User experience (UX)

User experience (UX) involves a person’s emotions about using a particular product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, effective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership. – wikipedia

What really is User Experience? To many time I come across a guys profile on LinkedIn and one of his/her skills listed is UX, and I’m like, “Is that a skill?”. Turns out, it is a skill. It isn’t so much a Web Development skill as it is more of a Web Designing skill. What is the difference? Lets just think of it as a process.

Work @ PwC

PwC (PricewatterhouseCoopers) is the largest professional services firm. I am excited to be joining their team!! What an amazing oppurtunity!! I started @ PwC on Sep. 9th 2013! Where i will Work as a Senior Associate, User Interface Developer

Redirect to Login Page WordPress

how to redirect to wp-login.php when users are not logged in to your site:

Dont waste time… Jing it!!!

Have you found yourself having to hit the print screen button on your computer and then crop your image on a image editor, and add notes…

Time consuming huh? Well there is this nifty little application called Jing. It helps you capture a specific area of your Computer Screen and copy image and past it in an email, save image for later use, or upload image to the web and copy url to the clipboard in order to share it to anyone online…

Chemistry Blog… LIVE!!!

This is it!!! My big one The project I have been working on for about 2 months at Match. I am so excited I have learned a lot and look forward to continuing to make the site better!!! So check it out: blog.chemistry.com!!!


It was built on the WordPress CMS. Although most of the UI Development was by me, I would like to give props to The Match Design Team; QA Team; Social Media Team, headed by Andy Chen; Rafik Bryant, for Help with the php development, and Thomas Gormley for leading the development vision! I feel this project is a huge success!!!

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.

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.

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

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:

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:

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

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):

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

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

New Contact Form

Hey guys I just added a new contact form!! It is set up and finished. If you have any suggestions, questions or want to learn more about my services please contact me…

Feedback is welcome!!

Hello world!

Welcome to my site. This is Jacob King. The website is still under construction now…so i ask you to check back frequently for new updates!!!

If you need to contact me, my linked in is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobuid/

Student Worker, Graphic Designer @ LSUS

I am thankful for the opportunity to Work at LSU – Shreveport in the University Center while Attending College here. I am a Computer System Technology major, and someday I will be a Front End Web Developer!! This Job specializes in Graphic Design. I use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create Fliers and Advertisements for the University Student Center. I started on Oct. 8th 2007 and planning to end Employment on Feb. 1st 2010 to take the next step in my CAREER!! I am so excited!