Just sat down for the keynote with Luke Williams. First up though, is Brett with a few words – turns out this is the 10th year for the event. Note to self: tag on twitter #wv2010 Now for Luke… 1ne – competition “how the weak win wars”- a book I need to pick up. 2wo […]

Get ready for a whole bunch of geeked out, presentation notes for the next few days. Why? Because, I’m at webvisions, of course! For those playing along at home, I tend to upload as I go. So if you see a half finished post – it means that I am still in the middle of […]

On the web, nothing is more fun then having your site hacked by spammers. I just love spending hours hunting down all the viagra references that have been injected into the various sites that I maintain. Now the hackers are making things even more fun by using a technique that incorporates “cloaked spam”. The idea is actually quite ingenious: Anyone visiting with a normal […]

Anyone who follows me on twitter already know how I feel about Dreamweaver. It may be “the” IDE for web designers/developers, but it is plagued with issues that won’t go away. Each release adds new features, but none have fixed what I see as two overshadowing problems: 1) Lack of simple customization  2) Bugs, bugs, […]

I am in the middle of a project and will keep this short… but  wanted to mention again how great WP works as a basic CMS. For instance, you can create custom meta boxes: add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘create_color_meta’); add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_color_meta’); These replace the need to have the client use the Custom Field box – in fact, feel […]

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Web forms rock They are easily accessible, can feed information directly to a database and replace tree-killing paper versions. Web forms suck They are difficult to style, require massive validation and and the elements look drastically different on each browser. And don’t get me started on accessibility. OK, get me started… It takes a lot […]

I am a bit of an idiot when it comes to print typography. On the web the choices have historically been limited and knowing the difference between san/serif has been enough. But, the times are slowly changing… The Classic Resource A coworker introduced me to this nice little cheat sheet was created in 1992. Although […]