Stealing other web designer’s work

Added March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 9 Comments
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Not sure about other web designers out there, but I get livid when I see other web companies taking credit for work that my company produced. It’s one thing when you use someone else’s work as inspiration for your own–I’m totally cool with that, and guilty of doing the same. But to blatantly take credit [...]

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Upgrade Internet Explorer 6 or DIE

Added March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 5 Comments
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Internet Explorer 6 sucks, use this Wordpress plugin to help banish its existence.

In the ongoing quest to banish Internet Explorer 6 from all traces of existence here on the world, The Wordpress Plugin Upgrade Internet Explorer 6 or DIE is totally contributing to this fight.

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Web developer quiz: Name a hosting company that used to be good but now sucks poo from a straw

Added February 25th, 2009 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 7 Comments
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I’ll give you hints. Their main color is red. They tout themselves as the best. They were bought out or something, and started going downhill. They had knowledgable tech support people at one point, however they were replaced with idiots. The sales staff has so much enthusiasm that you almost get the hint they have [...]

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Dreamweaver doesn’t allow you to drag files or folders from your desktop to Dreamweaver’s ‘files’ box

Added November 21st, 2008 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 2 Comments
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Adobe's Dreamweaver CS4 has problems.

There are a couple of things about Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 that really chap my ass. I cannot believe you STILL cannot interact with the normal OS X dialog. Apparently Windows versions suffer no such deficiency.

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Spammers are the most entertaining writers

Added November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 1 Comment
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Web designers get way, way too much spam email.

I bet you one hundred pennies that web designers get a lot more spam email than the typical web user human.

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How to setup a proper Web Designer’s Home Office

Added September 29th, 2008 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 6 Comments
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Here's how to setup your very own web design office studio.

Many aspiring web designers think they need a huge, fancy office, with all the latest and greatest computers and software to create professional websites. I’m hoping to disprove this myth, and show you that you can build fantastic websites for clients, right from your couch.

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Zimbio.com sucks, Bloggers should avoid them like the plague

Added August 26th, 2008 | Posted in Web Design Help & Tutorials | 1 Comment
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Ok, I have tried for over a month to have my account at Zimbio removed. I have sent email after email to their support@zimbio.com email address, to absolutely no avail. My account still remains, and these shit eaters never got back to me once. For you bloggers out there considering using Zimbio… I’m sure you [...]

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In Photoshop, you can cycle through the various tool choices by holding the Shift key. For example, pressing the M key selects the Marquee Tool. Holding Shift key and pressing M cycles back and forth between a square marquee selection and the circle marquee selection. With the Brush tool (B) its the same deal… Shift + B cycles through the Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, and the Color Replacement Tool.

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