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I use Gmail regularly constantly and I’ve been bothered by it’s handling of my signature during replies. It puts your signature below the message you’re replying to, even if your setting is to compose the reply above. Well, whaddayaknow, there is a setting for this! I’d looked for it before but just found it now [...]

Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Web Tips.
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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 Safari. Today I found the shift also happened in Firefox 3. Doh! Fortunately a discussion [...]

Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Design, Web Tips.
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Kurt Vonnegut was brilliant as ever in How to Write With Style. (via Jason Santa Maria’s oddities). I enjoyed the full article, but here is the summary: Find a subject you care about Do not ramble, though Keep it simple Have guts to cut Sound like yourself Say what you mean Pity the readers These [...]

Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Web Tips.
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I was about to send a note to a client, a speechwriter who sells seminars etc. from his site, to tell him he should check out E-Junkie. Then I remembered, hey, I have this thing called a blog… maybe others could use this info too.

Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Marketing, Web Tips.
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I was just reading some interesting content on a rather large, well-known website. The content was interesting enough that I thought “maybe I’ll blog about this and link to it.” Alas, I was annoyed by banner ads full of flashing, spinning things I wasn’t interested in. “Hmm, I thought, maybe this is why I spend [...]

Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Marketing, Peeves, Web Tips.
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