Facebook Went Down
In light of the recent multi-hour Facebook downtime, I’m sure a large portion of the working world actually got work done. I thought I’d write something to keep that up.
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Booked Through July
The studio doors are currently closed through July as I am thoroughly booked, though not on your traditional web design projects.
This summer I will be taking two months to travel and do some non-business related work.
First, for the month of June I will be in Mongolia where my brother’s non-profit Edurelief is located. In addition to taking time to realign the website (primarily content and site architecture updates) I will be helping him, with others, as he begins building...
Border Radius
Yesterday I was up in Seattle attending An Event Apart‘s first one-day workshop, A Day Apart. During the second half of the day Dan Cederholm taught on CSS3’s border-radius.
Text-Shadow Anti-Aliasing
Like many people in our industry, I have been reading and learning about typography on the Web to find good ways to embed fonts using @font-face while nimbly dancing around the many complexities of different browsers and formats. It’s very exciting to see more and more sites using “non-standard” fonts. However, one of the issues we as web designers currently have to deal with is the differences in render in font hinting between browsers and operating systems.
Business as Usual?
I’ve been back from Uganda for two weeks now. I’m caught up on projects and life in general. Africa was a joy to visit, what little of the continent I got to see. At first, I wasn’t sure if it would be worth the money to go to Uganda as a consultant to Youth With A Mission—this was a volunteer opportunity. Now on the flip side though, I’m very glad I did!