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I decided that on my main site that I wanted the comments I made to appear different than the others (after all, why not inflate that ego?). I wrote a tutorial on integrating the Official Comments plugin with the Glued Ideas theme. ›› Go To Tutorial (read more...)

I remember when I first learned of AJAX, and I remember thinking: “I’ll never figure that out.” Well, remember when you never thought you’d learn how to remove the underline on your links with CSS? That proved easier than we thought (we later found out that CSS is an amazingly powerful presentation language). We need to cut through the needless language and get to the meat of AJAX. We don’t need to worry about what the XMLHttpRequest object is at this point. Often designers only need to know enough to duplicate an effect and not (read more...)

Every web designer has a top 10 list of things that piss them off in web design. I helped teach a class on introductory web design, and I constructed the following list to hopefully keep those students from making the same mistakes I did. 1. Be cognizant of other viewers and demographic. When we design for the web, we must understand that the majority of the time your website will not look the same as you see it on your screen. Web design is a difficult field, because the designer has some many constraints in designing their sites. Here (read more...)

For my senior thesis project in my MIS degree I wanted to show the organic relationship between marketing and the architecture of an information system. The goal of the thesis is to show that with one the other cannot properly exist. Besides the topic of information architecture, usability is also discussed as an important component of a successful web application. The Role of Marketing in Information Architecture (read more...)