Design & Development Blog
Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Mar 25
2014
2014
Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP
I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it's great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it…
Mar 19
2014
2014
Tesla, and Why Buying A Car Is So Awful
With the recent news about New Jersey kicking Tesla out of their state, here's an apt rebroadcast of a Planet Money podcast: Why Buying…
Mar 17
2014
2014
Hide title attribute on hover, but don’t remove
A client of ours uses PrettyPhoto to show galleries of artwork and they recently requested that we change up the way in which the…
Mar 10
2014
2014
Dropbox: Moving a shared folder
I recently reorganized our Dropbox file structure and ran into an issue with shared folders no longer being shared. That prompted me to Google:…
Mar 7
2014
2014
@font-face not rendering in Chrome
Since launching the latest version of Spigot last week there has been an intermittent issue with our @font-face fonts not rendering (We serve web…
Mar 5
2014
2014
The basics of maintaining a website
Owning a website comes with certain responsibilities. You can’t just build it and forget it. Well you can, but regular website maintenance is a…
Nov 8
2013
2013
Real Salt Lake
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y] We took the kids to see Real Salt Lake defeat LA Galaxy at Rio Tinto last night. It was an exciting match and…
Nov 6
2013
2013
Elegant Gentleman’s Animated Paintings
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-7IV2qryiQ&w=650] This is a bit different than the illustrated videos I usually post, but it was simply too good not to share.
Nov 5
2013
2013
What’s your Style?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjYZp6DENE&w=650] Even though I'm not a fan of the mustache, I can certainly support what movember.com stands for. And awesomely illustrated videos.
Nov 5
2013
2013
What CSS Measurements to Use When
Here's a great list of general CSS measurement unit guidelines from Dudley Storey. http://demosthenes.info/blog/775/Which-CSS-Measurements-To-Use-When