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.

Microformats have been generating buzz on the web lately. The whole idea of microformats originated at the 2004 South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. A panel was presented by Tantek Çelik on extending XHTML by adding meta information to existing attributes to create the XHTML Friends Network, or XFN.
Since then, they have […]

Documentation is important in any line of work, but it is even more important in the world of web design. I recently finished reading Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan M. Brown. This book takes you through the proces of preparing and presenting all kinds of project documentation from […]

I just finished reading the second edition of Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. The book is short by design which makes it an easy read. In the words of the author, “you can read it on a flight.” Although there are 12 chapters, most of them are fairly short, with only two chapters taking […]

I have been on an organization kick lately. I have been trying to reduce distractions and streamline processes as much as possible. It’s sort of a resolution for me this year.
Part of that process was to completely clean out my RSS reader (all 350+ feeds) and start over, rebuilding my feed list one-by-one. My subscription […]

In the 6 months since it was first released out of beta, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has easily become one of the most popular open source projects in existence. It has also shaken up the browser industry, claiming roughly 8% of the market share and chipping away at Internet Explorer’s dominance.
Most people are content with installing […]