Pete SchiebelFebruary 7th, 2012
“Your site is out of date!” Let’s be honest, you hope I’m not talking to you. You’re thinking to yourself “Nah, we’ve been constantly tweaking it since it launched 2 years ago.” Even if that is true or it only launched a year and a half ago, is that still fresh enough? Start thinking of [...]
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Pete SchiebelJanuary 19th, 2012
A lot of the pain fun of my job is providing consistent user experiences between the major browsers. The major browsers can be different for each client so we take user analytics and client preference as our guiding beacon. For this article we are not taking into account mobile browsing so the Big Three are [...]
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Pete SchiebelJanuary 9th, 2012
In case you missed the first part of this unexpected series, check out Customize your WordPress Login page from a few months ago. Those instructions are still valid, the only thing we are doing different is adjusting the stylesheet. The release of WordPress 3.3, like all WordPress updates, brought a lot of good new features. [...]
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Pete SchiebelNovember 9th, 2010
I’ve been using CSS and non-table based layouts for about 5 years now and until recently one thing I had never had a consistent solution for was centering objects vertically. Either it didn’t come up often in designs, we purposely went around it or, if forced to, used some hacky solution. I finally decided it [...]
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Pete SchiebelSeptember 9th, 2010
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the tools I use to turn a new project’s design into a shiny, new website. The goal in every case is to have the final product (website) mirror the original design… for every user. ← That’s the tricky part. I like to think of my role as the [...]
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Pete SchiebelJuly 6th, 2010
For all of the advancements in web design and development, one problem has remained: the inability to easily incorporate real fonts into websites. It’s frustrating for designers because they want to make a visually inspiring site and don’t want to be shackled by the ‘web-friendly’ fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier, Comic [...]
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Pete SchiebelApril 14th, 2009
Internet Explorer 6 is almost 8 years old. Try to think of another program, browser, piece of equipment or anything else used in our tech-world that is 8 years old and still viable. How is that LaserDisc system of yours working? Is it still with the times? Every product reaches that point where it simply [...]
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Pete SchiebelNovember 20th, 2008
Nick’s recent trip to Japan gave him the opportunity to shower our office with the latest high tech gadgets he could find. About the AuthorPete Schiebel is the lead front-end developer for the Platforms team, described by some here as the “front end MacGyver” for how he works to make sure client projects look and [...]
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Pete SchiebelMay 3rd, 2007
Always in search of a nice icon set here’s a nice 10x10px grayscale icon set. No anti-aliased edges here so transparency is e-a-s-y. Courtesy of Brand Spanking New About the AuthorPete Schiebel is the lead front-end developer for the Platforms team, described by some here as the “front end MacGyver” for how he works to [...]
