Saturday, April 23, 2011

Kortni Littlefield

Ok, So there is this girl, alright, well she is my girlfriend…um yep I’m proud to be with her, her name is Kortni Littlefield and she is the most amazing person, she wants to be a teacher you see, she loves children… Right now she is working at Primrose School of FireWeel, she teaches little toddlers. I think she will become an amazing teacher, she has such a sweet personality!

She plans to Attend Collin Community College(CCC) Where she will begin her journey towards her goals to becoming a teacher. I support her 100% in everything she wants to accomplish. She is a very talented lady. I look forward to sharing and experiencing her accomplish her dreams in life, she will always know that I am here for her holding her up so she doesn’t fall.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Full-time Work @ Match.com

I have just accepted a full-time position at the match.com dating website. This is definitely a pinnacle point in my life!!! I am about
the enter a very competitive environment. But as the slogan says, LOVE. YOUR WORK.

My job at match starts April 18th! Where I will be a User Interface Developer.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Everybody Loves PIE

SO here is the issue, CSS3 is around the corner, with it comes some incredibly powerful styling features. Rounded corners, soft drop shadows, gradient fills, etc. But as we all know, due toInternet Explorer‘s lack of support for any of these features, we must be patient and refrain from using CSS3…

Or do we?

PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties. Pretty cool huh?


Read more about the details on css3pie.com

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

TABLES are better than DIVS??? Email Template Design…

Relax, I have not fallen of the face of the earth, I am talking about emails… It is true that because of the numerous email clients lack of support for floats, positioning, margins, and paddings Email templates are safer to build in Tables instead of divs.

I know you are shocked beyond belief at the revelation I have just given you, but for all you super-smart dudes & dudettes, I’ll give you something a little extra.

the Image to the left highlights a website called Campaign Monitor. If you look under resources, you will find numerous tips on building email templates including:

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Responsive Web Design

CSS3 Media Queries are an extension to CSS Media Types. They are used to assign different CSS stylesheets to a web page depending on browser window size. A Media Query consists of a media type and one or more expressions to limit the scope of style sheets.

On CSS Tricks, A Web Design Community created by Chris Coyier, a web developer and designer who also co-authored Digging into WordPress. Chris covers a number of aspects of media queries including:

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Color Scheme Designer


Are you struggling with coming up with a color scheme for your new website? This is a little tool that I found on colorschemedesigner.com is a great way to boost your creativity when it comes to a color scheme for your website.

The Scheme Designer is currently in Version 3.5. Petr Stanicek, a professional UI/UX designer, analyst, web designer and online application programmer from the Czech Republic, EUROPE created the web application in 2009. If you have any question or suggestions, visit Petr’s Website www.pixy.cz

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Object Oriented CSS

Nicole Sullivan has come up with a new way to implement CSS. Object Oriented CSS is a process that allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to the way CSS is Handled. This Tutorial Video explains everything in detail. As Nicole Stated on GitHub, a social network for coding,

The two main principles of Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS):

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Chemistry.com Contract Job


Hey guys! I just landed a contract job at chemistry.com where I will be working full-time for the next six months. The experience I gain there will be invaluable for the future!!

During this employment, I will be residing in Dallas, TX and will not be accepting any other job offers untill the end of the contract in July 2011.

For future Job offers/contracts please contact me, my email is: jacobuid@gmail.com

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Marketicity Internship

I have participated in an Web design internship where I learned to work in a team environment and hone my HTML & CSS skills. The first step I took on my road to becoming a User Interface Developer. I am very excited about the opportunities this may open up for me in the future.

The internship began on June 7th 2010 and has lasted for 11 weeks. During this time I received experience working with clients, and producing results. Read More Info