StrikeAwe

Hi folks!

I'm wrapping up my personal portfolio website, and have one piece that I really want to create, but need some awesome photos for. I'd love it if they came from my friends and family rather than stock photo sites!

Criteria:

• High-res (bonus points if you have a copy in RAW format)
• Color (no b&w)
• Landscape ...

I've decided to start adding rel="designer" to the little "Designed by" links that go into sites I work on. That's right.

As the whole XFN movement continues to grow (slowly), I can't help but notice that there's no place in the spec for businesses. Identity is just as crucial for businesses as it is for ...

I've known about stackoverflow.com for a while... anybody that uses Google as their reference for coding lands on solutions there pretty regularly.

I signed up as a user two days ago after learning more about them at Google I/O and I have to say, there are are some excellent design features at work on their site.

1. They ...

How to use mod rewrite and htaccess to do URL rewriting. Code to make extensionless URLs by passing variables to PHP or other scripts.

Get it... "post"-Christmas...

Anyhow, only minor updates to the online realm today. Between family and another upcoming project I could only do so much.

However, I did do a couple things:

1. Planned out some content strategy* for the website. (*If you're wondering what that is, see: Content-tious Strategy on A List Apart)
2. Added a nice hCard header to ...

Working on Christmas: A change of name, IntenseDebate, OpenID, and BluePrint CSS to get the gabrielhurley.com up and running.

With limited fanfare, I'm very happy to say that the new website for the California Revels has gone live in a "soft launch" side-by-side with their existing site!

Take a look at the new California Revels website.

Come see the show this year! And tell your friends and family! And write reviews for the show online. Your word of ...

One of Zero Coordinate's recent web design projects is now live online.

"Where Are You Online?" is an online docuwebisode project exploring the shift from "entertainment" to "intertainment", and all that it entails.

For those of you that aren't in the know, a docuwebisode is a documentary-web-episode. The Where Are You Online series is exploring the change in ...

First, the solution: $9.99 Comodo SSL Certificate from NameCheap.com

(Leave me a comment if this helps you! Thanks!)

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/cheap-comodo-ssl-certificates.asp

Second, the explanation:

I'm a big fan of Google, and their Google Checkout system is a pretty great service as far as online payment systems/merchant accounts go... but their documentation ...

In an ironic twist, while writing up my entry about User Interface Design, one of my business partners was watching a video promo by Jeff Howe for his book Crowdsourcing (view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-UtNg3ots ). What struck me as he's talking about the internet enabling "the crowd" to do all the tasks that ...

I just wrapped up reading a fantastic paper (nearly 50 pages) on the problems of User Interface Design, particularly the problems inherent in conveying information graphically. Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface, the entire piece is available here: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

I decided, for my own benefit in remembering, to write out a summary of what I ...