CSS3 has been around for quite some time. The fact that it doesn’t validate is probably one of the main reasons we haven’t seen it all that much. Truth is that it does validate however, W3C doesn’t have a CSS3 validator and your styles are validated to CSS2 by default. To date almost all browsers support except of course IE however, IE9 is claiming support for several selectors though it is not available just yet. I’ve been using Chrome for quite some time now so I don’t really notice or care, I just make sure that whatever I’m doing will look OK if a browser doesn’t support it.
Tags border-radius, box-shadow, css3, text-shadow
We’ve heard it before, cell phones cause brain cancer. I’m no doctor but I would think we would have heard more about this if they did. There is no general consensus among doctors about cell phones and brain cancer, and the leaders in the industry (obviously) claim there is no substantial evidence to prove that cell phone radiation levels are dangerous. However, in Maine there is pending legislation to make the state the first one that will require cell phones to sport warnings about the dangers of cell phones.
Tags brain cancer, cell phone radiation levels, cell phone radiation protection, cell phones, cell phones and brain cancer, dangers of cell phones
Here is a local news item involving a school laptop web camera that is becoming a nation wide story. In the Lower Merion School District of Pennsylvania, about 4 hours West of Pittsburgh, a student was punished by his school for “inappropriate behavior”… IN HIS HOME. How did school officials know what he was doing at home? They saw and recorded him using the web camera on a school issued laptop.
Tags laptop, laptop web camera, laptop with built in camera, Pittsburgh, school laptop, web camera
Last month several of my sites got hacked. I found a JavaScript on every file named index.html on WordPress installations as well as regular html sites. On WordPress it on index.php in the root, wp-content, and wp-admin. On HTML sites it was on every index.html going one sub-directory deep. All sites looked and worked fine and I wouldn’t have even noticed it except that there was an error in the injected HTML that broke one of the pages. When I looked I saw a JavaScript at the bottom of the file. No idea what it did or was planning to do.
Tags html, website security, WordPress
Google has threatened to shut down its business in China. To date the big G has been censoring its data served to the global giant complying with Chinese law. However this decision has been under scrutiny due to an attack on its infrastructure that originated there in the later months of 2009.
Tags IE6, Nexus One
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 10:26 am under
Software
This is just one of those things that is so weird I had to write about it. I was working on a WordPress theme for a client using Dreamweaver CS3 as usual when all of a sudden Dreamweaver just disappears. Dreamweaver stopped working for no reason, no warning, no error window, it just went away. I try to reopen Dreamweaver and it comes up for about three seconds then just disappears again. I begin to panic a little because I am right in the middle of making a website for a regular client. I of course start thinking about the phone call I will have to make telling them that I can’t finish the project by the deadline because my software has disappeared, real professional. I also start thinking about what a drag it will be to have to start using notepad and Filezilla or spend the next three hours reinstalling Dreamweaver and losing all my site definitions.
Tags adobe, CS3, dreamweaver, make a website, photoshop, web design tools
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 12:36 pm under
Business
The value of copyright and registered trademark laws is undeniable. Anyone that provides a product or a service can put forth the effort to create a brand that will effectively represent their work and when one reaches a level of success they can rest easy knowing that there are laws in place that protect their efforts and their brand from being copied. This is fair play, a by-product of our democracy where everyone is allowed their shot at the American dream as well as a right to defend it once they are successful.
Tags American dream, Hansen Beverage Company, Monster Energy drink, registered trademark laws, Rock Art Brewery, Vermonster
Checking out a new service called TypeKit. If you are a web designer then you know well the fact that you are quite limited in what fonts are available when using HTML. SEO Web Design is the practice of making pretty sites that are also optimized for the search engines, too bad you can’t use pretty fonts without using images. Alt tags help but it just isn’t as effective as good old HTML text.
Tags css, design, fonts, html, Search Engine Optimization, seo web design, web design, website
WTF Adobe. I just spent an entire day trying to fix a bizzare licensing issue with Adobe CS3 and it seems I am not alone.
I was just working along as usual, I had Photoshop and Dreamweaver open like I always do when all of a sudden I get a popup that says “Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help.”
Tags adobe, CS3, photoshop, web design
Web designer, web developer, whatever, I build websites and my best clients are design houses that use me to transform their designs into websites. I consider myself very lucky to be doing as well as I do in my particular neck of that woods. Below are a few tools I have been using on a regular basis to bridge the gap between design and SEO.
Tags designer, developer, fonts, Search Engine Optimization, seo, seo web design, web design, web design tools