Posted by mercutiom on Sep 28th, 2007 | 2 comments
Walk into a restaurant, pick up a menu, and notice is the overlay that they’ve done on the picture of the car behind the text.
Drive by a billboard and wonder what radius and spread did they use on the drop shadow?
See a magazine ad and wonder why they added so much outer glow on that silhouette?
Or is it just...
Posted by mercutiom on Sep 28th, 2007 | 0 comments
I’ve never been a huge fan of Internet Explorer. Even before beginning web design, I always found it to be buggy and way too easy to compromise. Now that I code, I find that it never reads the CSS I write correctly, and it has issue displaying websites the way I want it to.
So today when I logged in at work, I was annoyed to find that one of the sites I have to use IE for was coming up...
Posted by mercutiom on Sep 26th, 2007 | 2 comments
As I’ve mentioned in the past my day job is for a web hosting company. (I’ll leave it to you to figure out which one.) Daily we have hundreds of people calling in for help with their email, FTP, VPS, dedicated servers, etc., etc., etc. We try to help these people as much as we can, and we do a lot to help people even when the issue isn’t on our end.
What amazes, astounds, and...
Posted by mercutiom on Sep 25th, 2007 | 0 comments
“The current university is based off a model created in the nineteenth century in Germany.”
Class...
Posted by mercutiom on Sep 25th, 2007 | 0 comments
It’s not a mistake until you’ve saved and written it to the server.
-overheard at...