Selling Burritos with Politics

Today's ad agencies and marketing firms are forever coming up with new ways to pitch old products. This one is interesting: Qdoba has created a site where you can answer 5 questions and get your "Qdentity". The site will basically assign you a particular mexican food, that you can get at Qdoba, of course. Then you say which presidential candidate you prefer. The site tells you how you compare to others in the nation and in your state. Check it out: http://ping.fm/k2EvL

I like the idea behind it and the design is smooth and well implemented.

Stop Rushing to the Gas Pumps!

Turns out that Ike isn't the only thing to blame for the sudden jump in gas prices. The other culprit is ourselves! I remember getting a frantic call from my fiance last week saying "Go fill up! Gas prices are spiking and they're only going higher, you need to go get gas!!"

Of course, I didn't need to get any gas because I have no driving planned. I work at home and even if I really needed something I could probably walk to whatever I needed anyway. So I still haven't filled up.

Meanwhile, everyone else has rushed to the pumps in a panic, making a slightly limited supply even more limited. And we know what that means - the prices go even higher.

Everyone stay rational and only use what you absolutely need.

For more info:
http://ping.fm/irwW1

Javascript Today

With the advancement of many Javascript frameworks, you can now easily add many new effects to websites with less work. You don't even have to know much javascript and in some cases, you don't need to know any javascript (just know how to cut and paste some code and files into the right places).

Webdesignerswall.com has a great article about the different frameworks and the power of each one: http://ping.fm/aoqiy

Update and Blog to Many Sites From One

I've only recently started using twitter.com. Today I discovered Ping.fm. If you use the status update on Facebook, MySpace or any other social networking website then Ping.fm is for you. It also makes blogging to multiple sites easier.

On Ping.fm you can go to one place and add quick status updates or full blog entries from one place. You can also use it though your IM software.

Give it a shot!

(This blog post was posted through Ping.fm.)

Say goodbye to IE6!

As of August 27, Internet Explorer 6 will be seven years old! In terms of any software, we know that is not just old, that is long enough to be dead and reborn many times over.  Internet Explorer 7 has much better for support for CSS and also supports PNG transparency, so its far superior than IE6. IE 8 is in beta release.

So its finally time for us all to say goodbye to IE6. If you're using IE6 - please stop. If you're a designer or developer still supporting IE6 - please stop.

As a web designer, I will officially stop supporting IE6 by March 2009.

Join the movement at IE Death March.