Can this designer also write?

At first I was like, then I was like, and now I am like…

I am pretty comfortable with using git for my project repositories, but sometimes I slip up when executing commands. Hey, we all can be lazy at points.

Forms are the bread and butter of a website. From collecting information for accounts or posting comments on your friend’s Facebook profile. Too bad many web developers only worry about the pretty aspect and not the underlying semantics of forms.

Use Facebook on a regular basis like its your coffee to your morning? I am sure if you do, you have friends in your list that fall into any of these annoying categories.

I am a structured organization freak. Being a web designer and developer — both full time and freelance, can almost drive me nuts with the multiple email address and calendars that I have to manage. Luckily, Google has helped save my sanity.

When a branch of your code base needs to be shared to other team members, but currently resides only on your local repository, making it remote is a breeze.

Getting visual ideas for a layout across to a team can sometimes be a challenge. When presented with this challenge, I rely on black and white wireframes to get the ideas to a liquid, but also considered solid state.

Well at least like it has been released. Tagging a released code base is easy as pie and pretty dang helpful when a bug arises.

Working as a team and sharing code can easily bring up conflicts. Luckily there is a cool tool out there that is gaining strength in the developer community to ease this issue.

So Twitter has made it so big that you can pay for followers now? What is wrong with that picture…

Who knew that I would set out on the adventure of trying to create the best looking and very easy to use travel information and planning website.

Sometimes I am plagued by fits of moods that take me to the design world and others to the coding. Just last week, I was hit by the must develop in Ruby bug.

Even though bandwidth is not much of a problem these days of cable, DSL or T1 lines, web designers still need to think about page load time when it comes to use of graphics.

I am not completely sure what the deal is with Internet Explorer and Javascript. I am not sure if it’s oblivious or just plain scared about using what would seem to be common programming methods.

About a month ago, Real Travel converted over to Rails from ASP.Net. Rails is packaged with the Prototype and Script.aculo.us javascript frameworks, but after in-depth research, they turn out to be very slow on the client side.

My site was finally pulled from the queue over at CSSElite and featured. I would never have known this until I checked my Google Analytic stats this morning.

To add a dramatic quality to some of the photos I take, I purposely add a technique which can also be considered a flaw if it wasn’t digitally enhanced.

This is a look into the process and decisions behind not only a redesign of a top rated travel website, but a complete code base switch. It’s been a long time coming for Real Travel and it is definitely a change for the best.

As a huge usability freak, I find usability issues everywhere or where things can definitely be improved. Walmart or even their credit card key pad is definitely not immune to this.

As a designer, like most, we are always burdened with choosing what font to work with for a project, wether it is web or print related. I am proud to say, for myself,  not anymore.

There are plenty solutions out there for quick grid layouts using CSS. Only one has stood out to me as a very easy to use layout tool. This is the story of Blueprint CSS.

Everyone has his or her own way of interacting with a web application. I know I have my own way of interacting with one of the largest online social networking sites found on the web. Watching my wife interact with the Facebook UI definitely solidifies this idea.