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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

On CSS Resets

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:59 am

I’ve been using CSS reset code for quite a while. My “weapon of choice” in that category has been Eric Meyer’s version. But lately I’ve been rethinking the proposition, mainly because of some “interesting” issues that crop up repetitively. Most of my clients don’t accept arguments in favor of letting the user’s default font size […]

On the (F)utility of pre-built CMS’s

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 9:02 am

My two most recent contracts have been triggering the reflective urge in me. I’ve been a user of Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal, as has been noted in these electrons before. But I’ve never been entirely satisfied with them. I can go down a long list of little things that annoy me about each one of […]

Returning From Capistrano

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 7:03 am

Been spending way too much time with Capistrano recently, and it stops now. It’s quite possibly useful to me in my current projects, but its user-hostility makes it not worth the time. As I searched and read page after web page, trying to find a pointer to how to use Cap in my environment (svn […]

What’s wrong with Visual Studio?

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 6:35 pm

I’ve tweeted this a bit, but decided it’s time I start a catalog. Been working an assignment on location at an ASP.Net shop (they’ve teased about it being a full-time gig, but no action on that front; honestly don’t know what I’d do, because the folks there are great to work with even if they […]

On Craftsmen

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 1:42 pm

(Both Joshua Porter and Eric Meyer have been musing on this theme, and it struck a chord here, as well. This should not be construed as a rebuttal to either piece, just some musings their writings have spurred here.) In the beginning was the individual. If Og wanted something for his cave, he fashioned it […]

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