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Gridded Layouts and Simplified Markup
Mar 4th
Really sold on gridded layouts lately. Loving the SASS version of 960.gs provided as a plugin for Compass. Albeit, have made some of my own improvements to it so my custom one is a little better. Will share that later.
For now, recommended you check out the following projects:
- Compass; specifically video demo
- SASS markup language; better than CSS
- HAML markup language; better than (X)HTML
- 960.gs, its sketch pdf, and its SASS Compass Plugin equivalent
- 960 Gridder javascript overlay bookmark
- A List Apart: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid article
- Text Gridder javascript overlay bookmark (my own)
- Sparkup markup language; specifically video demo
- Sparky my Compass-like compiler for Sparkup
Very cool combination for Rapid Application Development (RAD). Especially applied to web design.
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Loading ...Coding standards are critical
Jan 19th
Odds are, if term coding standards is new to you, you are wasting time on a daily basis arguing over the syntax semantics of your programming language. (e.g. tabs or spaces? 4 spaces or 2? print or echo? etc.)
Programmers are required to make hundreds to thousands of micro-decisions like this every day, and especially when there is no standard, this costs time and time is money. If you were to benchmark the programmer’s brain, you could begin to see exactly just how much time is wasted asking, answering, remembering, and changing each answer.
This form of unorganization has many more side effects than one, however.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Born on a Curvy Day
Jul 25th
I was born on a Saturday which is a curvy day in the genius mind of Daniel Tammet. This is one thing we have in common.
Daniel is an extremely rare savant gifted with almost unimaginable mental powers, much like the Rain Man (based on the real-life story of Kim Peek, from Salt Lake City, Utah).
But Daniel is different—he leads a fully independent life, his own company, his own book, and maintains his own blog.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Learn Ruby on Rails on Windows!
Jul 24th
If you are interested in learning Ruby on a Windows machine I recommend spending a weekend to read the free online book Programming Ruby and downloading InstantRails and RadRails to begin testing the Ruby code snippets it will show you.
After that, I recommend Agile Web Developent with Rails by the-one-and-only David Heinemeier Hansson.
For support while learning hop on freenode.net and join #ruby-lang and #rubyonrails. The crowd is very enthusiastic and willing to answer your questions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Banners vs Contextual Ads
May 4th
This is something I’ve been trying to say for a long time now.
From Aaron Wall’s SEO Book:
Banners vs Contextual Ads:
Many web surfers have become banner blind and ignore the top part of a page. Banners have horrible conversion rates.
I do not usually use the default banner size unless I feel it fits well with the site design. The best revenue options are usually link rentals or context-based text ads.
Good advertising does not look like advertising.
One site that I work with sells links for over $500 a month per link and only made about $30 a month off AdSense. Other times AdSense can make far greater profits. Depending on the market, it may be best to use one or the other or a combination of both.
This is especially true for me because I use Firefox with the AdBlock
extension and Filterset.G extension installed. I haven’t seen a banner
ad in almost a year.
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