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: February 2009
StopLivingInThePast.com – the whys and hows of the IE6 movement
Feb. 26, 2009
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This is a condensed version of an article published on StopLivingInThePast.com. I urge you to read the full article. I just don’t like cross-posting which is why you only get the excerpt here. How did the IE6 campaign come about? … Continue reading
Speaking at Interactive Panel Discussion: The Right Presentation Layer for Your Solution
Feb. 25, 2009
I’ve been invited to participate in an interactive panel discussion about Microsoft’s many web development and presentation tools called “The Right Presentation Layer for Your Solution”. The discussion takes place online tomorrow (Thursday Feb. 26, 2009) at 11am to noon … Continue reading
StopLivingInThePast.com is Live – Join the Movement to Phase Out IE6 Forever
Feb. 21, 2009
I’ve had enough. After years of mangling the otherwise clean and simple code of my site designs to try to make them work properly in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) I have absolutely had it. No more! I am not willing … Continue reading
10 steps to save the newspaper
Feb. 19, 2009
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the imminent death of the traditional newspaper. And with good reason. Over the last year or so several papers, both minor and major, have gone belly up. There are many reasons for … Continue reading
Top 10 rules of Twitter etiquette
Feb. 9, 2009
This weekend the Vancouver Twitter crowd bore witness to what can only be described as an attempted social suicide live on Twitter. A relatively well followed Twitter personality decided that a late Friday night would be the perfect time to … Continue reading
Apple Tax is renamed Apple System Access Fee
Feb. 6, 2009
Ever since Microsoft introduced the term, “Apple Tax” has referred to the premium cost of buying an Apple computer as opposed to a “regular” same spec PC. The problem is that the word “tax” implies that the extra money is … Continue reading
Using WordPress in Alternate Configurations – My WordCamp Whistler 09 Presentation
Feb. 3, 2009
Finally, after a full week of catching up, here is the video tutorial version of my presentation at WordCamp Whistler 09 for those who were there and those who couldn’t come. The video is also available on WordPress.tv if you’d … Continue reading
Windows 7 Beta Report Part 1: Bugs
Feb. 2, 2009
I had Windows 7 installed on my trusted Vaio SR140D laptop a couple of weekends ago and have been running it on a near constant basis since. Now after 3 weeks or so I have compiled a list of bugs … Continue reading