In a recent article of mine describing how to effectively design a website I brought up the parallel of asking an architect to build you a house with no clear instructions. I recently ran across this:
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you […]

I am planning on having a full fledged store soon, but for now you can purchase my Geek Test Shirt on the marketplace at SpreadShirt here.
The shirt says:
Geek test:
if ($computers_owned > $girlfriends_had) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

Usually when building a dynamic website (such as a social networking site), you want to makes as many things as possible be automatically generated with as few inputs from the user.
Usually.
While the above remains true, there are some things that you may want to be optionally manual. Especially for the pieces of information that enable […]

I did this a long time ago in Photoshop. Just uncovered it…

Let me clear my name first: I appreciate Flash for it’s graphics, smooth presentation, and how it can bring me wonderful video online. I do not hate Flash as an application, nor do I believe it in and of itself is evil. But Flash websites… ugh. As I refer to these sites, I am speaking […]

This is the second time I’ve redesigned the site at www.casapalmera.com- and I think this second time is a huge improvement on my original design.

We launched the new site yesterday and you should definitely go check it out. Casa Palmera is an eating disorder and rehab treatment facility. Tell me what you think!

So… right now the fires are exactly right across the street from my house in Poway. I am so afraid right now… I am staying at a friend’s house in Mira Mesa. Hopefully the fires won’t come here but we keep hearing rumors that they will.
I saw the flames when I was driving over here… […]

Educational and boring- these are the first words that come to mind when I think of peer reviewed articles.
I am in General Ed at school right now and I’m in Environmental Science. It’s not too bad of a class, the teacher is very lenient and interesting in class. One of the assignments though, is to […]