Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

Here is a little bit of proof that less markup is better for search engine optimization.
The other day at work we were trying to find a font we had downloaded at one time for a project. The name of the font was Marquee.
When I searched google for “font + marquee“, the first page of results […]

It was announced on the local news last night, and in the local newspaper this morning.
Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, located south of Birmingham in Pelham, at the foot of Double Oak Mountain and near the entrance of Oak Mountain State Park, would become known as the Verizon Wireless Music Center-Birmingham.
I have seen the Dave Matthews Band […]

We have really nice weather in Birmingham today. Mid 80’s and partly-cloudy. I was able to spend most of the morning doing yard work, which is a nice break from the usual routine of sitting in front of a computer.
My friend Seth, who also evangelises standards here in The Magic City, has started updating his […]

I am taking a long weekend to visit the ol’ alma mater for the spring version of homecoming, also known as Super Bulldog Weekend. Work has been really busy lately (which is, of course, always a good thing), so the vacation is welcome.
Basically, there are lots of festivities that center around the 3-game baseball series. […]

www.birminghamal.org
Kinetic Communications launched a redesign of the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau website today.
This new site employs the use of standards-compliant XHTML for structural, semantic markup and CSS to style the markup.
Converting from a site that relied heavily on nested tables, depricated <FONT> tags, and images, the load time for the site […]