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Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces

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Since we launched our new company site back in November, we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from visitors and well-wishers about the novel approach to our portfolio. And while we expected to hear from other designers and developers, I was somewhat surprised to learn the impact it has on potential clients: often, via email or in person, I hear that seeing the stages of our creative process presented as a zippy polaroid left a lasting impression in their mind. And when a prospective client Read More >>

PHP Developer With MVC Experience Wanted

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Are you a web standards evangelist? Do you despise table-based layouts as much as we do? Can you wrestle CSS into submission and coerce PHP to do your bidding? Do you get that special tingly feeling when you roll out a shiny new site with a fancy CMS on the back end? If so, please keep reading. OnWired, a full-service web design/development firm (and all-around cool place to work), is on the hunt for web developers. We’re looking for someone with a creative mind, a keen understanding of user Read More >>

Refresh the Triangle

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Come One, Come All Here’s a heads-up that me and the gang will be in full-force tomorrow night for this month’s Refresh the Triangle: “Dr jQuery (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM)” I expect to start with a (really) short introduction to jQuery, then move on to a bunch of hands-on examples using it to manipulate DOM elements on a web page. No programming experience required! You can run jQuery commands from the command line in Firefox using the Firebug extension, Read More >>

The Importance of a Cover Letter

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So in our quest to find “The Best Web Designer in Town” we’ve come across many a cover letter, some awesome, others…not so awesome. Below are some snippets of my favorites. If you’re one of them, don’t worry, the names are hidden to protect the innocent and the guilty. Now my purpose for this post is to enlighten possible employee prospects, for us or elsewhere, as to what a great cover letter consists of (in my mind). We did mention that we wanted folks to send us the “world’s Read More >>

Web Designer Wanted

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We’re Looking for the Best Web Designer in Town Are you passionate about pushing pixels? Are you a typographic genius? Do you always design on a grid? Can you produce gallery-worthy designs in a variety of styles? If so, please keep reading. OnWired, a full-service web design/development firm and all-around cool place to work, is on the hunt for a web designer. We’re looking for someone with a creative mind, a keen understanding of user experience, exceptional communication skills, attention Read More >>

Why ExpressionEngine?

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This is the first of two articles explaining why we’ve standardized on EllisLab technologies. Since standardizing on ExpressionEngine last year we’ve fielded questions from both clients and developers wanting to know, “why ExpressionEngine?” Well, I’m going to lay it all out there for you, so strap yourself in. EspressoWhosit? ExpressionEngine (EE) is the flagship product of EllisLab, the cool cats also responsible for the CodeIgniter PHP framework (CI) and EngineHosting. It’s Read More >>

Top 10 Leopard Tips, Tricks & Fixes

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If you’re like me, you’re very particular about your desktop: whether that means swapping icons, toggling options or disabling features, if you spend all day in front of your computer (sigh…) you want to be happy and feel settled in. And while it can take some time to get it just right (some OS’s take longer than others), in the end you’ll be glad you did. So without further ado I present my top 10 Leopard tips: 10. Opacity is the New Transparency Mercifully, Apple listened to its users Read More >>

Web Development Workflow That Works

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Small design firms like ours have a lot to juggle: we manage clients, sales, proposals, phone calls, billing, marketing, writing, and — when we have a free moment — the actual pixel-pushing that gets us paid! And when it comes to one’s development workflow, it pays to standardize on a handful of devices and technologies rather than try to be all things to all people. For example, in our office we’re an all-Apple shop, which means that we seldom have any hardware or uthftware compatibility Read More >>

Better Drop Shadows

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We’ve gotten more than one question from curious creative types out there on the Web about how we achieved certain effects on our website. Lots of people want to know about the shadows, and I know why: far too many designers just use the craptastic default drop shadow settings in Photoshop. Why do you stick with something that looks so artificial when it’s not very hard to do something a little more photorealistic? In an effort to make the Web a better place, I’m going to share my top secret Read More >>

Blogging Tip to Live By

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There are millions of blogs in the world and if you have one, you are simply adding to the growing pile of the public’s online writing.  But with so many different blogs out there, how are you ever going to promote yours to the point where you will have regular readers? This tip is probably the easiest one of all, and it will have you saying “Tony, you idiot, I already knew that.”  That’s fine (although I would prefer to keep the name calling to a minimum), but remembering this tip will Read More >>