Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. BY Ralph Waldo Emerson

davekilljoy AKA David B Stubbs. JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES WEB DEVELOPMENT WEB DESIGN 3D MODELING COMPUTER NERD

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Apr
05

Brief time in the Spotlight =P

This is a pretty weak blog post, but I’m going to do it anyways. A while back I had been interviewed by CTV on what User Experience Designers do at Infusion, the company where I work. Anyways long story short, one of my30 under 30 goals (coming soon..maybe) was to be on TV, and I was – you can check it out here.

Mar
21

The next evolution of twitter

twitter bird

Today I was cruising my twitter feed and it dawned on me that the next step in the evolution of the whole micro-blogging stream, is substreams.

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Jul
31

This week in Blend – Reset

Hello all, I’m trying this new weekly Blend tip thing. These will be little tips and tricks that will hopefully alleviate some of the nuances and annoyances of Blend.

This week – Reset!

A lot of the time, Blend will set margins and odd settings automatically when you are doing edits on properties (width, height) or when you are dragging objects around the Artboard. A quick and easy way to see what’s going on is by looking at the little square that is next to every property.

Blend 3 Properties Panel

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Jun
03

Intermediate CSS Techniques

Continuing from where we left off, lets take a look at some of the awesome things CSS can really do.

The Basics

Let’s start with the most common and basic CSS attributes, width and height. Once you assign a class to an element you are free to style it any way you want. We will be using this code snipet and styling it as examples.

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<div class="test">
  <p>Hello</p>
</div>

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Jun
02

Introduction to HTML and CSS

Hi! First off, welcome to my website, its a brand new design and overall an excuse to try out my newly founded PHP/MySQL chops.

So here’s the deal, I’ve been learning web development for a while now, picking up tidbits from all over the web, books and friends helping me out. Then I started thinking, the web has been so great for helping me, I feel like I should do the same, which is why I am writing the first of a long series or how to articles, tutorials and information. I’ll be covering everything sequentially, so first part will be something along the lines of intro to the web in general, HTML and CSS. The subsequent parts will cover things like advanced CSS, WordPress integration, PHP/MySQL, Javascript and more. Enough of this, lets get to it, after the jump!
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