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Odds & Sods

Webkit { background: transparent;} bug

April 22, 2010

I’m a Huuuuge fan of the Webkit Open Source Project. It’s the engine behind Safari, Apple’s browser for both OS X and Windows. If you haven’t used it, give it a try. It’s my most…

PCFD Site Update

April 15, 2010

This week we launched a new version of the Park City Fire District site. The design remained the same (for the most part), while the back end was completely rebuilt on WordPress. View the site…

Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now)

April 13, 2010

With the launch of the new site I decided to try once again to give @font-face another try. I’ve been disappointed in the past with how most browsers render embedded fonts, including Firefox on both…

Small Business R&D

December 29, 2009

The term ‘R&D’ is usually heard in context of big industrial corporations and the pharmaceutical industry. It also brings to mind big budgets, big spending, big dollars, big big big. The most successful big companies…

Dropping MobileMe

December 20, 2009

10/21/2011 Update: This is an article from 2009 about moving from MobileMe to Google for syncing of contacts, calendars, and email. While I did move away from MobileMe at the time, I’ve since transferred nearly…

Gravity Forms vs Every Other Form

November 6, 2009

If you have a website, it’s virtually a given that you have a contact page with a form on it for collecting messages from your users. Pretty much everyone does. Which is why if you…

iChat: Multiple Accounts, One Contact List

September 24, 2009

Nov 2011 OSX Lion Update: Chax does not currently work in Lion. The main reason I used Chax was to consolidate contact lists across IM services, which is now included in the new version of…

Why we don’t do Flash

September 8, 2009

In the early days of Spigot Design, Flash based websites were all the rage. We’ve long since learned new tricks, and as a result have pretty much dropped Flash based work all together. Not a…

Chamber of Commerce Email List Update

August 26, 2009

Just a quick update on the Park City Chamber email list article from back in May. The plan was to take the 1200 or so contacts from the Chamber list and send one last unsolicited…

Fresh Foundation for Spigot

August 25, 2009

As a professional web designer, it comes with the territory that one’s own site is rebuilt on a fairly routine basis. So lately I’ve been spending my nights and weekend work hours rebuilding spigotdesign.com. The…