Month: November 2008

• Is it too Early to Launch your Website?

  November 20, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  Who here has launched a project prematurely? (my hand was the first up). When you start putting work into a project you get excited about it. You set a deadline for finishing the project and work very hard to stick to it. Sometimes despite our best efforts we have 90% of the project done. Sure…

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• Take your Website to the Dentist

  November 13, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  This post was inspired by my recent dentist visit and the start of my silver grill as stated if you follow me on twitter. Having a long term website is a lot of work. You have to update the content, keep the Content Management System up to date so it’s not vulnerable to attack and…

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• The News: IE 8 may not suck and the freelancer bootcamp

  November 12, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  What I feel is the biggest news of the day is the fact that IE 8 now passes the Acid 2 test. So it may be that we won’t hate IE as much in the future. Admittedly we will still have to wait for IE 6 to die. Over at Freelancer Magazine there has been…

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• The News: IE to use Webkit & Staying creative

  November 7, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  Well here is an interesting development. In a recent developers conference in Sydney Steve Ballmer said that “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that.” This is very interesting as the rendering in IE sucks currently and Webkit is awesome. I know that for all web designers it would be a wonderful thing…

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• The News: Firefox is alive, seo, and some marketing advice

  November 5, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  Today is a great day for web designer’s. It seems that Firefox is finally over 20% of the market share in browsers. Firefox is awesome, and it is wonderful to see it reach this milestone. Hopefully this really pushes IE to be standards compliant instead of the PITA that all web designers are familiar with.…

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• The Daily News: WordPress 2.7 and pricing your projects

  November 4, 2008

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  Curtis McHale

  How about we start the day with some twitter inspiration. Use the link to check out some creative twitter backgrounds and get some inspiration for designing your own. I know mine could sure use a refresh. Next up today is some feature previews for WordPress 2.7, which I am really excited about. Overall the interface…

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