Slot Machine Tabs

I was looking at the features page of a web service called Fluxiom. I haven’t used the product (although it looks pretty nice and might be good few a couple of our clients). It’s the tabs on that page that …

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The Abstraction Point

Reader Joe Bob sent me a link to IxEdit to ask what I thought. I hadn’t heard of it, so I checked it out. They have a six minute video you can watch which explains it pretty well. In a …

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#83: Thoughts on SEO

Fair warning: more rambling than usual. Listen to my thoughts about SEO. What I think I know is that SEO is a series of fairly obvious best practices. A SEO service that helps you with those things can be good, …

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Middle Box Links

Worst name ever, but I was having a hard time naming it and that seemed to fit the bill. This is the end result:

It covers a variety of things I thought were interesting:

  • jQuery 1.4’s new element creation syntax
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Estimating Projects

I like the way that we estimate projects1 at Chatman Design2. I think it epitomizes “real world” web design. We do our best to streamline the process and have a methods to the madness. But a lot …

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Triple Click Event

$.event.special.tripleclick = {

    setup: function(data, namespaces) {
        var elem = this, $elem = jQuery(elem);
        $elem.bind('click', jQuery.event.special.tripleclick.handler);
    },

    teardown: function(namespaces) {
        var elem = this, $elem = jQuery(elem);
        $elem.unbind('click', jQuery.event.special.tripleclick.handler)
    },

    handler: function(event) {
        var elem = this, $elem = jQuery(elem), 
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LessConf3010

I’ll be heading down to Atlanta, Georgia to attend LessConf3010 on May 21/22, 2010. They can say it better than I can:

LessConf is a conference with talks ranging from startups to design to marketing to business. It’s a casual

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Data URIs

Did you know that you don't have to link to an external image file when using an <img> element in HTML, or declaring a background-image in CSS? You can embed the image data directly into the document with data URIs. The end result can be a site with all the less HTTP Requests, but at what cost?
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Update December 2011: This bug is fixed in Opera 11.60

This is a bit of an interesting number. Google turns up a number of bug-related threads. The reason it came up for me, is that I get a lot of …

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Indeterminate Radio Buttons

There is a pseudo class selector, :indeterminate, whose job it can be to select radio button inputs which are neither selected (have attribute “checked”) or unselected (don’t have that). This is a CSS3 selector, which may be in response to …

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