I know it is typical this time of the year to see blogs kind of go dead for a bit and I apologize I’m another one of those guys. But it happens, anyway… I’ve been busy at work with some big projects that we are trying to get live. Late nights, long hours the whole bit.

Hopefully I will start finding more time to add some new content and stuff up here. At any rate, I’m preparing my link round up and hopefully a nice article about CSS design structure to add to the mix.

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I have made a few alterations to the site that I thought might be nice to point out to some of the seasoned visitors. I have added a functional footer at the bottom of the page that lists the most recent comments across all articles and I have also added a popular article section. Basically the more traffic an article gets the more popular I rank it. Pretty simple and to the point, I will watch it to see how well it works. Also I may end up clearing it our weekly or monthly to ensure that a page that is super popular doesn’t just stay there forever.

Also I realized that HTML Tidy isn’t 100% acurate in xHTML validation. So I corrected some validation issues based off of the W3’s specifications. The site is back to being 100% xHTML 1.0 Strict compliant which should be a nice little treat. It is also (as always) cross-browser compatible. I just did some minor tweaks in some little things that were over looked and how things were displayed. The CSS is also validated now but I use a CSS3 specification of opacity for some internal icons that don’t validateâ�� but I don’t care. The opacity CSS identifier works on IE7, Firefox and Opera and I think that is good enough for me. (more…)

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Check out FreelanceSwitch and take their Freelance survey. They are offering some cool prizes that will be awarded randomly. They intend on using the results to formulate a basic idea of the freelance community as a whole. They will provide the results publicly to everyone once they have commenced the survey.

I took it, it is quick and easy nothing too complicated to answer. I had some trouble with the how much profit I have at the end of the year thing. Which is just because I consider profit money left over after I buy all the cool things I want. Which was 0.

Take the freelance survey, it is easy and productive.

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I won’t be having link roundup today, some things came up at work today and I’m just not in the mood to put it all together right now. I will have it for you guys first thing in the morning though.

Check back around 9am or so and I should have a great collection of links from this past week from design, technology and a little humor thrown in for the perfect mix to read over the weekend.

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Fair use describes conditions under which copyrighted material may be used without permission. Today is the day when all of the pirates around the world grab their best eye patch and some fine rum. Today is Fair Use day, it is not exactly a formal holiday but it is still a practiced holiday by Fair Use supporters. (more…)

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I decided not to make a sneak preview and that I would go ahead and just implement a new design rather then waste my time making the preview. The new design will be an ongoing project and I will try to keep the layout the same so that everyone can navigate the site easily.

A few quick things about the new web site design, first the site is XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant and works on IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari and Opera all the same way. Which is always a little frustrating at times. (more…)

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I know posts have been sparse but I will assure everyone once I get settled in at my new job I will have time to post articles again and get all of the design news/design tips/design tricks/everything design that you all love and should expect out of me.

I am actually working on a new site design and I may even throw a sneak peak out at everyone to show you guys I really do still care about this web site. Most of the time I would just throw the site up and start working on content again but my time is pretty limited unfortunately so I am almost thinking a sneak peak may be more useful. At any rate expect more frequent posts from me. I am working on CRAP Design 3: Alignment for you guys right now. It should be ready sometime this next week.

Keep checking back re-add me to your RSS feeds and please be patient, much content is on the way. Also, be looking for me on the designer spotlight over at CSS Burst.

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I apologize for my lack of posts within the last few weeks, I recently started a new job with a local web design firm that has kept me pretty busy throughout the week. Once I get everything re-situated I will start posting more design articles. Until then, my deepest apologies to my readers for my lack of new content.

I will try this week, but it will probably not be until next week until I can write more web design articles and such. I promise, the wait will be worth it.

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I have completely redesigned the web site and made sure it is 100% standards compliant. I dropped all of the ridiculous tables that I was using previously — I was just being lazy. The new site is all CSS/XHTML and works in every browser as best I can tell. I haven’t tried IE6 but I don’t really care, if you are still using IE6 you need to upgrade to Firefox or Opera. I had enough trouble getting it to work in IE7. (more…)

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In the increasing meddling of companies that have just failed their current business model it seems that security firm F-Secure is attempting to suggest to the ICANN that another new domain name .safe needs to be imposed to provide a secure means for financial institutions to protect their customers from phishing. Not only is this idea just as silly as the .xxx idea but it isn’t the solution to the problem by a long shot. (more…)

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