Category Archives: Design

Fashion Fails Fourteen+

An open letter to clothing designers & retailers Dear fashion folk, I want to give you money. If only you would let me. (Did that get your attention?) Recently I went shopping for new clothes: I’d heard about some great … Continue reading

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Geeky web tip – 1 pixel shift of background image

Recently while coding a client’s site, I had an issue with a background image being misaligned by just one pixel. It was only happening in Safari. I tried a number of things and finally resorted to a CSS hack for … Continue reading

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“SmartyPig” It?

SmartyPig looks like an interesting new service to watch. (Found it in my RSS feed from the oh-so-talented Jason Santa Maria, who designed the site with his colleagues at Happy Cog. Way to go, Cogsters!) It’s purpose is making saving … Continue reading

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Need a speech?

I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now … Continue reading

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Please, Jakob, tell us how you really feel.

Whether you agree with him or not, at least you can count on Jakob Nielsen to be interesting. …on the Web, most people are bozos and not worth listening to. A snippet from Why Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous.

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