Web Design Blog - May 30, 2008

The Perfect Bag?

I'm often on the road. The laptop always accompanies. On the weekends or while traveling for fun I like to bring my photography equipment. How can I possibly avoid multi-bag syndrome? I not only like clean, simple and easy coding and design, but also my luggage, and on a philosophical note: my life to some degree. I've recently found the bag that does it all - The Tenba Messenger. Fully loaded it holds both my laptop, camera body, three lenses and flash. Not to mention needed files. I can easily... read more!

May 30, 2008 5:22pm by john chase

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Ergo Economics

I found myself wondering how much correct posture is truly worth today. Getting work done with jobs like ours here at Luna requires considerable time at the keyboard, as you might imagine. The only question is, how to best arrange laptop, external monitor/keyboard, desk and chair? We all know how this it ought to be done; i.e. this handy diagram. However, actually accomplishing this isn't the easiest of tasks. Derived from greek; ergon (work) and nomos (laws), we've created ergonomics - the sci... read more!

May 30, 2008 4:28pm by john chase

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Microsoft Word Characters ruining your day?

Recently we were creating some html files from some content one of our clients sent over in a ms word document. I bet a lot of you are familiar with the fact that word uses non-websafe characters such as the classic m-dash or unconventional apostrophes/single quotes. Below is an easy to use script that will clean out some of the most common ms word characters that do not behave well on the web. I am aware you can change some character encoding settings, but in most cases do you really need to ha... read more!

May 30, 2008 2:37pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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