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Author Archives: Tom
Jumping back in
photo credit: Anamorphic Mike
I’ve been back in the States for about two weeks. It’s been great. And tiring.
Seeing friends and family has been like a non-stop amusement park. I landed in Chicago, immediately went to a wedding in Des Moines, spent the week in Minneapolis, flew to New York, came back to Minneapolis, went [...]
What else you can learn from Panic’s approach to email marketing
Campaign Monitor wrote an inspiring post titled “What you can learn from Panic’s approach to email marketing” after Panic’s recent email regarding the release of Transmit 4. I highly recommend checking it out, as the always-informative David Grenier illustrates some of the cutting-edge approaches that Panic used in the recent email.
I also recommend reading the post [...]
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Two years of blogging
It’s been two years since I started blogging. You can read my first post here.
Updating a blog regularly isn’t easy—it can feel like a chore at times. Those of you with blogs I’m sure understand. As such, I’m proud to have kept mine going for two years, and to have added at least one post [...]
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BadWords filtering AS3 class
photo credit: timsnell
I’ve worked on several projects in the past where I needed to filter out swear / naughty / bad words that are input by the user.
Finally, I got around to making a class so that I didn’t have to rewrite the filtering each time. If you have a need to filter out [...]
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Behind the new website design
Most mornings before my courses, I check through my emails with a cup of coffee. Since the time zone difference between Spain and the U.S. is pretty significant, I usually get a good idea of how the day ended back in the States, and then a few hours in class to think about what I [...]
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Thinking versus doing
photo credit: dreamsjung
One my favorite parts about designing and developing web projects is that the end result is something. A shiny new site layout, a functioning web app–it’s gratifying.
But it’s essential not to get haphazardly lured into a project because of this gratification.
If I dive in and fire up Coda or Fireworks, I’ll undoubtedly waste a [...]
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New website for a good time, a good cause
This past Friday, the relaunch of the Flip Cup World Championships’ website was completed. I’ve been a participant in this event for the past several year and it is easily one of the highlights of my year. It’s a great time, for sure, but it also serves a good cause–over $125,000 have been donated to [...]
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Ryan Singer, 37signals podcast
photo credit: cln_finch
Ryan Singer, product manager and designer at 37signals, talks about the company’s design process.
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I found this interesting as 37signals’ process relies on everyone pitching in at a variety of levels–information architecture, user experience, design and back-end development.
At times, I’ll hear that these types of a role demand a person with [...]
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North, South, East … Zest?—Guided by the brand compass
photo credit: rutlo
Shopping in a grocery store in a foreign country is a scary, intimidating and often mysterious experience. You don’t have your bearings.
Not because of differing store layouts. I’ve circumnavigated U.S. stores like Safeway, Harris Teeter, Ukrop’s, HyVee, Wal-Mart, Lund’s, Schnuck’s, and Rainbow like my name was friggin’ Cristobol Colon.
Shopping abroad is intimidating [...]
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Can you be a web designer without knowing HTML & CSS?