audio

Filed under: Resources,Usability - 26 Feb 2009

A great resource if you are looking for audio for web site projects.

At CodeGeek.net, we’ve used iStockPhoto for several years now for low-cost, high-quality stock photos for many of our web site developement projects. We were excited to learn …

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