I’m very excited to introduce our new website ShirtsTasteGood.com. Our goal is to provide you with the funniest YouTube™ inspired t-shirts on the web! Our team consists of Lou Zell on web development, Doug and George Cline on screen printing, and myself on designing the shirts and front-end web development. Even if you’re not in the market for a new t-shirt the site offers a bunch of fun features for killing some serious time. Every shirt homepage has the embedded YouTube video that we used for inspiration. We also built a suggestion page/feed so visitors can share their favorite viral videos! Head on over and enjoy!
Time for a desktop switcharoo! I’ve had my eye on the 2001 A Space Odyssey icons for awhile and finally got a chance to put this new theme together. Most of the other 2001 wallpapers out there have HAL in the center so I figured I’d show Dave some love on this one.
I’ve always been fascinated in medical animation. The human body is infinitely complex and its hard to imagine how it all works sometimes. To me there seems no better way to explain things than with CG. Take a look at this animation I found on Wired explaining how blood vessels feed tumors. Amazing stuff!
As a freelancer staying organized and on top of all my projects is essential. Over the last few years I’ve tried a variety of GTD apps and somehow they all seemed to fall short in one way or another. Just when it all seemed hopeless along comes The Hit List… a new application included in this years Macheist bundle. Before reading any of the hype I decided to jump right into the beta version and give it a shot. Within the first day of using The Hit List I was hooked. The application is easy to use, packed with functionality (neatly tucked away so its not annoying), and an overall joy to use. The only thing missing now is an iPhone app which the Potion Factory says is already under development! Go check it out…
Actually, I do! I recently came across a great article on writing valid HTML and if it actually matters in web development. The author makes a great point that it’s usually not necessary as long as your pages display correctly to the viewer. Validating your code can also be very time consuming and impractical especially when your building a large web application. As soon as you start including various scripts and programming languages the amount of errors usually goes through the roof.
On the other hand, as a web designer/developer who tries to write clean semantic markup, having Valid HTML and CSS is way for me to show of my web development chops. Another reason to validate your code is to ensure consistency between browsers. For instance, Firefox is far more forgiving than say Internet Explorer or even Safari. For further reading make sure and check out Coding Horrors article HTML Validation: Does It Matter?
