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RefreshIndy giving back to the community

The weekend of January 15-17, 2010 was a long one for a group of young professionals in Indianapolis. For 48 hours, there was little sleep, lots of excitement and heavy focus on just one thing: websites. While most of Indianapolis buzzed high and loud for the Colts, a group of Indianapolis-based web designers and developers spent two days building three websites for local charities. Under the umbrella of RefreshIndy, these individuals gave up their weekend to bring a new internet face to three non-for-profits.

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and maybe even a fence for it

Believe it or not, I am a homeowner. Yes, I make the typical amount any unpaid intern does, but due to a good budget and two trips to Iraq, I was financially stable enough to buy a house four years ago and saved enough money to keep it during...

Best practices for readability and accessibility of your web-fonts.

As a front-end web developer or designer, you may be confused about which unit to use when decalring font-sizes in your CSS. Here I will attempt to explain what each of the possible units means and why one is better than another.

Refreshing your mindset

On the first Wednesday of every month, at 7 pm, the Rock Bottom restaurant in downtown Indianapolis is the spot for some of the best web professional minds in Indy to eat and drink. For two hours, over twenty professionals, whose combined skills...

Considerations about creating an IE6 compatible website

 Many developers and web designers would like to dismiss Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). It requires a lot of time for compatibility issues, and it seems to dismiss many other browser's "best practices". With the introduction to Google Chrome,...

Breaking out of the comfort zone

When getting my oil changed a few days ago, my mechanic noticed a bump on my tire. Being that I just bought these tires a few months ago, I assumed that getting it replaced would be quick and easy. So when I walked into my local tire store on a...

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