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ISS came to Category 4 to convert their knowledge of screening and security into a professional web presence with a design that reflected their global connections...
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Since 1998, I've built websites of all scope and size for Category 4 where I currently serve as Art Director.
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These are screengrabs from three very high-profile sites…At any size less than 1 em, the kerning and bolding look really crumbly and illegible in places. Tellingly, it’s very smooth and legible on a Mac Safari/Firefox platform. It’s strange to see otherwise good designers not checking their designs across common platforms.
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Long before Wordpress came along, it was considered smart CSS to attach an ID or class to the <body> tag of your webpages. For the homepage layout, you might use…
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Last month I received an email with this subject line: “Bucks and Gallants mentioned in RollingStone.com!” It was sent by a good friend, but I figured it for a cruel mistake since B&G was my band, we were relatively unknown, plus we’d broken up ten months ago…
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An old friend began learning web design last month, but said she was feeling overwhelmed by what to learn first, who to learn it from, how to keep track of it all, and how to do it efficiently. I made her some notes on the tools that work best for me. Mostly obvious stuff, but hopefully it will be useful to some…
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CNN continues to bring hard news during hard times.
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About halfway through the newest post by Andy Rutledge is a section called “How Big is My Silo?” The premise is ridiculously simple: newspaper and magazine layouts in the print world do not translate necessarily into good layouts on the web…
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WPCandy.com gave a nice tutorial this week on how to add and edit the behaviors of WYSIWYG buttons in Wordpress. This inspired me to make three additional hacks of my own…
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There’s plenty happening in the world right now, from WWIII brinkmanship to climate change to economic shifts throughout Europe and Asia. Let’s look at the shortlist of what CNN considers need-to-know information for Dec 5, 2007:
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Lots of great theming tips are being exchanged over in the forum, and plenty more excellent Mimbo customizations are popping up around the web:
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Awhile back, I reviewed a premium (paid) Wordpress theme which sold for $99-$250 per download. Premium themes have continued taking root — I’ve spotted five other similar themes since then, all in that price range, all in the news and magazine layout style…
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The new version is out — meanwhile read about what’s new…
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Since its release in August, the numbers for Mimbo have been shaping up…
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A protracted discussion about CSS frameworks like Blueprint has broken out over at Jeff Croft’s blog. I respect everyone contributing to it, but the energy spent on that topic seems ridiculous with a capital R.
One of the only comments which spoke to me was by Jon Hicks:
I mentioned CSS frameworks on The Rissington Podcast, and [...]
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MSNBC.com launched their new design this week. It was nearly two years in the making, with outside design assistance by big names in the industry like Cameron Moll and Greg Storey. Much of the redesign process was chronicled at Alpha Channel, the user-collaborative blog run by MSNBC’s team and their Creative Director Ashley Wells…
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This site uses Archer for typography, WordPress for content management, Fancy Zoom for thumbnails and a palette created with Kuler. Read more about the site's history»