Archive for November, 2007
Great day to sell your junk
There is never a better time to put your unwanted junk on eBay. Thanksgiving brings a great deal of people in front of a computer who are avoiding family. Not to mention snagging the real early Black Friday goers or the anti Black Friday people like myself who refuse to succumb to the madness. I [...]
Optimizing HTTP requests and CSS with @media
Situation All of our sites have three style sheets, an “all”, “handheld” and “print” all necessary to a well rounded web experience. Problem They come at a cost tho, three HTTP requests each page load. It doesn’t seem too bad when you get 1000 visitors a day or each file is only 100k but it [...]
Road to validation.
Overseeing the current Wayne State University homepage is like running with a tiny pebble in your shoe. You feel it every step but your going so fast you cannot stop to take it out. Working with a site so large it can become discouraging but taking one step at a time one can accomplish anything. [...]
Shrinking a Big World.
Taking something large and packaging it into something short, sweet and understandable is a designers passion. Taking a step back it is also a programmer and teachers passion. Yesterday I had the honor to give a top down talk and tutorial of a web site manager to my Senior Seminar group. This included all the [...]