Libby Molina
Front-End Web Developer
Libby has been actively working in the web development world since the Internet was mostly just a curiosity. She began doing dev work in 1997, after earning a BA in Anthropology, with a minor in American Literature, from UC Berkley a few years prior. Since joining Pop Art in 2008, she has built some of our largest projects including optimizing the Leatherman redesign for future translation and building the Detroit Diesel Demand it All and Truth About SCR sites. When not pushing pixels, Libby is an active gardener, mountain biker and textile artist.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. — George Bernard Shaw
Education
BA in Anthropology, Minor in American Literature from UC Berkley
Other Interests
- Gardening
- Knitting
- Writing
- Printmaking
- Biking
- Hiking
Current Magazine Subscriptions
- Bon Appetite
- New Yorker
- Fine Gardening
- Martha Stewart Living
- Wired
- Newsweek
Recommended Books
- Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
- jQuery in Action
- CSS: The Definitive Guide
- Perennials for Every Purpose
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Devil in the White City
- As I Lay Dying
Networks
Posts by Libby Molina
What’s Your User Story, Morning Glory?
What is a user story? Stemming from agile software development, user stories are used by the customer to concisely convey what they need in their site or software. In only a sentence or two in the language of the everyday user, a user story describes a solution requirement. While they can be a by product of [...]
Eliminating Development Traffic from Your Google Analytics Stats
Recently we were asked by a client if traffic from their test site was being posted to a Google Analytics (GA) account. It turns out it is. Not only that, so is any version of the site hosted on their development and test servers, and any developer’s local site. We tested this by placing several pages [...]
The SVN Revert Command That Saved My Bacon
I think it’s happened to all of us. We’ve all done something three weeks ago that we wish we hadn’t. Like that guy you dated, or that burrito you ate. But in this instance I’m talking websites, specifically websites under version control. How many hours have you lost trying to get rid [...]
Leatherman Refresh
A few months ago we completed the Leatherman redesign. There were several issues facing the old Leatherman site. The front-end code was showing its age. The original site had been built to accommodate 16 products and now featured close to 50. A redesign would need to allow more flexibility for innovation such as up-selling, cross [...]
Creative Instability, Frameworks, and Contextual Syntax… Yawning yet?
Going to conferences, if they are good, fills me with moments of euphoria. And at the recent AEA in San Francisco, I had that experience while listening to a talk by Liz Danzico. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of emergent properties. For all that you can say about Web 2.0, [...]
Sifr Me Tender
We use sifr a lot on headlines, and recently in a version of a site that will eventually accommodate 5 languages we’re utilizing it in large swaths over image replacement. Recently we ran into a problem with the placement of various registration and trade marks. In html you can superscript using the sup [...]
