It’s been over a month now that I’ve started my first full time position as a front end programmer/designer. Now that I’ve had a taste of working within a company I’ll share my experiences thus far.

Working with a team

In the past my experience working with other designers/developers has been limited. I now work directly with programmers as well as a few graphic designers from time to time. Having like minded people to bounce ideas off of has helped me think differently about how and why I do things as I’m designing.

As a freelancer my only source of feedback was from the client and anyone in my Twitter feed who took notice of my project. Feedback is crucial in this line of work because it’s very easy to get lost in what your doing and lose sight of the big picture.

Read More >>

Over the past year I have seen CSS coded in various ways. I started out learning what I consider to be the most common method.


body {
     background-color: #000;
     color: #fff;
}
 
#container {
     height: auto;
     width: 960px;
     margin: 0 auto;
}


If using Adobe Dreamweaver’s Source Formatting

Read More >>

Some of you may know I also run a comic blog called PissMeOffAnd.com. It’s been a lot of fun so far and the greatest thing about it is that I am learning a lot in the process. One of the hardest tasks so far has been answering the question of just who my target audience is. Are people over 30 going to find this funny or find it pointless? It’s too early to tell but to my partial surprise there a few people so far who are interested in these comics.

The site is built on a WordPress install and I modified a free theme called ComicPress to my likings. Now that I’ve had a few months to see how this is going to shape out

Read More >>

Name: WP FollowMe
Author: WPBurn
Version: 2.04

Click here for a screen shot (Opens in new tab)

Description:

WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog.

What is nice?

This plugin is very easy to install. Setup is as simple as going to the plugins setting and entering the path to your Twitter URL. You have a decent amount of icons to chose from though at this moment it doesn’t appear you can use your own. Changing the color is simple by using Hexadecimal code under settings. Your also give the option of size and position on the page.

What is NOT so nice?

I don’t agree that what you have in the end is a “badge” on your page. It’s much more a tab that is fixed to the side of the browser. A rollover effect would help to give it more user feedback. Seeing that it already uses CSS, a rollover effect would be utilized quite easily.

In conclusion

Because this plugin is so easy to install and setup I would suggest it to anyone with limited CSS knowledge looking to achieve this look. This author is a young freelance designer and I think this plugin will get better as they continue to develop. I installed this plugin hoping it would allow you to display your followers as well.

My Rating: 2.5/5

Plugin Homepage: http://wpburn.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-followme-plugin

I’m pretty sure I can say that at some point you have seen or even been “the gray man” when posting a comment on a blog. I’ve been one on my own blog (sad) and I want to share with you how you can fix this very easily. If you see this “gray man” when you leave someone a comment (see beow) then you don’t have an image uploaded to Gravatar.com (Instructions below)

Read More >>

Decided today to look up my blood type out of curiosity and came across the American Red Cross website and while nosing around I noticed that they had a height requirement for donating blood. I thought this was pretty silly until I did a little research.

Read More >>

It’s very odd the way a number of these high profile political types handle themselves when confronted face-to-face. It’s very uncommon for these types to give any satisfaction by defending themselves or taking charge of the situation. When your surrounded by “handlers” you simply don’t have to acknowledge confrontational opposition. If I were Al Gore in this situation (time permitting of course) I would have taken charge and requested that these obviously concerned citizens stay and wait till people are done with the meet and greet. Handling a situation in that matter would show the other guests that you are not afraid to stand up for what you believe in. To ignore opposition is cowardice and to throw someone out for calling you out on something is anti-American in my opinion.

How would you have handled this situation? Leave me a comment below…

Band: Crossbreed
Album: KE 101
Release Date: 9.15.09

I was super excited when I found out Crossbreed was releasing a new album. I first heard Crossbreed when I was in High school and immediately became a fan. I remember cranking their album “Synthetic Division” in my 90′ Cutlass Supreme.

Read More >>

It seems that the better Apple does the more this topic comes about. I think people for the first time are getting a peek at Apple and their business model through iPones, iPods and other popular Apple products. By business model I mean this for example…

Read More >>

What you need for this tutorial

• Image Editing Software (ie: Adobe Photoshop)
• An average understanding your editing software
• Notepad or other code editing software

I believe this is the best way to create any type of image rollover. Other ways are to use JavaScript but I find this unnecessary because the CSS way is very straight forward and easy to do. A example of this would be my “Portfolio” button I have on the front of my website.

Read More >>