Category Archives: Web Design

Between the worlds of designer and developer, here you will find anything from CSS to Flash Platform. Both creative, but they are two very different worlds.

Fixed Background Image In Flex

It seems like it would be easy. A large background image in the back of your flex app that doesn’t stretch the entire width and height of your browser. Unfortunately the CSS control of the current version of Flex does allow for the positioning of the background. But here is a solution… Continue reading

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It’s Just Fiction

Let’s just get this out of the way first. If you read any online review of the book The Shack then you will inevitably see someone post a negative comment about the book. Then no matter how solid the points are and no matter how clearly they are stated, inevitably someone replies in the book’s defense by saying, “It’s just a fictional novel.” The points are not rebutted. The points are not challenged. They are dismissed by this one simple statement. Continue reading

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Parsing XML in ColdFusion

In a previous post I showed how I sent XML out from ActionScript 3, here is how I parsed it in ColdFusion and created a PDF. Continue reading

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ArrayCollection to XML in ActionScript3

As I was searching the web trying to find out how to do this all I found was the opposite scenario, XML to an arrayCollection. When I finally did find a bulletin board post on this, all it said was, “LOL. Everyone always asks this.” That wasn’t so helpful so I figured I would write something up. Continue reading

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Facebook Killed My Blog

It’s happening all around the world. Blogs are either being left unattended for months at a time or worse yet, becoming victims of what’s commonly known as “mercy killing.” After all, who has time to write a semi-complete thought when you can just spit out a single sentence about what’s on your mind?

Well, this is my declaration to get this thing going again. Not right at this moment though. I’m too tired to write anything of substance and I have some work to do for my day gig.
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Shift + Paradigm = Rebrand

Well it looks like a logo redesign is in order for guiroo. (Oooo, a good opportunity to use some of those new typefaces.) It seems that the nature of the web is changing and the visual of a kangaroo is … Continue reading

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Software Release Purgatory

Here it is July 2008 and I am still running Tiger on my iMac. Leopard came out last Fall I believe. Every once in a while I get the urge to jump in the car, go to the mall, and … Continue reading

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The Rather Difficult Font Game

Test your font skills on The Rather Difficult Font Game I scored 27 out of 34.

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Month Gone By

Oh look, I missed posting for a whole month. Been busy.Just redesigned: www.forGodsfame.org Check it out! Lots more to do! 

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Mac Attack

I purchased an iPod Shuffle for Regina yesterday. And then I returned it. It turns out that they (all new iPods) require USB2 and I only have USB1 on the laptop. It’s odd to think my hardware is so outdated … Continue reading

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