Running IE6, 7 & 8 on Your Mac
As a web designer it’s extremely important to be able to test projects in multiple browsers. We want to try and ensure that people get the same experience whether they’re looking at a project in Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc. Now any web designer should be able to tell you that Internet Explorer is the biggest issue with our jobs. To be honest, if we didn’t have Internet Explorer things would be so much easier, in particular Internet Explorer 6. According to Wikipedia, IE6 was release in August of 2001. That’s more than 8 years ago! When you think about that in computer years, it’s a lifetime! So why are so many people still running IE6? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you for certain that when it comes to web development that tons and tons of money is wasted on making sites work in IE6!
WordPress Parent Navigation
For those beginner developers out there working in WordPress, here’s a little trick that you may have not run into yet. If you need to build out a website in WordPress that will load the navigation dynamically, meaning that any pages that are added in the backend of WordPress are automatically placed in the navigation on the front end of the website, there is a nice piece of code that will do that for you. You have the option to edit that code to render out the displayed navigation in almost any way that you’d like, which is a great plus when it comes to having control over a website.
The Button Spoof
I saw a clip of this video watching a show on Comedy Central and I thought that it was hilarious. If you haven’t seen the trailer for The Box yet, then the video posted below will not make any sense. We’ll give you a quick summary from what we get from the movie trailer. The Box presents a moral dilemma for whoever it encounters. If pushed one million dollars will be granted to the person who presses the button. However, at the same time, someone somewhere in the world will die. Here is a link to watch the trailer first if you haven’t seen it yet.
Useful Key Commands
When working on a computer it becomes imperative to learn keyboard shortcuts, or key commands to keep things moving, and moving quickly! Being that I’m on the computer what feels like 24/7 I’ve picked up a few that I use constantly! Below is just a short list of some of the basic Mac key commands that we use constantly when either setting up folders for client files, sorting through tons of running applications, or browsing the web. These are just a handful of useful keyboard shortcuts that we put together.
What the Font?
For those designers out there who haven’t heard of WhatTheFont I’m here to help you out! Have you ever received a project from a client who has given you a JPG of their logo and you really need an EPS? So you go through the whole thing and request the logo in vector format rather than raster. They come back to you with the unfortunate information that they don’t have the correct file, can’t find it, or have no idea what you’re talking about. It isn’t unusual for a client to know that they should have a vector version of their logo. That’s what designers are for! Anyway, we got a recent job where we had this problem. The logo contained a simple illustration with the store name. The font that was used looked so familiar but we couldn’t put our finger on the exact font that it was. So rather then running through our font collection (which would take quite some time as the collection is huge!), we consulted WhatTheFont! WhatTheFont’s service is free by the way.
