Category: Website Development

  • Agee Design is Live!

    Agee Design is Live!

    I’m happy to announce that the Agee Design website V.1 is now live and ready for visitors! I’m very, very proud of the site, as it’s one of the best examples of my work to date. There are all sorts of cool technologies and methodologies at work. You can visit the site at http://www.ageedesign.com. The…

  • Content Aware Image Resizing

    Content Aware Image Resizing

    A friend sent this video to me and I was quite amazed at this new technology. Anyone who has ever worked with images on the web can appreciate how amazing this is!!! More information available at Oh Giazmo!  

  • Some updates to the photography section

    I’ve been tearing into the Flickr API over the last few days and I’m really excited about the possibilities! If you take a look at the photography section you’ll see some of the fruits of my labor. It doesn’t seem like a major deal to the non-developers our there but it’s actually very exciting to…

  • Looking for a way to test your iPhone apps without an iPhone?

    If you, like me, are excited about the possibility of creating rich apps for the iPhone but aren’t too excited about paying the high price for the iPhone I’ve got just the solution for you. MarketCircle, creator of the great Mac time tracking software Billings has created iPhoney, an iPhone simulator that allows you to…

  • Coda: The new web development app from Panic!

    I didn’t think it would ever happen but it has. A new web development application has come along that makes me wish Dreamweaver would get on the ball. Today Panic, a small Mac software development company released Coda, which is described as “one-window web development.â€? They’ve done some very interesting things and added some great…

  • CSS attribute selectors

    Wow. This is quite possibly one of the biggest breakthroughs I’ve made in quite some time. I’ve discovered CSS2 attribute selectors. As you may or may not know there are several ways to apply a CSS style to an element; you can add a class attribute to the element, define a CSS style that effects…

  • Moving away from table-based web design

    Moving away from table-based web design

    Back in 1997 typographer David Siegel changed the way web designers made websites; some would say he even changed the web itself. He wrote about an emerging technique for pixel-perfect designs. The technique involved combining the <table> tag with sliced images and spacer gif images to achieve a design that was all but impossible back…

  • Internet Explorer 7 steps up to the plate

    It has long been my complaint (along with most other website developers out there) that Internet Explorer (IE), which is the #1 most popular browser in use on the internet, takes many liberties when it comes to rendering HTML, DHTML and CSS. What does this mean? This means that when you’re designing a website that…

  • Announcing PhpDwgallery

    I’ve been a website developer for around 7 years, and while I love graphic design, one of my not-so-obvious loves is PHP programming. I’ve been writing PHP for around 2 years now and I’ve learned a lot of things. One of the biggest learning experiences was the process of developing the Photo Gallery for this…

  • Why I don't build websites for everyone…

    When I first started creating websites I would create one for anything and everything. I would practically beg people to let me create a website for them. I would usually host them on some free service like Geocities and Freeservers. I didn’t care at all how much the sites were used, I just wanted to…