Yes! I have found a Zen sub-theme for Drupal based on the 960 grid system. I have not checked it out quite yet, but I am going to give it a whirl soon.

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Saw this cartoon on http://www.cssquirrel.com/. I guess the monster is Microsoft… well actually I don’t guess I am sure it is.

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Here at Sharpdot we sometimes work with another web shop in New York called Blenderbox. One of the designers at Blenderbox named Jacks passed on this article about how Lucida Grande has steadily been becoming a standard font for the web-scape. I noticed over about a year ago, that it was being used on Apple’s [...]

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One design/css trend that is popular among many blogs, is “fancy Quotes” or should I say giant talk bubble comment-like creatures. You know the kind every blog and it’s mother have in the comment area. We have implemented this design style on our new site re-design under the “Testimonial” section, of course in a sleek Sharpdot fashion, with a drop shadow, small file size and even smaller mark up.

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So I was on iStock photo today and came accross this page after thier site was unresponsive. They have my vote for the funniest 503 error page to date. The funniest 404 page I have seen is a little to shocking to share with you on this blog, but I am sure there is another one wait for us out there.

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Recently, I designed a website and I decided to do a unique style on the search field. I added a background image to the input field and then a background image to the submit button. Everything looked great until I viewed it in Internet Destroyer (Internet Explorer). That’s when the sky fell on my head…as usual.

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Well last Friday I was coding out a site (a css file to be exact), and as usual, I save and save often. Well, I saved my file and Dreamweaver crashed on me (Yes I have been using D.W., I liked the code completion). After D.W. crashed it wouldn’t open at all!?? The program would start to initialize then crash, strange? Well what were my options? Re-install, wipe everything? Switch?

I came back to work the following Monday and told my fellow Sharpdoters what happened. Then demonstrated this odd occurrence. Well first off I decided to download Eclipse and just use that, finally ditching silly Dreamweaver, but the powers that be insisted I get the bottom of this. Well after Googling “dreamweaver won’t start” I came upon a quite disturbing discovery.

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I found a neat JavaScript tutorial about how to use type-casting and arrays instead of conditional statements.
In a nutshell it takes a basic conditional statement and does it in another way.
Same old boring conditional statement:
function doSomethingGreat(myVar) {
switch(myVar) {
case ‘AmberTaylor’:
[...]

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Hey folks I have a new blog at my work.. we are working on getting live this is a test cross post to live journal from my work blog.

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