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Sunday cartoons – through the eyes of a web designer

Everyone should be able to have a good laugh at themselves. As web designers and Internet geeks we should not be spared… here is a little collection of Computer Geek humor

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Top Five Tips for Clients: How to Get the Most Out of Your Web Designer

We all know the expression “the customer is always right” and we will be the first to admit this is true. But why not try and help our web design clients become the “dream client”. This is a post full of suggestions for the future clients out there. So if you are looking around Vancouver for someone to design your site, or redesign your outdated website, I hope this helps…

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Introduction to Web Design and Development Part 2: HTML Basics

Hot damn! I want to be a web designer / web developer !
If you have read my previous post and express the above sentiment, you are in the right place. If you were looking for fish taco recipes please go here: FISH TACOS.
So now that you are sure that you want to be a web [...]

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Graphic Design Typography Showcase: FLORAL TIME!

A collection of inspirational Typography. As a web design student in Vancouver I am always looking for creative and inspiring designs. It seems like the graphic and web design world is definitely in love with organic swirls, lively colors, and that magical garden feel…

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Drawing it up…. Robot Salmons logo explored

Once again No Code and Duder bring you an entertaining window from behind the scenes at Robot Salmon head quarters. Web designers by day, and aspiring You Tube video makers in their spare time… because we have so much of it

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Student Experience part 2 & 3 & 4

As web design students we love it when we have the chance to actually sink our teeth into a project, and “design” a website to our hearts content. The Interactive Design program at Capilano University shares it’s home in the Arbutus building on campus with another well know design program, the 3 year IDEA program. We have always been curious about what goes on with all those design students plunked in-front of their iMacs all day and night in the IDEA studio. So we took the opportunity to meet a few of our neighbors and we even recorded it for you to watch.

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Cars of the Future

As self proclaimed techies and gadget nerds we definitely dream of the future often and can’t wait for the latest and greatest life altering technologies to emerge (anyone want to talk about the long anticipated wait for the Apple “tablet”)
Speaking of the future, have we arrived yet? Is the future now?
When dreaming of the future [...]

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IE6 vs Google: let the browser wars begin.

That’s right, you read the title correctly!!!
Google says they will cease to support Internet Explorer 6 for all of their online applications starting March 1st.
Web Professionals are collectively shedding a single tear of joy.  IE 6 is generally excepted as the worst browser in current use.  It is the only browser to ever to have [...]

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Top Five Twitter Applications for iPhone

We here in the Interactive Design Program at Capilano U like to stay in the forefront of all things new and trendy. Hence our fervent worship of Twitter.
Twitter is a great web application that allows us to keep up with our friends and followers as well as all recent trending topics. I like to keep [...]

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Firebug On All Browsers? Who Knew?

I am a Mac user and Safari is significantly faster on my machine. PC Adviser claims that Safari is 38 percent faster than Firefox. Safari also renders websites at a much higher resolution. So, understandably, I was thrilled when I found out I could have my cake and eat it too. Firebug Lite allows users to use the Firebug plugin with any available browser.

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