Archive for December, 2008

Food for thought

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Become a Critical Thinker
No matter what your job, skills or position in life, critical thinking is a useful and arguably necessary trait that everyone should develop. However, much like common sense or kindness, few people believe they need more of it or need to practice having it. For those of you who enjoy moving forward [...]

Funny: wrong website blocked

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

We have the horrible Barracuda Filter in place on our network here at work. This isn’t the first time it has blocked one of our very own websites, but this is the first time I have remembered to take a screen capture to mark the event. Schaffs Angus Valley can’t be visited by anyone in [...]

New site designs created

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

For the past few weeks I have been designing some new looks to add to our style library. I managed to design, get approved and post several new ones. Some of my recent designs:

I still firmly believe I am a web developer, not a web designer, but my job responsibilities include creating designs. In an [...]

Contribute CS3 Line Break Bug Fix

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I’ve been working on a project for the Editorial department for a few weeks now. They wanted the ability to edit content and since Contribute came with our Creative Suite 3 packages, I tried it. Despite all of the testing I did beforehand, someone caught a bug I didn’t notice before: the keyboard shortcut for [...]