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Launch of Sun Life Financial “ParticipACTION” micro site

Mike Badgley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:02 +0000

Last week we prepared a series of three HTML templates for a small micro site that Sun Life Financial is doing for ParticipACTION. Sun Life wants you to get moving. This summer the ParticipACTION Sun Life – Inspire the nation (…)

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Skinning Sitefinity: Part 1

Mike Badgley — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:48:39 +0000

In an earlier article I posted back in March, I discussed how I would be working within a CMS product by Telerick called Sitefinity for one of our major clients here at iStudio. Well the designs for the site have (…)

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Is there any value to a site map?

Mike Badgley — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:51:24 +0000

During my time as a Web developer I have worked on the development of a number of Web sites, ranging from the small and static (5-10 pages) to the large and dynamic corporate sites that have hundreds of pages. What (…)

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Screencast Review: Professional Frontend Engineering

Mike Badgley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:01:10 +0000

This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be (…)

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Dealing with the annoyances of HTML emails

Mike Badgley — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:41:46 +0000

For all you Web developers out there, I know there is at least one thing we all have in common – our absolute hatred of HTML emails. They are a constant struggle and the backwards methods we are forced to (…)

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No form? No probem. No submit button? IE6 hangs!

Mike Badgley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:01 +0000

I came across a rather curious IE6 bug today on the RBC Structured Notes Web site we developed here at iStudio. First, a bit of a background. The RBC SN Web site, among other things, displays Notes pages to investors (…)

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The full of work

Mike Badgley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:35:59 +0000

An article I read this morning on SitePoint called Styling the html and body Elements made me re-think the way I implement my core template framework. In the past, I’ve always placed each template in a wrapper <div> and then used that for (…)

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