I’ve spent most of this week coding a Flash application for the portfolio section of a to-be-created University of Pittsburgh Office of Public Affairs site. And while it seems I have the capacity to write ActionScript (2.0/OOP), it’s not something I do all the time (so I’m rusty) or would want to do all the…

The University of Denver Web and Digital Media Manager contacted me to see if I would be interested in getting together with other university folks going to SXSW for a meet and greet. I said sure. I can’t believe it’s less than two weeks away. Wait, it’s the end of next week! I’m really excited,…

Last year when the University of Pittsburgh needed new web hires, I tried to figure out if there was anyone I could ask for help. Since there really aren’t any big names in Pittsburgh, I turned to Jason Santa Maria in Philadelphia, who has worked with Jeffrey Zeldman and Happy Cog. I simply asked if…

I was catching up on my blog reading, which has suffered as of late due to busy-ness (and business), and finally got to read Adaptive Path’s Seven Resolutions for 2006. The first resolution states: It??????s easy to create the same shopping basket, search mechanism, or navigation scheme over and over. Instead, plan time into project…

The SXSW Interactive Festival begins in just over a month. Thanks to some clever begging and much appreciated support, my employer is sending this year. I’m pretty excited, because a lot of great stuff came out of last year’s festival. It was last year that I decided that I had to go this year. Today…

A developer recently asked me how I sell clients on the extra time and cost it takes to built web standard compliant sites using CSS versus tables. “I don’t have to,” I said. “CSS is faster.” How could it not be? There’s less code. There’s less time spent slicing images in PhotoShop. And if you…

Molly contributed an interesting article on A List Apart about grid-based design for the Web, and the impact CSS will play on the future of web design. There are some good parallels between planned cities and table-based layouts, and some excellent visualizations of the underlying structure of a few example designs to show the types…

Although Microsoft announced in June 2003 that it would no longer update Internet Explorer for the Mac, the new year marks the end of IE Mac support. And as of January 31, 2006, you will not be able to download IE Mac from Microsoft’s site. (Thank god!) I was looking to download a copy so…

I imagine most people are spending time with family and friends today. And that doesn’t leave much time for sending email, which is why I’m not surprised to have received no email from anyone yet today. Except for spam. Still getting plenty of that. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas. And may…