Top 5 reasons to switch to SASS.

I remember there was a time when CSS didn’t exist and all HTML tags were in CAPS.  But times change for the better and CSS came and now CSS3. By separating style from form design was much easier to implement.  SASS is basically a tool that makes CSS quicker and easier to implement. I’ve been (read more)

Web 3.0 Why Separate Style, Content, Form and Function?

Let me explain what those mean in regard to the web, and then give you the top three reasons to care about dividing the labors. Style, content, form and function is one way to clarify what goes into web design. Style is your colors, your curves, your sassiness and aesthetic. It’s the (static) visual fun (read more)

Designing for Distraction: Engagement

Today, I present the second part of a two-part article on Designing for Distraction (click for slides). Yesterday, we looked at who the distracted are, what distracts them, and how to design for them. Today we’ll talk about Designing for Engagement (or Readers-First Design). For Engagement When we design to eliminate distractions, we design for (read more)

Designing for Distraction: The Distracted

Today, I present the first part of a two-part article on Designing for Distraction (click for slides). One of the key changes we’ve had since the advent of the internet is the increasing emphasis on design. And digital design is evolving more and more into a focused and engagement centered practice.  Designing for distraction, both (read more)

Increase WP Upload Size Max

    So I was having a problem with uploading a large video to a wordpress site, and I came across this site: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-the-maximum-file-upload-size-in-wordpress/ And let me share my experience and what worked, as I did finally get it to work. Like in all things I started with number 1 of the three ways. Which was to adjust (read more)

Dreamhost Hosting Special!

Dreamhost is who I use for hosting and most of my Domain registrations. They’re great and I love their constant improvements (they recently upgraded to SSDs for their Virtual Private Servers without increasing costs). They have a great special right now for their shared hosting. I used their shared hosting for quite awhile and it (read more)

GIT $home directory using Powershell

So I’ve been trying to get GIT to start in “D:\Google Drive\Grad school\Adv web 2” and for the life of me I couldn’t get it to work. I also wanted to change my $home variable so I can quickly move around. There are some great sites with some answers if you’re using pure Git Bash: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7017143/git-bash-how-to-default-to-other-directory-instead-of-home-directory (read more)

“Big Data” Ethics

Big Data is changing the shape of business and our personal lives.  Everyday, whether we know it or not someone is doing data analysis on us.  Think about that. Some corporation is doing data analysis on you, possibly hundreds of times a day.  Should we be creeped out? Well of course, and perhaps not. Big (read more)

Ojai Olives video

This week for Photoshop class, we followed a Lynda.com tutorial, and then created a brand identity and video. (This is for class and I’m not affiliated with Ojai or Lynda). I decided to go with a more modern feel, a little edgy, hoping to appeal to a young adult demographic (fastest growing wine demographic right (read more)

Aggregation Primer

What is Aggregation? Aggreation is taking various sources and combining them into a useable form. And Aggregation can be used for a variety of purposes.  Some traditional Aggregation type publications are encyclopedias and Readers Digest.  Readers Digest is a great example, because it takes already published articles and places them together in a new binding. (read more)