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This is what people see when they try to add me on linkedin.com I’m thinking the site needs to display a little more than six characters for names.

In some good news, it turns out the judges selected my logo design as the winner of iBoughtAMac’s logo design contest. I’m sure the judges had a very difficult time making their decision with all the wonderful entries for the contest. Many thanks to Brent at iBoughtAMac and the rest of the judges for the [...]

A while back I posted an entry, that received a lot of attention, about how to add various social bookmarks to your WordPress blog entries. Some people think adding these links to blogs are uselees and create visual noise, while others love the idea and feel it is a great way to receive more traffic [...]

A few days back I received a comment from a reader asking for help using the centered sliding door menus that I had expanded upon from Ethan Marcotte’s original tutorial. The commenter explained that the menus were acting a little buggy in IE7 so I decided to download IE7 and try to find a way [...]

I was thinking that there should be some type of gallery to feature some of the best designs using cascading style sheets.

When creating a website, you may have a situation where you need to include far more content into a certain area than the design can really accommodate. An easy way to accomplish this is to create a scrolling div area that will automatically scroll when there is an overflow of content within the div. A [...]

With the most recent design of this site I decided to do away with a few of my google ad blocks to make the site a little nicer looking. My google ads are now only displayed to those that end up here via search engines. This is really easy to do, and kinda nice if [...]

Despite all of the bad things about Myspace, there really are a few good things. Even non-computer savy folks can easily create their own little space on the web, customize it with some garish animated .gifs and begin to contact people from many years gone by. I had noticed a lot of people that I [...]

In case you haven’t noticed or just so happen to keep up with the site via RSS, late last Friday I finally finished up my work on the redesign for this very site. It had been a very long time coming, and I must say that I love it. I just no longer liked the [...]

I often receive emails from people asking what steps to take to learn CSS and how to create CSS based layouts. I usually respond by suggesting a few books and offer up a few hints of my own. The following tips are what I have found work best for me. They may seem very basic [...]

I wasn’t even aware of this until today, but a company called OverZone Software offers a program called CSS Tab Designer which helps the user design CSS-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. The program information on the website says it offers 60+ different designs/colors. I must say judging by the [...]

Thanks to the wonderful tool that is Mint, I discovered another “rip” of this current site design. This time my site seems to be stolen by a “designer” at a New Orleans based design firm. What ending up making this most current design ripping experience somewhat fun is that when I noticed the site in [...]

I know myself and a lot of designers were very excited after reading Ethan Marcotte’s method of centering sliding doors tabs last month over at 24 ways. I had been waiting for someone to help solve the float issue with the sliding doors technique for a very long while. I enjoyed the article but thought [...]

A lot of people I’ve spoke to, and many blog posts I have read have been really unhappy with the new visual editor in WordPress 2.0. It is pretty simple to revert back to the traditional post interface without all the WYSIWYG additions, but a lot of people aren’t sure how, or where to find [...]

If you don’t know about newsvine.com, or have been under a rock for quite a while, the site is a place where anyone can read, write, and influence the news. The site offers users a chance to “seed” articles they have read and would like to pass on for other users to enjoy. I have [...]