Death of a Cut-Up Man

The modern day cut-up man/woman/shop is dead when it comes to a dynamic system. It’s sad because no obituary was written nor news alert on AP/CNN posted, but it’s true. The theory, that a company or individual needs to ‘cut-up’ the design composition into a semi-working website before full development of the backend system is highly unnecessary and inefficient. In a time where budgets are even tighter than they have been in years past and a need for continual push around efficiency in development, eliminating the process of cut-ups before development needs to die quickly.

B://B: What the Sprite was That?

Primer:

I thought that I would start a series of fairly straight forward posts that refer to the basics that are so often overlooked in web development and more specifically the realm of front end development. Utilizing sprites should be one of those techniques that it’s a no brainer and have no second thoughts/reasons on why not to use them. In case you did forget, the sprite is in reference to early video game developers who used a large image to contain multiple states of an entity while preserving precious space on the game media at the time.

Drupal Training Mania Starts Next Week

So we are one week away from Drupal Training Mania in DC! And in case you haven't heard -- to supplement the sold out CapitalCamp we have three days of pre-training available for beginner to intermediate level courses and one day of advanced training following CapitalCamp.