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Archive for October, 2007

ASP .Net 2.0 Login Control Formatting

By aprilholle | ASP .Net, XHTML/CSS, technology reviews

There are sometimes when I truly wonder if designers and developers have it out for me. Take for instance, the ASP .Net 2.0 login control. The designer wants it to look one way, however the .Net login control call only gives you so many options for style and layout. What is a front end architect

Internet Stars are Viral Video

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, new idea!, things to do

If you spend any time at all watching viral videos online or are into viral marketing, you NEED to watch this video! The team over at Cakke has mashed together some of the greatest viral moments (online and off) into one amazingly funny video. It’s really interesting to note just how many of them you

Layer Tennis: Grats to Jason Santa Maria!

By aprilholle | art forms, things to do

Game, set, match! Every Friday Coudal Partners, hosts a live weekly match of layer tennis. For those of you who aren’t familiar with layer tennis, it’s a design game where two elite designers are pitted against each other in a design-off. Each designer has an allotted amount of time to return his serve, in Coudal’s

sIFR 3.0 Inline

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, flash, new idea!, new technologies, technology reviews

Recently we’ve completed four sites for Civigroup Companies. Within those sites you’ll notice several instances of sIFR (flash replacement text) inline with content. This is no easy task for sIFR text. While trying to accomplish this feat of magic, I spent quite a bit of time researching different aspects of sIFR and how it works

Facebook Developers Garage in Phoenix

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, new technologies, things to do

What is a Facebook Developers Garage? It’s an opportunity for developers, marketers and any one else to learn more about Facebook, Facebook applications, marketing through Facebook applications, building applications and everything in between. Highlights of the event include a presentation by Dave Morin of Facebook on Platform and a detailed look at the evolution of

Local Lifestyle Magazines Recieve Facelift

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, advertising & marketing, life news, technology reviews

This was the first website in which we were really able to experiment with large scale theme usage and I learned quite a bit about how to make the front end flexible enough to reskin

Seth Godin: How To Create a Great Website

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, project management

Seth Godin recently posted his top 10 principles to create a great website. I really agreed with his perspective and wanted to elaborate with my own views

Bill Buxton: What Makes a Good UX Designer?

By aprilholle | project management, speaker reviews, user experience

“I don’t want a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I want “T-Shaped People”, People who have a broad understanding of the whole field (the horizontal part of the T) but then have deep understanding and perspective in one discipline in particular ( the vertical part of the T).”

Couture Book – Build Your Own Photo Book

By aprilholle | art forms, flash, new technologies

The flash appilcation we’ve created allows the user to pick cover options, upload photos, select personalized options, review their book and then purchase

Print Style Sheets and ASP.Net Themes

By aprilholle | ASP .Net, XHTML/CSS, new technologies

If we declare themes in the @ page declaration using StyleSheetTheme instead of just Theme the document is then populated with the css stylesheets at the beginning of the head declaration instead of at then end