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Oct

15

2009

11

comments

E-texteditor vs Notepad++

I’ve been using notepad++ as my text-editor of choice for several years now and have been relatively satisfied with it. It does everything I want, but I’ve also heard a lot of good things about e-texteditor which has “the power of textmate on windows”. I’m not a fan of Apple products but have heard so many good things about textmate that I thought I should give it a try.

Both notepad++ and etexteditor allow users to import user created bundles. This is great because I make web sites using ExpressionEngine (EE) and having EE tags color coded ... Read More

Dec

16

2008

2

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Thoughts on Support Email

Almost everyone receives email support from various web sites and companies. The problem with all of these different companies is that the name associated with the email is almost always Support. This includes various forums, message boards and blogs. When recieving emails from all of these different entitites it is usually difficult to determine which company/web site sent the email until opening it.

For the end user, that’s me, this is confusing and a potential waste of time. Different forums and support emails have different priorities for ... Read More

Nov

13

2008

0

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Review: Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong

I heard some buzz about Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong, by Rachel Andrew & Kevin Yank and decided to order the book through Sitepoint. I ordered the hard copy as I don’t like reading on screen. Upon recieving the book my initial reaction was; this book is small. The page size is small and there are only 111 pages many of those with screenshots.

it is now up to designers to move the web forward. The opening chapter breifly discusses the history of browsers, design for layout, the implementation of CSS and issues designers have had with ... Read More