http://www.bogeywebdesign.com CSS, Web Standards and Front End Web Design Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:20:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just another quick post today. I plan to elaborate more on my Iron Man one from earlier this week, but haven't had the time. Why? Ebay. I've been attempting to sell some of my hot standard cards as well as some extra cards I have lying around. ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/09/tips-accepted/ So, I've been living under a rock and hadn't yet seen the trailer. Looks awesome: ShareThis http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/07/i-am-iron-man/ In case you've been living under a rock, you should know by now that Charlton Heston is dead.  One of my favorite feeds is from The Ferrett.  Besides having a cool name, being personal friends with one of my professional idols Eric Meyer, writing for Magic the Gathering, and being ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/06/i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself/ So I have been conspicuously bereft of posts for quite a while - a fact I blatantly ignored in my recent posts. Two reasons for this. One is that I desperately wanted to update my site - the user interface, more RSS feeds to the sidebar for my ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/02/helium-marketplace/ So I've had a couple of months to digest this one. I didn't want to post anything until I could step back and look at the issue without confusing my thoughts. The Patriots are my home team and as such there is always a resentment when they lose. ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/03/30/18-1/ Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a strategy to allow a site to rank in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask) for terms. Typically the goal is to rank in the top ten for terms relevant to the main focus of the site and within the top 1-2 pages (10-30 results typically) ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/03/28/search-engine-optimization-seo-techniques/ It was one year ago that I had to make that trip. The vet had called me and told me that although things had been looking up the day before, when Mugsy woke up this morning and the vet looked at her, he knew she would not recover. ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/10/13/mugsy-a-friend-remembered/ Figured I would give my good friend Paul at work a little link juice - although based upon comparing his Technorati rating to mine it might actually hurt him (he's way more popular, but I'm still single and can take advantage of all the blog groupies so it's a trade ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/27/shameless-plug-blog-de-puree/ I'll admit it, I didn't know that much about Motley Crue. I only have one album - which I believe is a greatest hits they put out a few years ago - and I was (relatively) young during their glory days. But a friend passed this on to ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/26/book-review-the-dirt-confessions-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-rock-band/ I was reading that Microsoft is valuing Facebook at around $10 billion.  The kicker?  Facebook is holding out for a $15 billion valuation. I'm not an expert on web 2.0 values, however I do remember the web 1.0 bust (just in time for my college graduation with a shiny degree in ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/25/facebook-overvalued/ This is something I drafted up for a discussion on our boards at work and figured I'd pilfer as content. If I'm going to do the work anyways, might as well get some content for my site. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a tricky subject but one of the most ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/24/seo-linking-strategies-from-outside-sources/ So I just finished watching the Patriots beat the Chargers 38-14 and the general feeling I get is one of vindication.  All week Coach Belichick has been villainized for what happened against the Jets. Let me say that what he did was wrong and we were punished severely - to the ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/16/we-believe-in-belichick/ So I've been on a sort of 3 month hiatus this summer - don't judge me. Between work, life, riding my motorcycle, my niece and various other distractions I was just not able to concentrate on providing any quality content or new templates. I figured nothing was better ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/14/retro-gaming/ I've had these thoughts for almost 2 weeks now.  Ever since I heard my uncle has passed away.  The last time I saw him was over a year and a half ago.  He was very sick at the time and from what he told me and what I saw I ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/11/my-uncle/ When you get a MySpace friend invite... from your 10 year high school reunion. The added irony is I added a friend from high school... and they didn't believe it was me.  If that's not funny, I don't know what is. I know, MySpace is horrible.  I actually use Facebook more, but ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/08/04/how-you-know-youre-old/ Gripe has now grown, and I apologize, but I think in this case it's worth it.  My house has not the most basic, but one of the most basic options from Comcast and recently NFL Network stopped working on it.  I did a search on Yahoo and came up with ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/07/22/nfl-network-and-comcast/ I have been lax in my postings but I am working on several revisions, templates and a reskin of the site.  That, plus personal commitments has kept me away. I did want to announce that I am the proud uncle and godfather of one Victoria Madison.  She was born around 5pm.  ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/30/proud-uncle/ I'm a big enough man to admit when I'm wrong. Well, sort of. Almost since I began this blog, back when it was hosted on wordpress, I have been singing the accolades of del.icio.us. Recently I had begun to expand out and see what else there is ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/09/sweet-magnolia/ My good friend from work Jason just recently donated his kidney to a friend of his.  Didn't ask for anything, just heard his friend needed one, got tested and gave it up.  The more I get to know him the more I like Jason.  He really is a good guy.  ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/07/better-man-than-me/ TechCrunch reported the other day that Ebay has acquired StumbleUpon.  They are definitely one of the more interesting web 2.0 social networking / bookmarking / etc sites.  I have not played around with them much but I have tried to follow them since I got listed awhile back for one ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/01/stumbling-upon-ebay/ Just a quick post in a new category - gripe.  Hopefully I won't have to use it too often.  I have mentioned before that I'm a biker - I have a Vulcan - and I occasionally take it to work.  I've noticed that what little respect people have for motorcycles ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/29/respect-for-bikers/ At work we recently instituted social bookmarking and networking at the bottom of our items. Apparently our users - while smart, resourceful, motivated and on a web 2.0 site regularly - were in many cases unaware of the phenomenon. While the values of Reddit and Digg are well ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/29/social-bookmarking-and-you/ I have been reading a lot about microformats recently to try and get a better understanding of them, their benefits and how they affect web standards. I've talked a little about them in the past but I wanted to delve more into detail. The basic idea of microformats is to ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/27/microformats/ I am surprised by how many sites still use tables for layout. This was a practice adopted during the "browser wars" because of the low acceptance of CSS - for complex designs the only method available was to use tables. This is no longer the case. Now with web standards ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/25/do-people-still-use-tables-for-layout/ Fixed vs. flexible design is one of the main arguments of the modern web design era. Much of the argument derives from the fact that IE (Internet Explorer) did not support the min- and max-width properties until version 7. As of this date version 6 and lower are still in ... http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/25/the-age-old-question-fixed-vs-fluid-vs-elastic/