July 2009
14 posts
The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins →
As the article states, negative margins are oft overlooked when it comes to CSS, but they’re valid markup and definitely have their purposes (e.g., making your site more SEO friendly by including content first on page). If you don’t know about them or only know a little, the Smashing Magazine guide is well worth reading.
“But at the end of the night, the ‘silicon valley’ question came out....”
– Fred Wilson, Startup Hotbed Inferiority Complex
Sears Starts Christmas Sales In July →
Not a good sign for the economy, but what do I know…
College Students’ Facebook Use Easing Up Over the... →
New Huge (Terrible) Ads
I just had my first brush with one of the new ad formats. MenuPages has one of the 970 x 418 (huge) push-down ads which on my laptop, takes up half of the screen. I actually might stop using Menupages as a result. It ruins the user experience. They’re either illogical in thinking this makes sense or the content business model is in such trouble that this is their only hope (note: it...
Drupal CDN Integration Module Drops →
For those of you who are leveraging Drupal, site optimization (performance wise - not seo) just got a lot simpler with the release of the CDN (content delivery network) integration module. While still in an early form, it’ll get your pages loading lickity-split. Of course you’ll have to setup an account with a CDN (whether that’s Amazon, Rackspace, SimpleCDN, or anyone else), but...
As economy drops jobs, paychecks drop some weight →
This should be the real measure of the economy that people track - not convoluted ratios that aren’t even appropriate anymore.
“Why do they keep trying to put a camera in a phone. Cameras (without phones) are...”
– Jamie Freedman