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.
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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!
Consulting in Africa
Note from the Future
Speaking as if Africa is a country and commenting on the looks of of Black people right off is not good. I'm sorry.
I love the multitude of cultures I am surrounded by and working with at this consultation.
I love it when Africans look sidelong, exposing the contrasting white of their eyes against their pupils and skin.
My resume will now say that I worked with a global organization as a multi-cultural communication consultant and trainer.
I was...
Off to Uganda!
Over the past year or two, I’ve intermittently talked with a close friend of mine who is a missionary with his wife in Hungary about the possibility of going to Budapest to do website development for their missionary base. A couple weeks ago I was put in contact with the lady who is in charge of the communications for the Youth With A Mission (the organization they work with) Central European office. Apparently, YWAM CE would like to do a...
Technology Adoption Time
Chances are, if you watch TV at all, you’ve seen numerous ads about the upcoming transition from analog to digital television. Just like when the campaign ads were playing, I cannot wait for this February 17th date to pass so that I will no longer have to view the same notices again and again. Recently however, there has been an attempt to delay the transition until June 12th. This motion passed the Senate, but initially failed...
Master’s Degree
“Most of the relevant folks in the industry today don’t have graduate-level degrees in web design or development. Why? Because web design and development programs didn’t exist when we came through school. Most of us stopped going to school as soon as we realized the schools weren’t teaching us anything relevant.” - Jeff Croft (via Teach the Web and ALA: Elevate Web Design at the Univeristy Level)
Clean Up
Time to start tiding this place up, cleaning the corners, fixing the unfinished areas. While I would love to official brand myself and my work, that’s something that will take quite a lot of time. For now, I think it is important that I just shore the current design up to make it stronger. I need to get meta tags in order, update the portfolio, and sort out aspects of the blog design I didn’t initially think through very far....
Making a Comeback
I’ve restarted the barrage of communication, networking, updating, and job searching this week. I’ve checked out and responded to local Craigslist ads, updated my LinkedIn profile, and will be putting up new portfolio pieces here soon. Oh, and look, I posted to the blog! Go me. Business has been a bit slow out of my own lack of effort to find new projects, but no more! I’m making the push. I envision one of these days that effort won’t...
WebStock 2008
As I mentioned briefly in my previous post, last week I headed north to Wellington for WebStock '08, a conference for all things Web. Two days of total, unabashed geek-ery. And in the classiest manner possible I might add: you haven’t been to a conference until you’ve been to WebStock! They know how to impress around here. Let me give you a bit of a glimpse into what I experienced; later, I’ll give you a short rundown of my...