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SelecTrucks Center Sites We launched two new Center Sites in November. Kansas City was a challenging design, with lots of absolute positioning, which caused a few problems when IE7 came out. The client was really excited about the puzzle theme. Birmingham is, I think, one of the best looking designs we've done. The diagonal navigation is really sweet. Updates to existing sites We helped out several clients with minor updates to their sites. In one case, we redesigned their homepage to emphasize... Read More...

SelecTrucks We launched four SelecTrucks sites this month, and all four feature landscape shots. Denver has a nice big mountain, and lots of wet-floor reflections on their photos. Cleveland has several landmarks in a photomontage, Twin Cities has a great landscape shot at sunset, while Seattle has a very nice cityscape, including the space needle. All four were fun to work on, and we're really getting our production process down pat. LifeWorks NW We managed to push LifeWorks' site into Beta... Read More...

This is my first post since switching my work blog from DasBlog to Community Server. I'm pretty impressed with the results. DasBlog wasn't a bad program, but coming from a background in WordPress, it was frustratingly limited and very rough around the edges. I've already detailed my frustrations with DasBlog , so I won't repeat myself here, except to say that the only solutions I've found to my problems are to either fix them myself (not practical, since I'm not a programmer... Read More...

Note: This blog moved to follow standard naming practices. The new URL is ScottV.staging.popart.com . Please update your bookmarks. Read More...

In the interest of being proactive rather than just complaining, I'm going to start a list of demands improvements I would like to see us work on for DasBlog. Offer an alternative to this horrible text-editor. Actually, it's not bad as WYSIWYG editors go, but the code it puts out is horrible. It uses two BR tags instead of a proper P tag, etc. Possible options: Give a plain-text input field, and allow users to use a friendly markup style, such as Markdown or Textile . Intelligently insert some markup... Read More...

As you can see, I'm working on skinning the blog here. Some things are easier than others, but on the whole, it's a frustratingly limiting experience, especially compared to the incredible flexibility of WordPress. But I will persist, and overcome. I will not have an ugly blog forever! Read More...