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With the most recent redesign of this site, about a year ago, I decided I wanted to mix things up a little and display a different look/design for each month. I wanted the main page of the site to change with each month, but have the individual entries maintain the look of the month it [...]

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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 [...]