Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Bridging Media – Some thougts
Mar. 29, 2008
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I attended a very interesting one day conference in Vancouver today called Bridging Media. The intent of the conference was to open the channels of communication between the broadcast and digital media communities. We aim to increase an understanding of … Continue reading
Most Popular Browsers (or Why You Need to Code for Internet Explorer 6)
Mar. 26, 2008
I ran some stats today on this blog and Dabbler.ca to see what browsers people use to view the site. The results were pretty much as expected and prove that even though Internet Explorer 7 has been out for quite … Continue reading
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Mar. 24, 2008
And now for something completely different: The smart little anti-commenting-spam filter Akismet has been working overtime for me since I re-installed this blog in January. And over the weekend, it broke the 8,000 spam comments captured mark. That’s 8,000 ads … Continue reading
Center a Page Horizontally Using CSS – An Expansion
Mar. 22, 2008
This is an expansion to Anna Ullrich’s tutorial Center a page (horizontally) by using CSS which can be found on her blog. I’m picking up where she left off, so if you are confused about where we are when we … Continue reading
Expression Web 2 Beta Bug Report
Mar. 17, 2008
I’ve been working with Expression Web 2 Beta for two weeks now and I’ve found it to be a vast improvement from the first release. I’ll get back to that in a later post but right now I want to … Continue reading
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web – Start things right
Mar. 15, 2008
I always say that unless you start things right, you’re going to run into problems somewhere down the line. Nowhere is that more true than in building websites, especially if you venture into the realm of standards based scripting. Fortunately … Continue reading
Expression Design 2 Beta – HUGE Improvements
Mar. 14, 2008
I’ve had a chance to play around with Expression Studio 2 Beta for about a week now and I can tell you there are some huge improvements in the new releases. Today I’m going to limit my scope to Expression … Continue reading
WordPress as CMS – The Project
Mar. 12, 2008
I’ve been talking about this for a while now and it’s time I got a little more specific. It is my contention that with some small tweaks, WordPress can be used as an excellent Content Management System (CMS) and used … Continue reading
Silverlight in Opera (but no Silverligth 2 – at least not yet)
Mar. 12, 2008
Silverlight is supposed to support the excellent Opera web browser, but there is a long road between theory and reality. As of right now, a clean instal of Silverlight will not function at all in Opera, even with the “masking” … Continue reading
Is Silverlight the end of Flash?
Mar. 11, 2008
I got a couple of emails about my post yesterday from angry web devs who wanted to complain about my Microsoft Fanboi attitude toward Silverlight. I won’t post the emails themselves here (let’s put it this way: had they been … Continue reading