There are all these great logos out there for the so-called “Web 2.0″ companies springing up every 15 minutes. How do they do it? It’s easier than you may think.

I’m going to show you how to create one of these logos in Photoshop in 5 minutes, or your money back. So fire up Photoshop, think […]

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I’m back with another entry in my series on web design. If you missed it, here is part one.

Most every professional web site out there employees Javascript to some degree. With AJAX catching on as it is, Javascript is becoming more and more popular. Unfortunately, this means that more and more sites are breaking one […]

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I remember creating my first web page back in the mid-90s. I was just learning how the whole internet thing worked and I eventually got ahold of a copy of Front Page Express and a Geocities account. The web was a different place back then - segmented and new, disjointed an unexplored. This was before the dotcom boom, and for the most part, it was a Great Unknown, a wild west populated by those who were to become the technical elite. We’ve come a long way in the past decade. CSS and standards, Web 2.0, AJAX, mashups and blogs, dotcoms and venture capital. The web is a different place than it was a decade ago, but there are some fundamental truths about the art and science of web design that have remained constant.

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In the past few months, I’ve been heavily studying web development “best practices”. Semantically-valid content, separation of content from presentation, RESTful design, and graceful degradation on in the absence of certain technologies - all of that, and more.

My buddy Jon and I have been working on a project on the side, and I’ve learned […]

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