Responsive design: Take 1

I recently completed a mini re-design of my personal website, mostly as an excuse to play around with responsive design and media queries.  I definitely picked up some “lessons learned” in the process, and thought I would share them here: 1. The fold is dead.  Long live the scroll bar. I am sure we all [...]

Switching SVN branches using Git

Git and I normally have this fabulous relationship where Git does whatever I tell it to do and I am completely in love with the fact that it actually works. However, Git and I are having one of those trying times in our relationship where I want it to do something that seems complete impossible… [...]

Goodbye 2011… Hello 2012!

It amazes me that yet another year has come and gone.  The year 2011 was quite the year, full of craziness and joy (if those two adjectives can go together). This year marked my second year working at Optaros, where I have been learning everything from YUI (2 and 3), to Drupal (6 and 7), [...]

Cheap Trick with YUI Carousel

This is just another example of why Internet Explorer 7 (and earlier) needs to die. I have been working on a project where a group of images needs to be displayed on a page, four at a time in a carousel. The site uses YUI 2.7, so naturally, I am using YUI Carousel to implement [...]

Link Post #4 – UX articles

In my (online) travels, I tend to come across a lot of articles that are centered around design and user experience.   There are so many that, to be perfectly honest, they get lost in my bookmarks.  So, instead of hiding them away in a list inside my browser that I will probably never see again [...]