Web designers have many challenges when it comes to designing a website. Some may include timelines, budgets, client changes, scope-creep, etc. But one of our biggest challenges are fonts. Fonts? Yes. Fonts. The web was created back in 1945 (not kidding: http://www.w3.org/History.html). It took almost 50 years for them to create the “W3 Organization”. The…
Last week several folks from Centresource crossed the river to the East Side to help out with the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. This gift-giving bonanza has been around since the 70s and spread throughout the US and many other countries. The idea is to match kids in need with Angels; people who will shop…
Christmas is just around the corner. If you’re like me, you haven’t started shopping yet. If you’re trying to shop for your techy mate, it might be hard to find that special something they will love. Here is my Top 10 List of Christmas Gifts for that Special Geek in your Life: 10. Superheadz Clap…
Recently, Unmatched Style sponsored some “Friendly Markup Fisticuffs” where they issued design files to whoever wanted to compete, and the competitors would have two weeks to create a website using only their brains and their computers. The rules were pretty straightforward: one page only necessary, all external libraries (jQuery, et al.) had to be included,…
I love Tumblr. It’s the perfect modern blogging platform: built for posts shorter than, well, this one, but for content that’s longer than a 140-character tweet. It’s got amazing social features, too. I follow an astonishing 350 Tumblr blogs personally, which provides me a nice constant feed of content. Tumblr’s great Dashboard provides me the…
Earlier this year, we were honored to be nominated by .net magazine as Agency of the Year. We’re still blown away by it, and it got us thinking: A little while ago, .net announced their 25 favorite books for web designers and developers. We thought their list was pretty stellar, so we decided to celebrate…
