David Dylan Jessurun: Web Designer, blogger, pragmatic standardista

Web users are web-builders

stop-look-at-your-cv

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2010-01-19

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Need to build a portfolio?

I do not often do this, but when Jors from Ruwer told me about their service, I immediately felt I wanted to share this. (They are not paying me.)

Have you ever felt, or been told, that your portfolio ...

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Energy drinks, coffee and lots of scribbled notes

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2010-01-19

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Why this site sucks

Well, maybe not sucks, but it doesn't validate and is riddled with little annoying issues.

I built this theme for WordPress three incarnations of this site ago. Since then the layout has gone from fixed to ...

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final-run-away-run-away

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2010-01-18

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A dragon in Photoshop

I play Dungeons & Dragons. I admit it. I love it. Besides; it was my love of games and my interaction with the game's inventor (Gary Gygax, RIP old bear), whom I was proud to call a friend for a while, that ...

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film

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2010-01-17

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Accessible online video for keyboard-only users

When making accessible online video we all tend to think about the needs of blind and deaf users, concentrating on subtitles and transcripts. These features, while essential, can be time-consuming and ...

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digg

posted on:
2010-01-17

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How We Killed Social Media

If I go four waking hours between hearing one of these questions from a home business client, it must be a religious holiday. Everybody wants to know about social media. But they don’t want to know just ...

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sci-fi-of-cms

posted on:
2010-01-11

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The Sci-Fi of CMS templates

Introduction

In this article I want to take a look at building CMS templates.

Content Management Systems are becoming the norm when building websites. In fact, I always recommend that whatever type ...

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tips

posted on:
2010-01-03

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Some (very) simple tips, part 2

Continued from Some (very) simple tips.

I still get that nagging voice saying: “They know all that, you are not telling them anything new”, but I also still meet designers who don’t know these things. ...

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santa

posted on:
2009-12-29

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5 Lessons Learned from a List to Santa (All of Them Can Make You Money)

In my article “Your Way To The Bank” I delved into how to steer your customers towards what they need, and what you can realistically deliver within budget.

This article takes another approach, and ...

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