In All Reality

I spend a lot of time reading through things on the interwebs. I’ve decided to compile the things I’ve found useful into weekly lists for the benefit of all (or possibly just my memory). For the acronym-savvy, I’m going to call these LUTs.

We bought a house… 6 months ago. With time comes clarity, and with clarity comes the need to document the experience. Read on about our decisions, reasoning, a synopsis of the experience, and what we learned.

I love World of Warcraft… except for when I suck at it. Follow my journey down the road of discovery as to why I was failing to pump out that oh-so-important damage potential. I cover some of the basic stats important to dealing damage and explain what was causing my little “glitch”.

We’ve all had bad work relationships with clients, but did you ever stop and think that it’s all your fault? Of course not, that would be silly… wouldn’t it? Read some of my musings from past experience and reflect on your own situations.

Organizational skills are very important in all businesses, but maybe none more so than when working in a creative or development environment. We lay out some good tips and rules of thumb to remember when organizing your resources, and reminisce of various situations where poor organization led to chaos or time was saved by good practices.

FeedBurner might not be the new kid on the block anymore, but it’s definitely still awesome. In this article, we cover what’s so great about FeedBurner (both the service and the site), share a few nifty screenshots, and even show how to integrate your hot new FeedBurner feed into WordPress. Win!

Ever heard of a reset stylesheet? No?

In this article, we explore what a reset stylsheet is, why it’s useful, and why you should be using one. There’s a little history involved, some romance, some action, and intrigue! Well, not really…except for the history. We’ll even do a rundown of a customized reset stylesheet gleaned from CSS master Eric Meyer.

In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget: We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine,…

Maintaining your own site can be a real chore.  That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy. But what about non-content updates?  I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually.  A lot of people seem…