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Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. See video on TED Talks Jason Fried thinks deeply about collaboration, productivity and the nature of work.…

Someone posted this on Craig’s List. I thought it was insightful and educational for people requesting services in the web industry. What really is the difference between a web designer and a web developer? The author of this post makes it clear. I’ve found that over 80% of you people who post in here looking…

This is the beginning of another cheat sheet, this time, for mobile coding. A mobile design is basically a miniature copy of your desktop designed site, usually displaying only the important information first, with links to the rest. Its design is fluid because it has to accommodate different sizes of mobile devices. Make sure you…

If you haven’t coded for email clients, you’ll learn that you have to go back to tables and use a lot of repetitive inline CSS. The following is the gist of coding HTML emails: Use tables and inline CSS styling. Use basic HTML (old-school) styling attributes first. The only one to drop is the font…

In a recent client project, it called for videos with play lists. I used Longtail’s JW player to handle this. The setup required XML files for the play list. Having not worked that much with XML before, I ran into two problems which I eventually found a solution for. Problem 1: Making XML refresh Long…