Knowledge Portfolio

October 30, 2003 | View Comments (3) | Our Thoughts

To become good at anything you must invest in your knowledge portfolio.

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Non-scientific poll: Laptops and Desktops

October 28, 2003 | View Comments (23) | Our Thoughts

What are the best lightweight laptops and other hardware questions for developers.

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AllTheParties: Day 1, The Challenge

October 27, 2003 | View Comments (25) | Design Journal

A look at the first designs for AllTheParties.com.

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Link Types

October 24, 2003 | View Comments (5) | Design

What link types are used for and how they help to build a more semantic web.

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Why I...

October 24, 2003 | View Comments (4) | Our Thoughts

Why I Program... I love to program because I like having control of hardware. I love making the computer do what I want it to do. I love seeing websites emulate on screen what I have in my head. I...

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Too much hype is no good

October 23, 2003 | View Comments (15) | Our Thoughts

Hype can be a bad thing in the design world, because you can almost never live up to it.

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The perfect client?

October 21, 2003 | View Comments (6) | Web Business

Is there such thing as a perfect client.

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The problem with IDEs

October 20, 2003 | View Comments (8) | Programming

Why you should not start with an IDE when learning how to program.

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Fight spam before it starts

October 19, 2003 | View Comments (7) | Whitespace

How I am going to stop spam at the gate.

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If you love the look of this site...

October 18, 2003 | View Comments (9) | Our Thoughts

I have a bet. Pray that I win.

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The true power of CSS

October 17, 2003 | View Comments (8) | Our Thoughts

Gotta see it to believe it. A CSS house.

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Nick Pullaro: Day 3, Planning

October 17, 2003 | View Comments (0) | Design Journal

The planning and design phase for Nick Pullaro

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Setting the price

October 16, 2003 | View Comments (12) | Web Business

When asking someone who has been in the freelance web design business for a while on some advice for pricing your work, they are usually quick to throw out some advice on what they do. Sometimes they will tell you...

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Non-scientific poll: Log Files

October 15, 2003 | View Comments (13) | Web Mastering

What do you use to analyze your log files and what do you find useful in them?

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Elements of Web Design: Fonts and text

October 14, 2003 | View Comments (9) | Design

The selection of fonts for your website should not be something taken lightly. Fonts usually can play a greater role then you think on your website.

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Why I hand code

October 13, 2003 | View Comments (11) | Design

Why I hand code and maybe why you should consider it.

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Nick Pullaro: Day 2, The Meeting

October 11, 2003 | View Comments (16) | Design Journal

Unexpected surprises when I meet with Nick

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Image can be everything

October 10, 2003 | View Comments (11) | Our Thoughts

Great idea. Great software. Horrible website.

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Overdesign

October 09, 2003 | View Comments (9) | Design

One of the reasons simple design is hard is because we tend to overdesign everything.

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Nick Pullaro: Day 1

October 08, 2003 | View Comments (7) | Design Journal

My first talk with Nick about his site.

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The Beginning of the Journal

October 08, 2003 | View Comments (3) | Design Journal

If you wanna learn not only design, but the business you gotta tell a story. This journal tells the story of a project from beginning to end.

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Viewers Choice

October 07, 2003 | View Comments (14) | CSS Redesigns

I need to redesign another site just because really I have this itch. I don't know why because I am extremely busy, but I just need to. Help me decide what site to do.

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Non-scientific poll: OS

October 05, 2003 | View Comments (14) | Our Thoughts

I would just like to hear what other designers use as their OS. A good discussion should follow.

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Rant About Minimalist Design

October 03, 2003 | View Comments (13) | Design

Minimalistic design is not plain or boring. It is beautiful.

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Elements of Web Design: Content

October 03, 2003 | View Comments (0) | Design

The power of content and how you should write your content for you website.

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CSS Fark

October 01, 2003 | View Comments (10) | CSS Redesigns

CSS Redesign of FARK.com showing how quickly one can produce layouts in CSS. This is a complete redesign, not just a remake in CSS.

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