By aprilholle | art forms, links of the week, viral marketing
Ever work with glitter and wonder if you’re ever going to get rid of the stuff? If so, you need this poster. Everyone is trying to do something viral for Christmas this year, Tattoo Santa is by far the best I’ve seen
Tags: christmas, craft supplies, funny posters, glitter, graphic-design, posters, santa, tattoo santa, typography, unique graphic design, viral marketing, viral marketing campaigns, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos
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By aprilholle | accessibility, general observation, links of the week, project management, things to do
Welcome to the first week of LINKS OF THE WEEK! I come across some great informative and humorous content online, and I want to share that.. with all of you. Enjoy! Wonderful cartoon explaining the communication struggle in development of applications. Happy Webbies is like Happy Bunny for web geeks. Check out the animated talking
Tags: account management, communication, design, development-time, external-links, gameing subculture, gaming, Happy-Webbies, happy_bunny, informative content, interesting links, links, online communities, online subculture, project management, project-process, screen readers, ux, viral marketing, web accessibility
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, technology reviews
Making the web cleaner, one project at a time… Remember the Cascade To Reduce Selector Use Try a minimalistic approach to the number of ids and selectors you create. Use the cascade to your advantage by creating child elements of your current class instead of creating a whole new class to describe what you want
Tags: Cascading-Style-Sheets, css, css efficiency, css selectors, css-continued, css-file, css-stylesheets, doubling up css classes, front-end-architect, front-end-development, shorthand css, style-sheets, stylesheet, stylesheets
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS
Keep it Together Man! Always keep your styles in external style sheets when possible. Inline styles, while they seem handy when you just need to make a quick update, will spell trouble in the future when you need to make full design changes. They also make troubleshooting that much more difficult since you have to
Tags: Cascading-Style-Sheets, code organization, css, css selectors, css-continued, css-file, css-stylesheets, front-end-architect, front-end-development, naming-conventions, Print-Style-Sheets, style-sheets, stylesheet, stylesheets, typography
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, self-reflection
CSS is easy enough to start to learn, but it really takes some practice to master and understand the beautiful efficiency it provides. These techniques of efficiency separate the apprentices from the masters in the art of CSS. Now that I know what I know now, I wish someone would have told me these secrets
Tags: blog series, Cascading-Style-Sheets, css, css-continued, css-stylesheets, front-end-architect, front-end-development, style-sheets, stylesheet, tutorials, Web-Design
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, new idea!, user experience
Love website design and development? Love the people who make it great? Check out Happy Webbies! It’s like Happy Bunny for web geeks. You can get desktops of your favorite web gurus bashing bad design or better yet, Eric Meyer can span your chest on your very OWN eric meyer happy webbies TEESHIRT! Watch out!
Tags: design, eric_meyer, Happy-Webbies, happy_bunny, new idea!, user experience, webbies, web_geeks, web_gurus, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, new idea!, seo, speaker reviews, things to do, viral marketing
So I got to sit down with Brian Shaler yesterday during the Phoenix BarCamp and really pick his brain regarding his recent boost in popularity on the net. I’ve been on a big personal branding kick and I’m trying to talk to anyone who’s someone to ask them how they “did it”. Not necessarily to
Tags: advertising & marketing, applications, April-Holle, artistic-expression, artistic-work, barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, brand-identity, branding, Brian-Shaler, business, business-communication, Chuck-Reynolds, communication, Crappy-Graphs, created-in-flash, digg, Google, google-results, inspiration, interactive-flash, interests, internet-stars, loyalty-programs, new idea!, personal-brand, personal-branding, personal-experiment, personal-photography, personal-relationships, personal_investment, phoenix-lifestyle, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, rebranding, Search-Engine-Optimization, search-term, seo, ShalerJump, Social-Networking, social-networks, speaker reviews, StumbleUpon, things to do, Twitter, user-interaction, video-blogging, viral marketing, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos, web-broadcast, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-industry, web-video, web-workshops, web_professionals, web_workers
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By aprilholle | new idea!, new technologies, speaker reviews, technology reviews, things to do
I had a GREAT TIME at the 2008 Phoenix BarCamp today! I was a little… OK maybe more like VERY nervous about having to stand up in front of people and tell them about things that I might have some expertise in. But once I saw that everyone else was just as informal, I got
Tags: barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, being-open, building-great-teams, building-teams, business, business-communication, business-relationships, business_owner, business_owners, command-and-control, command-and-control-culture, common_sense_approach, communication, company-goals, company-values, company-vision, corporate-culture, corporate_environments, creative-culture, creative-teams, creatives, Derek-Neighbors, employee-investment, employee-moral, employee-values, enjoy-work, enjoying-work, Escape-from-Cubicle-Nation, fun-at-work, fun-work-environments, great-employees, Integrum-Technologies, interests, internal-communication, new idea!, new technologies, open_honest_communication, Pam-Slim, Pamela-Slim, personal-investments, personal-relationships, personal_investment, phoenix, Phoenix-BarCamp, phoenix-lifestyle, Phoenix-web-events, Refresh-Phoenix, speaker reviews, team-building, team-goals, team-management, team-work, technology reviews, technology-conference, things to do, true_interests, web-community, web-workshops, web_industry, web_professionals, web_workers, work-atmosphere, work-environment, working_environment
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By aprilholle | new idea!, speaker reviews, things to do
Alright so at this point everyone has read the 2007 Web Design Survey at A List Apart. If you haven’t, you should… really. This is the first time we’ve ever had a survey for the web industry alone, and while it’s not necessarily scientific, it is a good sampling of the community, nearly 33,000 web
Tags: 2007-Web-Design-Survey, A-List-Apart, advertising_firm, bachelors_degree, backend-technology, blog-frequency, blogging, broad-technical-understanding, Cascading-Style-Sheets, college_graduate, design_advertising, design_survey, employee-moral, employment_possibilities, experience-design, female_web_designers, highest_paid, information_architects, new idea!, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, project management, racial_rift, Refresh-Phoenix, salary_data, salary_range, self_employed, speaker reviews, things to do, usability_experts, ux-design, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, Web-Design-Survey, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-industry, web-industry-salaries, web-salaries, web_industry, web_professionals, web_workers, working_environment
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By aprilholle | life news, new technologies, technology reviews, user experience
As an early Christmas gift to myself I went ahead and bought an iPhone. I’ve been debating for quite a while about plunking down the change for one, but eh, there just really isn’t a better phone out there right now, and there isn’t going to be for a while. So, why not. I LOVED
Tags: Apple, AT&T, cell-phone, cell-phone-coverage, Cingular, iPhone, iPhone-review, life news, More-bars-in-more-places, new technologies, technology reviews, user experience
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