Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Mar 25
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

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

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

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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