All Things Cahill

  I’ve started blogging on my new company site – http://cahilldigital.com so you will definitely want to add that to your reading list.  My last post was about Responsive Design, Retina Displays and their importance in new site development.  The title is “Welcome to Retina-stan.” Meanwhile in the present day, designers have to deal with a web that requires a “responsive” design – on that by using media queries will present the appropriate css 3 styles to a browser, be…

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I’ve had the opportunity over the years to work with some real first class web designers. People like Mark Hentschel, Jill Cole and Bill Hall, just to name a few.  Unfortunately, there have also been a bunch on the other side who’ve billed themselves as web designers and weren’t…so here’s a list off the warning signs that you’re dealing with a web designer who isn’t a web designer. The design arrives as a flat jpg image that looks like it’s…

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I found this  brilliant graphic over at oatmeal (hat tip to Matt Brodeur for pointing the site out) and it hits on a subject that’s been on my mind the past couple days: shopping carts that suck. The oatmeal crews has definitely hit the nail on the head, so much so that I forwarded the thing over to the other Senior Engineer I work with as well as our Front End Design Lead, intending it as a subject for Monday…

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One of the first tasks I’ve tackled this week was updating both the software and the theme on Discussnames.com.  A fairly simple project, but one with big rewards for the Afternic.com crew, I think. The project was fairly simple.  Take one vBulletin site that had a completely separate look and integrate it into the look and feel of the Afternic.com site.  No small task, but luckily one I had some level of experience with, having worked on the http://domainersadvantage.afternic.com WordPress…

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