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Aug
Brining Beer to Life
A recent trip into the world of contest design had me taking a break from “paying” work and using my talents for a prize of much different value. Contests that involve design are not usually enticing enough to draw my interest, but this particular contest meshed two of my passions into one: beer and design.
For the second year, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company held a contest where participants were asked to make a two minute video explaining why they should be chosen to attend Beer Camp.
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Many may question the validity of a debate about browsers, stating that the masses have no need for an updated and feature-rich browsing experience. I beg to differ. If we’re not moving forward, we’re actually moving backwards. Consumers spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for the newest in technology that makes their TV resolution look better, to enable 3-D characteristics, to make it possible to carry their whole music and/or movie library in their pocket. Consumers may not be computer savvy, but they are certainly not stupid. If they knew something was out there that was “bigger and better’ than their 5-year-old browser and was FREE, i’d have to wager they would want to use it. Especially if they saw an 
Being that this site is built using WordPress, there are always little tweaks, hacks and plugins I am searching for to massage the framework to do what I want it to do. I found a pretty simple little hack that I figured would be useful to just about anyone who uses WordPress and thought I would share. The object of this change is to make one of your top level navigation items link to an external site, outside of your WordPress site.
A great debate has been brewing for some time in the world of web browsers. Once an individual enters the world of web design, it doesn’t take long before they notice the not-so-subtle differences in the way Internet Explorer (choose your favorite version) renders CSS attributes as opposed to the “other guys” i.e. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc. Being that IE is still one of the most used browsers in the world, there’s no getting around the fact that designs must cater to the differences and inconsistencies presented by the Microsoft offering.
Six years…. well, three years of pretty solid work and three years of spotty-at-best dedication, but almost six years nonetheless. When I first started the Rookie Designer podcast I didn’t know what to expect. Podcasting was a venture into a new-ish technology and I was just excited to see what the buzz was all about. Six years later I’m left with a ton of great experiences, a person to share my life with, several testimonials to the effectiveness of my teaching and motivational skills and a couple of perfect candidates to keep the whole thing going.
