URL ABC

A fun little diversion started by Tim Van Damme. A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.

(via Brad Dielman)

Table Striping with jQuery

Adding zebra-striping to your tables with JavaScript is quite easy, and even easier when using jQuery. But an issue during a recent implementation forced me to rethink the method I was using.

(via Brad Dielman)

Long Time Coming

It’s been little over a week since I launched my redesign, so I figure I better do the obligatory “Look at my updated site!” post. Anyhow… Here goes.

(via Brad Dielman)

A List Apart 2008 Survey

It's that time of the year again. The staff at A List Apart have released their second annual Survey for People Who Make Websites.
I highly recommend that anyone in the industry from designers to developers take a few minutes and head over to ALA and participate. It …

Recap...

It's been a busy few weeks so instead of trying to think of some new clever article I'm going to recap the events of the last fourteen days.
Work has been very steady. New client work coming as well as collaborative efforts with local freelancers and agencies are …

CSS Off Returns

In a little over 12 hours the latest CSS Off contest will be underway! For those of you unfamiliar with the CSS Off, it is a contest that puts a .psd in your hands and asks that you turn it into a semantic, standards-based site in 24 hours. I participated in the last …

CWSA March Meeting: Making the Case for Standards

The first Tuesday of March is fast approaching and that can only mean one thing. It is time for another meeting of Cleveland Web Standards Association. Oh, yeah. There is some talk about an important primary in Ohio taking place on the same day or something, but I'm …

The New Home of Cleveland Web Standards

I am very proud to announce the launch of the new Cleveland Web Standards Association site. I had the pleasure of working with Brendan Cullen on getting this first iteration of our little corner of the web online. I say first iteration because from the beginning this …

What's Going On...

This has to be the fourth blog post in as many weeks that I have started to write. The others have been banished to the back of my mind with a little help from the delete key. Half-hearted attempts to be witty, insightful, or (heaven forbid) instructional have been …

Time for a Change

Finally. I've been boring my friends and family with talk of this redesign since September. Well, I can now proudly say that it's finished.
I had the site mocked up back at the end of September, and the basic coding finished by early October. A few projects, birthdays, …

CWSA 12.4.07

Another meeting of the Cleveland Web Standards Association has come and gone, and my what a busy night it was. The night was filled with wonderful presentations, good food and great discussions. As always, the real fun begins when the presentations end and the …

It's been a while...

Since I've posted anything on this site. Save for the occasional picture pulled in from Flickr or a bookmark from Del.icio.us, it has been ghost town around here.
Needless to say, I've been very busy. Between collaborating on projects, catching up on some light reading …

CSS Off Update

I was away from my computer most of the day and upon returning to my desk I found out that I won the latest round of the CSS Off!
As I have said before, I had a great time participating in the contest. The pressure of the deadline coupled with the challenge presented by …

Pink for October

My friend Brendan Cullen has inspired me to go Pink for October. For the next 28 days this site will shed its usual dreary grayish tones in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Check out some of the other sites involved in the effort to raise awareness. …

CSS Off

First of all, let me start this by saying thanks to Dan Ott. It was his persistance that prompted me to give this round of the CSS Off competition a go. Now here I sit, nearly 45 minutes after the final bell. Damn I'm tired.
I submitted my entry two minutes before the …

Cleveland Web Standards Association

This past Tuesday I attended the most recent meetup of the Cleveland Web Standards Association. I have to say that it was without a doubt our best ever. Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way. Chris Miller gave the meetup a great review on Refresh …

POSH Your Site Up!

There has been some talk around the Cleveland web scene of late asking the question: What standards should we be promoting?
The consensus in the comments of the Refresh Cleveland article, mine included, was that there is a real need to focus on the basics. By "basics" I …

A little nip here, a little tuck there...

I was a bit bored with some of the elements of my site so I decided it needed a little facelift. No major surgery, just a quick update of the logo and some new background images for the titles. Although I think next time I will use sIFR.
This site is due for some major …

TextMate for Windows?

By now, everyone I know is aware that I plan on getting a Mac. I'm sure I've bored my poor wife to tears over the subject.
Well, until that day arrives I'll have to endure using my PC. There is, however, something that may make the situation a bit more bearable. I've …

Revisionist History

I have just learned about the departure of Derek Powazek and Heather Champ from JPG Magazine via Naz Hamid.
The blatant rewriting of the history of JPG and the subsequent removal of any mention of Heather Champ's contributions have prompted me to delete my account.
I …