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Deliberate, thoughtful design is not easy. I strive to create works that are professional, whether it’s by complying with precise standards or providing the quality clients expect. My style? Throw in two parts minimalist, one part flair, a handful of humor and a dash of cowboy. Blend until smooth.

"You better listen or he'll eat your dick."
- Derek Huff, Stepbrothers

“Back the FOUC up”

The division of presentation and structure is what makes the XHTML/CSS combo so delightful. XHTML logically divides your content while CSS appropriately applies the style. Two peas in a pod, really.

When creating a website, I’ve encountered the FOUC bug. This vulgar sounding bug stands for Flash Of Unstyled Content. When visiting a webpage for the first time, before the stylesheet…

Globes & Maps

Click click click click. Trudging through page after page of Google Image SERPs looking for that crucial graphic can be torture. The alternative? Painstakingly recreating what you need by yourself. Not anymore for Eureka! I’ve found a solution (to a tiny piece of the problem anyway.) If you’re looking for royalty-free, high detail vector format images of countries, states, or…

Using .PNG and their ability to preserve transparency

The use of .PNG is not widely used throughout my work. The advantages of using .PNG files are as follows:

  • Gamma Correction
  • Smaller file sizes (sometimes)
  • Loss-less compression
  • Up to 48-bit color
  • True alpha transparency*

*Alpha transparency allows for pixel transparency to range from 0% to 100%, allowing images to blend images together easily and create a seamless look (opposite of GIF transparency, where its 0%…

Spam bots, I smite thee! (part I: Form spam )

Spam bots are like insatiable fire ants; they’ll swarm you website and pick it apart. Before you know it, your inbox will be full of “Lesbians lOOking for cOck now” or “Free v1agr4!”.

To defeat such beast, you must know how it hunts.

These bots perform similarly to googlebots, scouring your website source code looking for tasty treats like “@” or…

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What started out as a purely web developer / SEO-centric blog has slowly degraded into the odd kitchen drawer of fancies. Now where did i put that sewing kit...

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