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Imagine standing at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Looking up at this enormous structure, it might seem impossible that human beings could do this all by hand. How did they do it? One block at a time.
One very BIG block at a time.
A lot of the time when we […]
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Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire artists, scientists and others. Here are six things we can learn from him about web design.
1. Be curious
One of the most remarkable things about Leonardo is his insatiable curiosity. Besides being a master painter, here […]
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Being the holidays, you might think that I’d take some time off. And you’d be right about that. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been productive.
In fact, I find that holidays are often a great time to get a few of those nagging things done. So for the past couple of […]
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While catching up on my RSS feeds, I ran across a challenge from Shane of Shane & Peter. The challenge is pretty simple: interview yourself with some questions from Shane, and add an original question of your own.
Shane, I accept your challenge.
What’s your personal mission statement?
To bring more beauty into the world, especially […]
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“Beauty is the splendor of truth.”
This was a saying of the medieval scholastic philosophers. The basic idea is that Beauty (capital B) always has its source in Truth. They weren’t stupid about the way that beauty and falsehood is often mixed on earth, but they thought that ultimately, if you trace it back far enough, […]
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Finding domain names is getting harder by the day and is amongst the most frustrating things a person can do. You come up with a brilliant name that is going to be fabulous for marketing and branding, you start to get attached to it, then you search and find that either an obscure company or […]
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Over the years, I’ve used several different editors to build websites, ranging from MS-DOS’s Edit, to Netscape Composer, to (horror of horrors!) MS FrontPage. But most of that was before I was doing anything serious with the web. For true seriosity, I’ve used Dreamweaver almost exclusively.
But recently I’ve begun using E - TextEditor for more […]
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