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  • My First YouTube

    Trying to upload my first YouTube and embed it here. Of course, the editor is not helping. Let’s see if this works. It’s an old video of Ethan Dancing to Happy Days.

  • Mighty Joe Biden

    Nice article on MSNBC about Joe Biden.  Joe is the man!  Too bad he hasn’t had any Joe-menutum.  I fully support his viewpoint on Iraq.  Here is a quote from the sentate floor. “History suggests only there’s only a couple … ways to keep together a country driven by sectarian…

  • Google Analytics

    I put the urchin.js file on commadot a month ago.  It is a little file that tells Google everything that is happening on this page.  It’s quite amazing actually.  Really solid user interface. (Much better than AdWords)  Great information.  Nice use of Flash, where appropriate. Look at this image showing…

  • Background-position-y: Firefox Fails!

    I am trying to switch to the technique of 1 giant icons file.  I didn’t like the opacity filter for the disabled elements.  I really wanted grayscale.  So I had to use duplicate images.  I made a grid on my image so that the math was easy.  See image here. …

  • The UX of the Direct Marketing Page

    From the legendary Bill Mirbach: …. so here’s today’s high-value trivia question. this “website” http://www.sigsmarketingsecrets.com/, if you can call it that, sells product. navigation …. not. is there anything other than the straight down approach that would sell more stuff? in other words, could you redesign this copy approach (including,…

  • Concatenation of Images

    Great article about using concatenation of images.  I have been doing this for a while.  For me, a major trick is to make sure that the images still look good even though they might be of varying colors.  I have been considering one giant “icons” image that has all of…

  • CSS Floats, Inlines and Centering

    This problem is driving me nuts. http://www.commadot.com/jquery/simple.htm I want to make a yellow box with a red border. (Must be two divs).  I want to be able to move the yellow box and change its size and still have the red border hug it tight. I asked Experts-Exchange and got…

  • I took the Design Survery

    I hope I answered all the questions correctly. 🙂 Speaking of Web Design.  I had this minor problem.  My code looks like: <body> <div style=”border: 1px solid red; display:inline; “> <span> <img src=”anyImage.jpg” mce_src=”anyImage.jpg” border=”0″ /> </span> </div> </body> What I don’t understand is why Firefox doesn’t display properly inline. It’s…

  • Dreamweaver is dead to me.

    Well, that didn’t last long. I uninstalled Dreamweaver CS3. What a piece of garbage! Man, what the hell happened here? Macromedia (Adobe) bought a brilliant program from Nick Bradbury called Homesite. Then they proceeded to ignore Homesite and sue anyone who copied it’s innovative design. They they made Dreamweaver which…

  • Upgrade at Work

    I just upgraded my machine at work to Vista Business. This is the first “upgrade” that I did. All of the others, I was forced to do a clean install.  The upgrade process went fine.  Maybe it took a little longer than hoped (2 hours).  Good thing I had other…

  • The UX of Terror

    These days there is alot of news about terror.  Bombs in Bagdad.  Nutballs in Virginia Tech.  9/11 and Columbine still seems fresh in my mind.  I think about how people react during these terrible moments of fear.  The students in Virginia Tech apparently froze.  They hid under the desks while…

  • The UX of Sidewalks

    I was walking back from Ethan’s school yesterday on the sidewalk.  Suddenly, I noticed the lines in the sidewalk.  Without even realizing it, I had been either avoiding or hitting the lines on the purpose with my foot.  In other words, I was predicting, subconsciously, whether or not my foot…

  • New Challenge and Drupal

    Drupal 5.1 is really cool.  Much easier than I expected.  It needs a more robust Editor, but still, very good. I made a new challenge.  The hard part is going to be figuring out how to do it in all the other frameworks.  Ill do my best. 🙂  Any help…

  • js.commadot.com

    After upgrading WordPress, I was feeling lucky. I got some Powweb help and uninstalled the Drupal and Joomla that had been taking up space.  I then installed the new version of Drupal 5.1. It was almost TOO easy.  It just worked.  Wow.  Anyway, I created with it the new http://js.commadot.com.…