AC Vent

I have reawakened my Flickr account and will be using it to showcase any future photo shoots or photography experiments. Also check out my photography portfolio on the main AC site for info on specific photo shoots.

To tweet, or not to tweet – that is the question. And the answer is yes.

I’ve had a personal account on Twitter for ahwile, and have found it useful for following people who post interesting articles or blog posts related to their specialty, and I’ve decided to take advantage of that in the design field. Starting this week I have an account on Twitter for all of my professional and design related updates. If you should care to follow me, I can be found at http://www.twitter.com/acobbdesign

Earth Day was last week, and since then I’ve been thinking of all the things I can do or have already done to make my business more environmentally-friendly (and by extension, my home, since my office is part of that).

1. I’ve switched to a carbon-neutral host for all of my websites, and will be recommending it to any future web clients. Not just because they’re an eco-friendly company, but because they have an amazing deal on hosting, have easy to use control panels, and are reliable.
   
2. I use online fax (MyFax) and file sending services (YouSendIt) instead of wasting paper, disks, envelopes/tape, and transportation costs on communicating and sending files with my clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Any one who knows a web programmer even remotely well will probably have heard a rant about the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser at some point. If you are a programmer yourself, you’ve likely been the voice of numerous such rants yourself. I certainly have. You build a beautiful site, it looks perfect in every major browser – even IE7, which has it’s own ’special’ quirks. But IE6, for some unfathomable reason, refuses to recognize one little style or div tag, and suddenly it looks like your site got hit by a virtual grenade and is splattered in a haphazard fashion all over the screen. It’s a mess and fixing it, more often that not, results in the site looking bad in every other browser. So you have to do these complex, inefficient hacks on your own code just to get it looking good everywhere. This of course takes a considerable amount of time, as you can’t always tell right off which small tag is the one causing the problem, let alone hash out the work-around. Read the rest of this entry »

A picture of my new office space in the new place. This is where the magic happens. Or the drudgery, depending on the day/project.
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