Spent the day yesterday hacking it up at HubAustin for API Hack Day. This would be my first time participating in an all day Hack-a-thon contest type of thing. I hitched a ride with Jeff and, as it turned out, … More →

At work we needed a new way to organize all our office locations across Texas and map them on a Google Map. Instead of coding up all the data in the document, I went a different route. (Get it? Different … More →

More than a month ago I redesigned my front page so that I could easily change the look of it whenever I felt the urge. Today I’ve changed for the second time. I based the design on a pic I … More →

The problem with responsive slideshow plugins like FlexSlider and the like is the unnecessary large images a small screen mobile user is forced to download. There has been a lot of talk about the problem with responsive images lately. We … More →

I’ve just finished up an interesting week at work and I’m gearing up for a three day weekend to get ready for a Super Bowl party on Sunday. Ok, so it’ll just be me and my father-in-law watching but I’ll … More →

I’ve just finished up a session on Designing Flexible Content at Word Up Austin where I outline my process for designing device agnostic sites. I was very impressed with the content at the meet up and had some great questions … More →

I’m reading The Elements of Typographic Style at the moment. It’s beautifully written and I’m learning how the rules author Robert Bringhurst lays out can be used on the web. But not all the rules translate to the web. Particularly … More →

Back in December of 2010, Eivind Uggedal released the mediaqueri.es site to showcase websites implementing a technique called Responsive Web Design. I’m happy to report that my modest online journal you are reading here has been added to the showcase. … More →

Shi Chuan and Jeremy Keith have come up with a great solution to the orientation viewport scale problem that one experiences on iOS devices. I’ve been a bit flummoxed as to how to go about tackling the problem. It just … More →

Had a chance to listen to all the talks and panels I missed at this year’s sxswi on Huffduffer. Jenn Lukas of Happy Cog on the No Excuse: Web Designers Who Can’t Code panel had something interesting to say: The … More →