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I agree completely, stop with the excuses. I don’t think I tried that hard in school either. Definitely the quote of the article: “Never let your schooling interfere with your education”.

There are lots of WordPress plugins for contact forms, but wouldn’t it be nice to have more control over the markup? In this tutorial, I am going to show how to use a custom page template to create a contact form in WordPress without a plugin. Some people may want to skip the post and get to the demo and source files:View Demo Download Source FilesSo, why not use a plugin?Well, I think that a cont…

Khoi Vinh discusses the disastrous Tropicana redesign and wonders if the branding agency behind it, Arnell, did it just for the press. I certainly agree that it was a disaster, as I felt like I was trying to find my orange juice for 5 minutes.

Incremental success really helps in working toward your larger goals. I’ve been trying to improve something on my site every day. Recent examples: tooltips on my portfolio & better pagination on my blog.

Paul Boag says that “being a good designer is not always enough to survive hard economic times. You need to be efficient too.” With that, he gives us 10 tips for efficient design. I think #10 should be emphasized and then emphasized again; it’s so important!

In my most recent article at NETTUTS: 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS, I share some tips that have helped me to write better CSS. This is definitely not me trying to tell you to code in a certain way; they are just some tips that I have found to become very useful for myself. I hope you enjoy, and feel free to share other tips.

Ohh, please make the ability to do this happen. It would make CSS so much more lightweight and easier to write.

I use the fantastic Twitter for WordPress plugin on my website. Sometimes though, Twitter decides that it doesn’t want to make my tweets available. The plugin has accounted for this, and it displays No public Twitter messages when this happens. That kinda sucks though. It’s definitely nice that the plugin doesn’t throw an error, but I really don’t want that message displayed on my site. So what’s…

I do just like Roger Johansson says: I make sites perfectly usable in IE, but not necessarily exactly the same. As long as everything is accessible, it’s good enough for me.