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Building a foundation

and maybe even a fence for it

Peter Cook | Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 13:44

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...

CSS Font-Sizes

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

Ryan Ours | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 15:35

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.

Refresh Indy

Refreshing your mindset

Peter Cook | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:28

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...

Caution: IE6 Ahead

Considerations about creating an IE6 compatible website

Aaron Dudenhofer | Friday, February 5, 2010 - 13:04

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,...

Habits

Breaking out of the comfort zone

Peter Cook | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 10:31

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...

Saving the World... 3 websites at a time

RefreshIndy giving back to the community

Peter Cook | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:11

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...

Extreme web makeover Forty-eight hours. Three websites. One great cause.

Aaron Dudenhofer | Friday, January 15, 2010 - 13:33

INDIANAPOLIS – JANUARY 11, 2010 – The Indiana University School of Informatics at IUPUI and RefreshIndy, a local organization of web designers, developers and graphic artists, are bringing together the best professional and student talent in...

Advertising Beauty

Let's talk about...colon cleanser?

Peter Cook | Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 14:36

In case this is the first blog of mine you are reading, I am “green”, meaning I’m new to the detailed world of website development. Often, I am asked at Web Easy Media for my input on ideas for website designs since I look at them through non-...

Close the Curtains; the world is watching

The price of social media

Peter Cook | Monday, January 4, 2010 - 11:25

At the old age of 26, I can remember the time where stalking someone posed many challenges. You had to have reliable transportation, a camera, good binoculars and lots of free time. In the digital world of today, people willingly post more info...

Web Developers

Are you in good hands?

Peter Cook | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 14:16

Last night, I went to the Zack Brown Band concert. The Zack Brown Band plays country music, so as expected, there were plaid shirts and cowboy hats as far as the eye could see. After a good concert, the band came out for an encore and, just...