http://gregdoolittle.com/blog exploration of graphic design, web design, and web development Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:51:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i want to preface this with my belief that the SEO profession is a necessary evil. writing code is easy, and people who do your SEO should be capable of writing good code — and with a little SEO training, the opposite is true: web designers and developers should ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2008/08/14/attack-of-the-web-spiders-aka-pre-conference-knowledge-of-seo-tips-and-tricks/ i left techweb in december to pursue what looked like a promising opportunity. and to sum it all up, it sucked. while i worked at this unnamed company, i was too busy with school to really look for another job, but after about 2.5 months, a former employer ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2008/08/13/i-left-techweb-in-december/ i rode up old la honda for the first time on saturday. wasn't sure if i was going to make it, but pushed through, and am glad i got to the top. it was especially tough because i haven't been spinning lately, but spending my time at the ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2008/04/21/old-la-honda-figure-8-loop/ today i rode from my front door, up king’s mountain road to skyline ridge, where i could have seen the ocean were it a clear day. it rained off and on, and at one point it was so cold that i couldn’t feel my fingers. eventually the sun came out ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2008/04/06/64/ On Friday, I had my last day over at TechWeb. It was great working there, but the time had come to move on and seek out new challenges, and get out of my comfort zone (which sadly, I had settled into quite nicely with TechWeb). My last few ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/12/02/sole-proprietorships-in-california/ A friend of mine is going to Japan and was asking me if I knew of a quick study guide, to develop his tourist language skills. Two things popped into my head: Rosetta Stone (they have a free trial for every language), and MIT's OpenCourseWare (though I had yet ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/11/18/mit-opencourseware/ (my latest flash projects) i figured out a cool way to use spirals to create these great kaleidoscope images. enjoy! http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/10/28/flash-kaleidoscopes/ trying to figure out the optimal frames-per-second (fps), these files are all the same exact filesize. the 6fps animation goes runs on 12 frames, he 12fps runs on 24 frames, etc... the ball should be traveling at the same speed in all the animations. 12 fps is flash's default. 24 ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/10/16/flash-fps-stats/ the disclaimer: 1. it's my first one... and there's no button to reset it, so if you missed it you'll have to reload the page. 2. it's just the animation, it doesn't do anything after it loads. bear with me, it's only the third week. 3. i controlled the ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/10/16/corporate-flash/ i just launched software2008.com at work today. i designed this project completely by myself, and i've got to say, i had a lot of fun doing it. it took me about 3 days to design the site, turn it into code, do browser/QA testing, and address all the ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/10/04/software2008com/ I just found a really cool Opera Mobile Simulator... It should be quite handy for mobile web development, since I don't have a handheld device to test on. There are over 40 different mobile web browsers, luckily Opera uses the most common rendering engine. The iPhone is more ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/10/02/opera-mobile/ YDN/YUI is the one really strong thing yahoo has going for it right now. i just discovered their video section where they share internal presentations about javascript with the general public: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/09/19/ydn/ i hate to be a walking advertisement for another company, an infectious host for a viral marketing campaign, but i've got to say google 411 is really amazing. i saw a billboard for the service on my way home, and had to try it out. i give it ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/09/18/google-411/ I missed the BarCamp conference in Palo Alto last weekend. I wish I'd gone, but I'll just have to find videos from the conferences and watch them during my commute. what's new at TechWeb, you ask? Our MediaLive group (the group I work with) recently took control of the ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/08/25/software2008-bmightycom/ i just installed apache with php and mysql (xampp) on my macbook pro. when i start up the server, everything runs a bit sluggishly, but it's worth having so that i can work on php/mysql stuff on the train. if things are too sluggish, i can always just ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/08/08/xampp-on-my-laptop/ i just wrapped up a small freelance project for www.carbonharmony.com. some very basic javascript which helps you calculate your CO2 emissions on a yearly basis. you can see what i did here, and hopefully soon, you will see it on www.carbonharmony.com. http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/08/07/carbonharmonycom/ I've been meaning to do a re-design for an unpaid project for quite some time. This weekend I finally managed to dedicate a few hours to it, and this is what i have so far (keep in mind, I haven't tested in IE at all yet, so if it's ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/07/08/48/ As a result of a legal battle with a patent holder, all embedded objects in IE require you to click the object before you can activate its controls. When we started using a flash slideshow on one of our homepages, we were in a scramble to get all the copy-edits and ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/06/26/ie-flash-problemo/ i realized that some of the sites i designed when i was first putting sites together all shared a common glitch. the problem was that pages with only a little amount of content didn't get scrollbars, whereas pages with more than a screen's capacity of content required scrollbars. ... http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/06/09/forced-scrollbars/ i usually don't post stuff from youtube, but this guy is too neat to not pass on to anyone reading this: http://gregdoolittle.com/blog/2007/06/04/44/