FOWD Seminars for Free
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Just found the seminars for FOWD (Future of Web Design) for free. For any web designers who missed this conference go check it out. I have only had the time to watch/listen to the presentation by Paul Boag which was amazing. Go check out all of the presentations and learn some real stuff about web…
Just Fix the Problem Now Regardless of Cost
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It would probably be a safe bet that you have a cell phone. It would also probably be a safe bet that at one point or another they have been less than stellar in their customer service. Whether it was billing or a DOA phone or dropping your message box it has happened. The worst…
Working with Integrity
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At the end of the day I design and build website for the money. I have to eat, pay the mortgage, do fun stuff and money is what pays for that. I don’t think anyone would begrudge me this because we all realize that today money is what makes the world go around. At what…
Scope Creep and the In House Designer
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At one time or another each freelancer must deal with a client regarding the question of scope creep. As freelancer’s it can be easier to put your foot down, assuming you have a contract, and say no to added features at the same price. But what does an in house designer do? They don’t have…
Interesting Links: CSS trickery
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CSS Image Trickery Both of these articles come from the newest addition to my RSS feeds sohtanaka.com. First off is an article on adding effects to images with some CSS and HTML. Pretty neat and shows much of what you can do without encasing the entire effect in an image. The second article from sohtanaka.com…
Is it too Early to Launch your Website?
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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…
The News: IE 8 may not suck and the freelancer bootcamp
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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…
The News: IE to use Webkit & Staying creative
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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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