Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

Cascading woes with IntenseDebate

Let me start off by saying that IntenseDebate is pretty cool. Giving you the ability to easily add in commenting functionality to any given page, with no cost involved!
However, like every other widget, they are a serious pain in the neck to customize visually. Yah, installation is a breeze, but when it renders on the [...]

Promotion to Senior Interface Engineer at iStudio

I’m not really the guy to toot my own horn, but I’ll make an exception for today. Just found out today that I’ve been promoted to Senior Interface Engineer here at iStudio. It came as quite the surprise, and was getting just a bit nervous when my boss told me to come into her [...]

A closer look at CSS selector support in IE7, Part 2

In this second article I will break down the remainder of the CSS selector tests that I first discussed in part one of this mini series.
As I alluded to earlier, it is not all doom and gloom with respect to the support that IE7 has with CSS selectors. In fact, as we’ve seen in the [...]

Today’s economy blog

A recent template slicing project I was involved in for Sun Life Financial has recently been launched – Today’s economy blog.
This was a simple template slice that used the exisiting SLF site wrapper. I worked extensively with the ECS team to help integrate the templates into their CMS, and although we hit a few bumps [...]

Getting ready for IE8

With Internet Explorer 8 now coming out of beta and being released to the public via an Automatic Update in Windows XP, we all need to ensure that our Web sites perform properly when viewed in this browser.
Up to this point, I’ve pretty much ignored it – and rarely have I tested any of my [...]

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