December 2, 2007 @ 8:57 am | by spxds

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. Their goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently.

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November 20, 2007 @ 1:57 pm | by spxds

According to two Penn State researchers , telecommuting is good both for workers and their employers. The two psychologists looked at 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, covering 46 previous studies of telecommuting involving more than 12,000 employees. And they found that ‘telecommuting is a win-win for all.

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October 13, 2007 @ 5:03 pm | by spxds

What’s new in my world of designing and coding? Nothing much, but working on a few new things from site layouts to logos. I’ve also just released a new template that I custom designed for the new blog over at AlterCube. This template is made for WordPress and exactly matches their current site design too. I thought instead of using a pre-made template, I would just make the blog blend in with the rest of the site.

I recently set up a new blog for them by using WordPress, which replaces the old Php news system I custom coded for them a couple of years ago. The old system is not dead yet, it will still be used for the older archives and some back end things of the site.

So that’s it for me as far as the designing updates goes… I’m still working on a new desktop for this month and a few other things like icons, cards, and templates for wordpress too. Maybe I might just release one of the templates I’m designing as a download, If I did it would be under the Creative commons licenses .

September 20, 2007 @ 11:03 am | by spxds

In no particular order 55 reasons for me to do “tableless” websites using valid XHTML for markup, CSS for layout and Flash sparingly, only as an ingredient. By tableless I mean avoiding tables (or a tagsoup of unnecessary divs substituting table trs and tds) for layout purposes and aiming towards as semantic markup as possible…

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May 26, 2007 @ 11:41 am | by spxds

We’ve compiled a list, online and off to serve up everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking. Kick back and let your senses run wild as we bring you 15 websites packed full of inspiration, 10 must-have books and 9 things to do to get inspired. Another goodie from FreelanceSwitch.

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April 24, 2007 @ 9:53 pm | by spxds

“What Xcode is to app development and what Dashcode is to widget development — that’s what Coda is to web development. Replace Coda’s (lovely) green leaf icon with some sort of blueprint-with-a-tool-on-top and it’d be easy to convince someone that it’s “Webcode”, a new app from Apple itself.”

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March 30, 2007 @ 10:23 pm | by spxds

Pretty cool if you’re on a mac and want to mail a web page to someone. Just load the website in Safari and hit the keyboard command ⌘I. or just go to File-> Mail Contents of This Page

[tags]mac, tips, osx, mail, [/tags]