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BKWLD is one of the featured studios in Taschen’s Web Design Studios 2. The best part is that one of the sites I worked on pretty extencively is one of the featured projects: thebeachboys.com

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Are you a seasoned, graphic designer, web developer, video editor, or multi-media guru? Are you excited about the new Adobe CS3 products? Do you already know which CS3 applications you want to upgrade to? Are you a little frustrated that not all of the applications you want come bundled in any of the CS3 Suite packages? Do you need help determining the most cost effective way to purchase the CS3 applications you know you need?

I am and I do. I thought others might be too, so I made the Adobe CS3 Configurator.

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After reading John Gruber’s thoughts about Tantek Çelik’s Three Hypothesis of Human Interface Design yesterday, I felt compelled to contribute to the subject. For those of you mildly interested, but scared of large words, I recommend reading the Daring Fireball post. You’ll get the general idea.
At first I considered sending an email to [...]

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A recent project had me describing the particulars of zip code searching—or more accurately—the accuracy of the results of zip code searching. The client wanted a location search feature in the side bar of their site where the visitor enters a zip code, and is presented with a list of the nearest locations to them, like the one in the sidebar of Walmart.com.

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Well, Wayne Hancock passed through San Francisco two days ago, unbeknownced to me. Again. I try to check the calendar as regularly as humanly possible for me to remember, but again something went up between that day and this morning with a date scheduled right in my back yard for last [...]

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I’ve been cranking out a serious number of content management systems lately. You know, those little back-end, password protected parts of your blog or website that allow you to change content on the front end? Different clients have different security needs, and I’ve certainly seen my share of inconsistent requests lately.
Encrypted, case sensitive, [...]

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I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1, and I totally dig it. I mostly dig the code name, “Ella”, but the biggest mind-blowingly welcome improvements are what they did to the WYSIWYG editor.

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I was just downloading the Macworld podcast of Cable Sasser and John Gruber from Macworld.com and spotted an ad for a website I spent the last few weeks building out. I’m sure Dan and Greg (project manager and designer respectively) will be equally as tickled to see the fruits of our labor being hocked above two of our favorite Mac bloggers/Developers.

Sorry if I embarrassed you in front of the ladies, guys.

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Fielding questions and pre-conceived notions of the ins and outs of “Web 2.0″ has nearly become the bane of my existence. May this post serve as my official, and professional explanation of what Web 2.0 is.

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Somewhere around 1998, Jutta Degener created the document, Dangerous Words. Nine yeas later, how often do you see many of these words and terms floating around with the exact usage cautioned against in this document? I’d have to say quite a lot.

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