The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including: Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009 Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking WordPress Templates WordPress Overview for Beginners WordPress as a CMS Details: Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group Kickoff [...]
Best Buy Corporation is seeking a highly skilled “Front End Web Developer” with excellent front end programming skills and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability guided design principles to develop and deploy websites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise. Ideal Candidates Have: [...]
Best Buy is seeking a skilled front-end Web Developer with excellent communication and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability-guided design principles to develop and deploy web sites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise. Ideal Candidates have: Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML [...]
I found this to be a very interesting read: http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/ I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I [...]
Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.) If you managed to miss this somehow: http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/ Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t [...]
I recently crawled out from under a rather large rock, career-wise, and before I did so I made like the cool kids and got myself a Gmail account. Oh, behold the glory that is Gmail. Anyway… Reading through a discussion on CHI-WEB or sigia-l (I don’t remember which), I noticed a nifty little text ad [...]
Whew…I’m way behind on my Friday MNBits posts. Well, Summer came, and some major yard work, then we decided to remodel the bathroom, and then the kids started t-ball, and then…oh…I’m rambling. Sorry. So, on with the MNBits… script.aculo.us In addition to getting me thinking about having to now get my own ‘ious’ URL, this [...]
I apologize for using MNteractive as my notepad, but I thought this bug fix warranted an entry on the WWW at large for the next person that needs to google it. I’ve had this problem many times, and always forget the exact answer. The problem is designing a site with CSS rollovers and finding that, [...]
With security firms recommending against using Internet Explorer activity in the browser world is heating up. Aaron Swartz has a great article on the new activity. Considering HTML’s stagnation and pain, this may be hard to believe fully, but I’m serious. They talk about things like Digital Signatures, tabbed/wizard interfaces, rich text editing, spreadsheets, and [...]
Most of us get lazy when it comes to properly using ALT TEXT attributes (and, for that matter, the TITLE attribute). Here’s a reminder as to why they are so important: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-text.html#howlers