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KBTX's staff has once again been recognized by its peers in the media for its work
As announced Friday, News 3 will receive 23 honors in the 2012-2013 edition of the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Awards, including eight first place awards. It's the most total honors the station has ever received in the competition, and the most of any station in Texas this year.
KBTX is also a finalist in the Newscast category, which will be announced at a banquet to honor the winners on April 13 in Austin.
The TAPB Awards are divided into four divisions, and KBTX is in Division 3, which features television stations in 11 other like-sized markets serving Texas.
In all, 28 stations were honored. Journalists from outside the state judge the entries.
The first places, second places and honorable mentions ("HM") are listed below, along with a link to view each entry.
1. Cody Coil & Michael Oder, 10 at Ten, Nov. 10, 2012 (Click here)
HM: Darryl Bruffett,10 at Ten, Sept. 19, 2012 (Click here)
HM: Shel Winkley, News 3 at Noon, March 29, 2012 (Click here)
Morning Newscast
2. Brazos Valley This Morning, Sept. 19, 2012 (Click here)
News Anchor or Anchor Team
2. John Gilbert & Meredith Stancik (Click here)
HM: Rashi Vats (Click here)
Spot Coverage-Station
1. Manziel's Road to the Heisman (Click here)
2. Bachmann Shooting (Click here)
Feature (Light)
1. Shane McAuliffe. The Curious Keys of the MSC (Click here)
HM: Shane McAuliffe. Holding the Reins of Inspiration (Click here)
1. KBTX (Click here)
2. Shane McAuliffe (Click here)
Sports Story
2. Cody Coil. Manziel's Hill Country History (Click here)
HM: Stephanie Ando & Andrew Bray. Team Justin (Click here)
Documentary/TV Magazine or Special
2. Manziel's Road to the Heisman (Click here)
HM: Remembering Brian Bachmann (Click here)
1. Nicole Morten. Journey to Freedom (Click here)
2. Steve Fullhart & Lee Carpio. Aggie Airman Lost (Click here)
Continuing Coverage
1. Shel Winkley & Michael Oder. Drought Recovery (Click here)
HM: KBTX.com
Deadline Editing: General News
1. Nicole Morten. Calvert Arson (Click here)
Feature Editing: General News
1. Steve Fullhart. Through Smoke (Click here)
Previous Years' TAPB Awards for KBTX
2008-2009: 13 honors
2009-2010: 19 honors
2010-2011: 18 honors
2011-2012: 16 honors


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Author Notes: This recipe was inspired by a drink I love at a local cafe. (Theirs is "magic coffee.") After my first taste, I went home and immediately started tweaking a recipe. They brew the coffee hot, but since it was summer and I am lazy, I wanted to use a cold-brewed coffee base, and I started with a recipe from the Times. There's lots of room for variation depending on what flavors you like--I did a Scandinavian version with white sugar, almond extract, and crushed fennel seeds too. —ErinH
Food52 Review: One of those recipes that's a great concept rather than a precise formula, ErinH's iced coffee takes inspiration from both her local coffee house and the New York Times. Adding a teaspoon of cinnamon and a few spoonfuls of dark brown sugar to the coffee as it cold-brews gives it a lush sweetness and a hit of warmth. After a night in the fridge, you strain the coffee and pour it over ice cubes. Then comes the cream. (Or milk, depending on your mood.) And then, as ErinH says, you "die of happiness." We loved this iteration and think her "Scandinavian version" (using almond extract and fennel) sounds like a winner too. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 2-4
Prep time: 5 hrs
Coffee Base
cup coarsely ground coffee
cups water
teaspoon cinnamon
tablespoons dark brown sugar
The Finished Drink
milk, half and half, or cream
Coffee Base
- Put ingredients in a quart jar and stir.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
The Finished Drink
- Pour the coffee base through a sieve or strainer into a bowl, then strain back into jar for easy storage.
- For each drink: Fill a tall glass halfway with ice. Pour in coffee until glass is about 3/4 full, and add milk/half and half/cream to taste.
- Die of happiness.
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LINCOLN — Rep. Mike Fisher, a Lincoln Democrat, this Wednesday will lead a community discussion on current and national efforts on Health Care Reform and the next steps.
The discussion will take place on Oct. 3 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Library.
Fisher is chairman of the House Health Care Committee and had a hand in crafting heath care reform legislation in Vermont.
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The Rotary Club of Okatie-Bluffton organized a service project, Happy Feet, from its 19th Annual Charity Polo proceeds, matched by a district grant. A new pair of shoes and socks were provided from the Bluffton Payless Shoe store to third-and fourth-grade students from Okatie area schools, selected by the school social workers.
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Subject: Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Date: February 5, 2014
Description: The First National Bank of Wellston
Counterfeit Cashier's Checks of The First National Bank of Wellston, Wellston, Ohio
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks and Federal Savings Associations; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (Districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsels; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that two different versions of counterfeit cashier's checks, both using a correct routing number of 044203850, are being presented for payment nationwide. These payments are being made in connection with a variety of Internet overpayment scams, including but not limited to online auctions and fictitious job opportunities.
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Beet Mozzarella Salad with Gorgonzola Dressing
I love this salad as a light lunch meal, especially with the flavorful gorgonzola salad dressing. Alternating thin slices of mozzarella and red beets make up the core of the salad; I placed them on a bed of arugula and flavored them with a leek vinaigrette. Lightly toasted pine nuts added a little crunch.
Serve with slices of toasted sourdough rye bread and you'll be satisfied for the rest of the day.
Yields: 8 servings6 large beets (see tips), steamed and thinly sliced
3 cups arugula
1 fresh mozzarella ball
4 leeks
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons store-bought pickled onions, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon honey
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white peppercorns, freshly cracked
3 tablespoons pine nuts, lightly toasted
1 cup tofu sauce (click on the link for the recipe)
2 tablespoons oil-cured black olives
1 ounce gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoons coarse-grained mustard
How to prepare the leeks: Trim the hairy root but make sure not to cut so high that all the leaves separate. Cut about 4 inches off the long dark green top part of the leek as well. It's very fibrous and not as tender. You can save it for making vegetable stock. Remove a layer or two if the leaves are wilted.
Fill a large bowl of water and rinse the leeks. Try to open up the leaves so you can remove all the sand and dirt. Make sure the center portion is still intact so the vegetable holds together. Wash the leeks again under cold running water; there might still be more sand.
Place a steamer basket over a good amount of water in a large saucepan. Add the leeks to the basket. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a gentle simmer. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes (depending on how thick the leeks are).
Let cool to room temperature. Cut the leeks into 1" pieces. Set aside.
Making the gorgonzola dressing: In a blender, combine the tofu sauce, mustard, olive oil and gorgonzola and mix until it flows smoothly. Season with salt and white pepper. Set aside.
Assembly time:
Cover the serving platter with arugula. Add rows of beets and mozzarella, alternating them until all the ingredients are used. Top with chopped olives, pickled onions. Place the leek pieces around the edges of the platter. Cover the center of the rows with the gorgonzola dressing and sprinkle with pine nuts.
Bon appétit!
If you prepare the salad in advance, you could chill in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve. Remove the beets from the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving to bring them back to room temperature.
You can use fresh garlic instead of the pickled garlic but the garlic flavor is going to be a lot stronger. You can find pickled garlic in Asian stores.
Here are a few tips to prevent beets from staining yourself and your kitchen:
- Rule #1: Wear dark-colored clothes.
- Rule #2: Grease your hands with oil before touching the beets.
- Rule #3: Do not cut (or place) beets on a marble baking slab!
- Rule #4: Use a plastic cutting board. You can eventually toss it or bleach it later.
- Rule #5: If unfortunately, you stained your wooden cutting board, use the same technique as you would for removing wine stains; sprinkle a little kosher salt on the stain and spray a little water. Wait for an hour.


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SAN ANTONIO — Tim Duncan scored 27 points and the San Antonio Spurs took advantage of Serge Ibaka's absence to dominate the paint, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 122-105 on Monday night in the opener of the Western Conference finals.
Manu Ginobili added 18 points and Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green had 16 points each. Tony Parker did not appear limited by a hamstring injury, scoring 14 points and having 12 asssists.
Kevin Durant scored 28 points and Russell Westbrook added 25. Oklahoma City's remaining starters, Nick Collison, Thabo Sefolosha and Kendrick Perkins combined to score five points.
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Edinburg Woman Indicted in Mortgage Fraud Scheme
|U.S. Attorney's Office June 14, 2013
PLANO, TX—A 34-year-old Edinburg, Texas woman has been indicted in a bank fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
Lacie Devine was indicted on June 13, 2013, by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. If convicted, Devine faces up to 20 years in federal prison and possible restitution of $3.7 million.
According to the indictment, Devine, an escrow officer at National Escrow & Title LLC, is alleged to have been involved in a wide-spread mortgage fraud scheme involving loan officers, recruiters, home sellers, and home buyers. The indictment alleges that Devine conspired with others to falsify home buyers' loan applications, to falsify real estate settlement statements, and to distribute lender funds to parties that were not disclosed on the settlement statements and were not disclosed to the lenders. Devine's scheme resulted in losses to mortgage lenders and to those that insured these mortgages, including The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
Others who have pleaded guilty in connection with the case include Ronzell Mitchell, 36, of Edmond, Oklahoma; Christi Wyatt, 41, of Desoto, Texas; Roslyn Long, 45, of Plano; Michael Ross, 35, of Dallas; and Curtis Callier, 32, of Dallas.
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This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, HUD-Office of Inspector General, Federal Housing Finance Agency-Office of Inspector General, and Texas Department of Insurance-Fraud Unit. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chris Eason and Andy Williams.
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After a tough two days following his sweeping Republican Senate primary victory in Kentucky, Rand Paul has canceled on Meet the Press.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says a claim by Mitt Romney about disproportionate job losses by women during the Obama administration is "misleading and ridiculous."
Romney said last week that 92.3 percent of jobs lost since President Barack Obama took office were lost by women. He said the "real war on women is being waged by the president's failed economic policies."
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So, I must admit, I was one of those that was totally in favor of not flocking Panthor. So much so that I was even disappointed that there was not a completely unflocked verison of Moss Man..and even a little upset that Grizzlor is going to be furry. But that's all changed now.
My boyfriend and I were driving to the movie theatre tonight, and I jokingly made the comment that it is sad he will be out of town when my She-Ra arrives on Friday. He used to love MOTU as a kid but thinks I'm silly for collecting MOTUC now. Oh well. Nobody's perfect.
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John Brooks Binns was one of my paternal great-grandfathers. He was born March 20th, 1910 in Monticello (Drew County), Arkansas to John Milton Binns and Perthenia Brooks.
On August 19th, 1934, he married the love of his life and my great-grandmother, Blanche Kathryne Hill in Longview, Texas. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Fort Smith, (Sebastian County) Arkansas in 1984.
John Binns and his wife Blanche were school teachers in Alma, Arkansas. They had three daughters together. John had blonde hair and blue eyes and was approximately 6 feet tall. He cherished all his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was a hugger. I remember he used to squeeze me so tight I couldn't breathe! He played football in high school and college. He attended Monticello A&M College in the early 1930s. He was president of the college Press Club and well-liked by his peers.
John Brooks Binns died December 10, 1989 in Fort Smith, (Sebastian County) Arkansas. He was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Fort Smith, (Sebastian County) Arkansas. His wife Blanche (Hill) Binns died December 27th, 1992 and was buried beside him in Roselawn Cemetery.
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The Future of C++
JB: Your research group is looking into parallel and distributed systems. From this research, have any new ideas for the new C++0x standard come about?
BS: Not yet. The gap between a research result and a tool that can be part of an international standard is enormous. Together with Gabriel Dos Reis at TAMU, I have worked on the representation of C++ aiming at better program analysis and transformation (eventually to be applied to distributed system code). That will become important some day. A couple of my grad students analyzed the old problem of multi-methods (calling a function selected based on two or more dynamic types) and found a solution that can be integrated into C++ and performs better in time and space than any workaround. Together with Michael Gibbs from Lockheed-Martin, I developed a fast, constant-time, dynamic cast implementation. This work points to a future beyond C++0x.
JB: You have some thoughts on how programming can be improved, generally. What are they?
BS: There is immense scope for improvement. A better education is a start. I think that theory and practice have become dissociated in many cases, with predictably poor results. However, we should not fool ourselves into seeing education and/or training as a panacea. There are on the order of 10 million programmers "out there" and little agreement on how to improve education. In the early days of C++, I worried a lot about "not being able to teach teachers fast enough." I had reason to worry because much of the obvious poor use of C++ can be traced to fundamental misunderstandings among educators. I obviously failed to articulate my ideals and principles sufficiently. Given that the problems are not restricted to C++, I'm not alone in that. As far as I can see, every large programming community suffers, so the problem is one of scale.
"Better programming languages" is one popular answer, but with a new language you start by spending the better part of a decade to rebuild existing infrastructure and community, and the advance comes at the cost of existing languages: At least some of the energy and resources spent for the new language would have been spent on improving old ones.
There are so many other areas where significant improvements are possible: IDEs, libraries, design methods, domain specific languages, etc. However, to succeed, we must not lose sight of programming. We must remember that the aim is to produce working, correct, and well-performing code. That may sound trite, but I am continuously shocked over how little code is discussed and presented at some conferences that claim to be concerned with software development.
JB: An area of interest for you is multi-paradigm (or multiple-style) programming. Could you explain what this is for you, what you have been doing with multi-paradigm programming lately and do you have any examples of the usefulness of multi-paradigm programming?
BS: Almost all that I do in C++ is "multi-paradigm." I really have to find a better name for that, but consider: I invariably use containers (preferably standard library (STL) containers); they are parameterized on types and supported by algorithms. That's generic programming. On the other hand, I can't remember when I last wrote a significant program without some class hierarchies. That's object-oriented programming. Put pointers to base classes in containers and you have a mixture of GP and OOP that is simpler, less error prone, more flexible, and more efficient than what could be done exclusively in GP or exclusively in OOP. I also tend to use a lot of little free-standing types, such as Color and Point. That's basic data abstraction and such types are of course used in class hierarchies and in containers.
JB: You are looking at making C++ better for systems programming in C++0x as I understand it, is that correct? If so, what general facilities or features are you thinking about for making C++ a great systems language?
BS: Correct. The most direct answer involves features that directly support systems programming, such as thread local storage and atomic types. However, the more significant part is improvements to the abstraction mechanism that will allow cleaner code for higher-level operations and better organization of code without time or space overheads compared to low-level code. A simple example of that is generalized constant expressions that allows compile-time evaluate of functions and guaranteed compile-time initialization of memory. An obvious use of that is to put objects in ROM. C++0x also offers a fair number of "small features" that without adding to run-time costs make the language better for writing demanding code, such as static assertions, rvalue references (for more efficient argument passing) and improved enumerations.
Finally, C++0x will provide better support for generic programming and since generic programming using templates has become key to high performance libraries, this will help systems programming also. For example, here we find concepts (a type system for types and combinations of types) to improve static checking of template code.
JB: You feel strongly about better education for software developers. Would you say, generally, that education in computer programming is appalling? Or so-so? If you were to design a course for high school students and a course (an entire degree) for university students intending to become professional, what would you include in these courses and what would you emphasize?
BS: Actually, I just took part in an effort to do that for the four undergraduate years. Unfortunately, the descriptions you find of our program on the web is still a mix of new and old stuff—real-world programs can only be put in place in stages. The idea is to give the students a broad view of computer science during the first two years ("making them ready for their first internship or project") and then using the next two years to go into depth in some selected areas. During the first two years, the students get a fairly classical CS program with a slightly higher component of software development projects than is common. They have courses in hardware and software (using C++), there is some discrete math, algorithms and data structures, (operating and network) systems, programming languages, and a "programming studio" exposing them to group projects and some project management.
JB: In an ideal world for you, what will C++0x be in terms of all the goodies in the new Standard Library and language?
BS: Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world and C++0x won't get all the "goodies" I'd like and probably a fewer "minor" features than I would have liked. Fortunately, the committee has decided to try for more and smaller increments. For example, C++0x (whether that'll be C++09 or C++10) will have only the preparations for programmer-controlled garbage collection and lightweight concurrency, whereas we hope for the full-blown facilities in C++12 (or C++13).
I do—based on existing work and votes—expect to get:
- Libraries
- Threads
- Regular expressions
- Hash tables
- Smart pointers
- Many improvements for containers
- Quite a bit support for new libraries
- Language
- A memory model supporting modern machine architectures
- Thread local storage
- Atomic types
- Rvalue references
- Static assertions
- Template aliases
- Variadic templates
- Strongly typed enums
- constexpr: Generalized constant expressions
- Control of alignment
- Delegating constructors
- Inheriting constructors
- auto: Deducing variable types from initializers
- Control of defaults
- nullptr: A name for the null pointer
- initializer lists and uniform initialization syntax and semantics
- concepts (a type system for template arguments)
- a range-based for loop
- raw string literals
- UTF8 literals
- Lambda functions
For a more detailed description of both my ideals, the work of the ISO C++ standards committee, and C++0x, see my HOPL-iii paper: "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006. ACM HOPL-III" from earlier this year. Also, see the ISO C++ committee's web site where you can find more details than you could possibly want (search for "WG21" and look for "papers").
BS: C++ is often used in embedded systems, including those where safety and security are top priorities. What are your favorite examples and why do you think C++ is an ideal language for embedded systems especially where safety is a concern, aside from easy low-level machine access?
BS: Yes, and I find many of those applications quite exciting. Too often people think of computing as "what runs on a PC with a single user in front of it." Obviously, my Bell Labs background biases me towards noticing the uses of software in cell phones, telecommunications devices, and systems in general. So much of our infrastructure is invisible and taken for granted! "The gadgets" we can see. That's one reason I like embedded systems programming. Another is the stringent demands on correctness (even with some hardware malfunction) and performance. In such software, there is a need for clear design and precise expression of ideas that can challenge a language.
Among my favorite examples are the modern wind-power generators and the huge diesel engines that power the largest container ships. We can't talk about invisibility here, but then people don't see those huge "structures" as containing computers running software that is critical to their correct, efficient, and economical performance. I have also seen some interesting uses of C++ in aerospace, notably the new "Joint Strike Fighter" (the F-35), but my favorite is the higher levels of the Mars Rover software (scene analysis and autonomous driving). The whole Rover project is really a stunning success. Both Rovers have outlived their promised design life by a factor of 6 and are (as I write this) still working their way across Mars looking, prodding, and sending home data. Again, the Rovers themselves are just the visible part of a huge complex system: just try to imagine what it takes to get the data back to earth and analyzed. Almost all of computer science and almost all of our engineering skills are involved here somewhere. The range of skilled people involved is really hard to imagine. Too often we forget the people.
I don't think there exists an "ideal language" for these kinds of systems, but C++ is a good one. Part of the reason is that any large system, such as a cell phone or a Rover depends on its huge hidden infrastructure. Obviously, you don't have to use a single language for everything, but there are enough overlaping parts of applications for C++'s flexibility, generality, and concern for performance to come into play. Many languages deemed simpler achieve their simplicity through limiting their range of applications or by making great demands on the underlying hardware and (software) execution environments.
JB: Would you say that the document JSF++: Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle Coding Standards that can be found under your C++ links, under the point "For a look at how ISO C++ can be used for serious embedded systems programming" is generally a good guide for any embedded systems programming, and perhaps for other things as well?
BS: Yes, that's a good guide for the kind of applications for which it was written. For those, I'm convinced that it's the best of its kind; I helped write it. It is very important to note, though, that with experience, we will find improvements and if applied to areas for which it was not intended, it could do harm. For example, the JSF++ prohibits the use of free store (dynamic store) and exceptions, whereas for general programming you typically need to use those features to get the best code. However, for high-reliability, hard-real time code, the simple fact that a new and a throw can't (in general) be guaranteed to execute on a short, fixed, constant time makes them a no-no. I also recommend the ISO C++ committee's Technical Report on performance, which can also be found on my C++ page. It is primarily aimed at embedded systems programming, but discusses issues rather than lay out rules. Please also note that the JSF++ document is about half rationale: people should not be asked to do things "just because we say so." At least we can try to explain the reasons behind the rules.
In general, I think it essential that a coding standard is tuned to a specific application, organization, or application area. Trying to "legislate morality" for all users is counter-productive.
JB: What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Have you read any books or watched any films lately that you liked, and if yes, why?
Spare time? I like to run and to sightsee when I have a chance (usually when traveling for something work-related). Taking photographs is an excellent excuse for spending a bit of extra time in interesting places. Spending time with family is a high priority, and a pleasure, of course. I read non-technical books essentially every day. That's mostly light reading to relax. I recently re-read some of Raymond Chandler's novels; they age well. I also just finished Terry Jones and Alan Ereira's "Barbarians" about how the Romans really were the destructive villains of the ancient world; that's a refreshingly different perspective. I have always been fascinated by history. There are so many parts of history that nobody would have believed it if it wasn't real—after all fiction has to be probable. And then, of course, you can't read just one book about history; you need to read a lot to understand the context of events and to avoid being sold a biased fairy tale version of something. Before that, I read Richard Dawkin's "Climbing Mount Improbable"; I basically have to re-learn biology because just about everything is new since I left school. Curiously, I'm often asked about my non-technical reading habits, so I posted a short list among my home pages.
James Buchanan is a programmer and freelance technical journalist. He can be contacted at [email protected]


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It made me feel a little nostalgic, a little sad, but mostly very relieved.
Raymond had a decent turn out, selling copies of his newest (The Black Stiletto). Everyone was upbeat and happy to be there, and it was nice to see many familiar faces. I had booklaunch parties for most of my paper books, and I still count many of those as fond memories.
But I don't see me making any new booklaunch memories. As I was there, I was struck by the likelihood that not only would I never have another launch party, but I may actually never attend another book signing, for me or for anyone else.
This is the end of an era.
The end has been on the horizon for a while. Years, even. I remember attending events like the Chicago Printer's Row Book Fair, and Book Expo America, and relishing the excitement of being a new author, the energy in the air, the burning need to get my name out there.
This summer, Printer's Row seemed to be about half the size it was back in 2007. The same thing for BEA.
One of my favorite bookstores, Waldenbooks in Peru, IL, just closed its doors a few days ago. The manager there, Greg Swanson, has handsold over 2000 of my books in that location.
Nope, that ain't a typo. Over 2000. It's probably more than that--I stopped asking a while ago.
Greg, and two other bookstore gurus named Paul Pessolano and Jim Munchel have handsold so many of my books that I named three characters after them in my novel Fuzzy Navel. That came out in summer, 2008.
Three years later, their bookstores have all closed.
It's not even the beginning of the end. We're firmly in the middle of the end.
I spent a lot of hours in bookstores, and at writing conferences. While I won't miss paper books, I will certainly miss the camaraderie of booksellers, and hanging out at events. But I don't see myself doing many more. In fact, I don't see there being many more.
This bitter pill is made much easier to swallow with the new publishing paradigm. A lot of my peers are doing well with ebooks--much better than they did in print. I saw an old friend, Al Ansorge, at Raymond's party.
"I sold 2000 ebooks on Kindle last month," he told me. "It's all your fault."
Greg took five years of fulltime 9-to-5 to sell 2000 of mine, and Al did it on his own in a month.
Rock on, Al. (And check out Al's book Crossing the Centerline, only 99 cents.)
Change hurts. But this is ultimately a change that's better for the authors. We no longer have to travel all over and handsell paper books. We no longer have to depend on booksellers to stock us. We can reach more readers and make more money and do it faster and easier than we ever could in the old system.
The party is over. We had a lot of fun, but all good things must come to an end. Kiss the hostess. Grab your coat. It's time to go.


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It's purpose is to prevent any outside electrical disturbances from negatively affecting your electrical equipment inside your building.
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But I love the cornflakes chivda which you get in Mumbai and its much easier to make as well. I used this recipe from The Cooker and it was abosutely fuss free and such a delicious snack!
Cornflakes Chivda
(adapted from this recipe)
Cornflakes - 6 cups
cashewnuts - split into half - 1/4 cup
peanuts (with skin)- 1/2 cup
raisins - 1/3 cup
mustard seeds - 2 tsp
Curry leaves - handful
fennel seeds (saunf) - 1 tsp
red chilli powder - 1 tsp
salt - to taste
oil - 3-4 tbsp
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
lime juice - 1 tbsp
sugar - 1 tsp
1. Heat oil in a large pan. Add the mustard seeds and when they start popping, add the curry leaves and turmeric.
2. Then add the peanuts and fry till half roasted.
3. Add the cashews, raisins, red chilli powder, fennel seeds, lemon juice and fry for 3-4 minutes till the cashews are toasted, the rasins are plumped up and the peanuts are fully roasted.
4. Pour in the cornflakes and salt and turn off the flame. Mix well taking care not to crush the cornflakes. When slightly cool, add the sugar.
5. Store in air tight containers.


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Posted by: Johnny Loftus on July 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Music Tapes, "Minister of Longitude" (Merge, 2008)
Elephant 6 veteran Julian Koster put out a record as Music Tapes on Merge in 1999, but nothing more was heard from him or the group. Until now, that is. The nameplate is revived with Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes, from which "Minister of Longitude" is the lead jam. It's rattle-trap indie folk, full of what can only be described as whimsy (or maybe just Flaming Lips love), and while that can be a big turnoff — bigger even than the metronome that stars in this clip — Koster and his collaborators keep the hum and grind at the center of "Longitude" churning effectively. Best bit though: the dad dancing at the end of this video. — Johnny Loftus
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Curtis Eilers '06by Curtis Eilers '06 • October 19, 2005 Share:
I thought about the beach on the way to Mississippi. I'd never seen the Gulf before, and it was also the only thing I could be sure was still there. That was pretty close to reality.
Near the coast, in Biloxi, the destruction was inconceivable. We toured the area, seeing porch steps leading to nothing, flipped cars, cinder blocks strewn like fallen leaves, and somehow a perfectly intact roof collapsed over what had been an expensive beach-front home. I couldn't shake the feeling of how temporary everything was, as we played on the broken remnants of the I-90 Bridge.
I hadn't originally planned to go, but they needed drivers. I wanted to visit my family and friends in Cincinnati, and get some egregiously overdue work done for my summer internship. Even now that I'm playing catch-up, it was definitely worth the trip, one of the most moving things I've been a part of.
Before going down a lot of people I talked to were critical of the whole venture, that we'd just be in the way, it would help more if we just sent money, or even that everything was fine now, since it had been a few weeks. I became self-conscious, not knowing what kind of work to expect. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The situation on the Gulf Coast right now is normalized chaos. People are able to get food (we ate most of our meals at a free cafeteria tent set-up in Moss Point) and most have a place to stay, but lining the roads everywhere is what seems like everything anyone ever owned being thrown out en masse, along with most of the interiors of their homes. That is what we spent most of our time doing, cutting off drywall at the waterline and tearing out everything underneath, usually covered in mold and still damp.
I feel like I made some great friends in just a few days. The idea of spending fall break driving for 30 hours, camping out, and doing hard manual labor every day tends to attract some awesome people. And through it all we became a pretty tight knit group. It was nice to help people, to do something direct and personal, and now I have a great story about how Ben Nguyen Tang Le made us stop in the Vietnamese Community where we ended up helping install insulation in a Buddhist Temple.
I'm grateful to Wabash, and the Malcolm X Institute for setting up this trip, and everyone who decided to go.


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HandoffMay 21, 2008
A few months back at SXSW I sat on a panel that discussed how designers and developers play nice together on web projects. One of the things I never got around to mentioning was the system I use for handing off my static design work to clients and their developers for integration into their dynamic systems. Since I've been thinking about it a bit more in the past few weeks, I figured I ought to put this out there.
I prefer to start in Photoshop, and keep most of the big picture design work there if possible. I find designing with CSS leads me to make decisions based on what's easiest to code, whereas moving things around the screen visually gets me better results. Your mileage may vary.
During the initial design process, my mockups for client preview are delivered as flat image files. Each is given an increasing version number like
home-page-v3.png, and by about v3 or v4 I'm usually pushing for signoff to start coding.
Since most sites involve multiple page templates, I'll often be concurrently designing some while coding others. The first one or two I do set the stage, so I try to pick templates to code that involve as many visual elements and layout variations as I can so that I'm thinking about the possibilities from the start. I'll build out those first few, then package up the HTML, CSS, and various image files into a ZIP archive and deliver that as
The developer will take that and start implementing that, while I move on to designing and coding out the rest. I'll build new ZIP files as I finish new templates and increase the version number of the archive. Each subsequent ZIP file is meant to totally replace the old. My instructions are basically, take these updated CSS and image folders and dump them on top of the last round.
The HTML poses a bit more of a challenge though; the new versions do replace the old static versions, but by at this point the developer I'm working with has started integrating them with their system, so it's not quite as simple as overwriting pre-existing folders. There's more manual work involved for them; they need to run a
diff and apply the changes to their development version. Not a huge task, but a least a little more overhead than overwriting folders.
There's also an assumption built into this process: I own the CSS and image folders, and will be the only one making changes to them. In cases where the developer has needed the ability to modify CSS at will, it's proven a good idea to create a separate running development CSS file that ends up being integrated with the rest near the end of the project. Images could work the same way, though I usually find those are self-correcting; if the developer needs their own image folders outside of those I've built they'll figure out how to make it all work without my intervention.
And there's definitely a side-discussion here about designers using version control systems like Subversion. I've personally adapted to doing so, and what I'm describing above is kind of a manual way of doing the same thing. But the advantage to this system is that it firmly places the control of the application logic in the hands of the developers, and the designer never has to see wade around inside their Ruby or PHP or Python to find the place to change a
div element's class, for example.
I'm curious to hear how other people handle handoff, as this is simply my own system that I've evolved over the years as the result of preparing in advance for moving goalposts like feature requests and design changes after my work is theoretically finished. I think it handles fairly well, but perhaps there are better ways.
So I'm obviously coming at from the complete other side (being a developer), but our system is similar, except that, with one exception, our design partners generally just give us the PS files, and we then chop it up and do our own CSS & HTML - because the designers I work with tend to build really ugly HTML. The designer who DOES do her own css & html has a system very similar - she provides templates & css files, and continually "owns" those, as well as images, and will send us new ones as revisions come in. We normally add one interim step - after the first round, we add in comments to her source that are things like [CODEBLOCK:1],[MENUBLOCK:2], so she knows that we're going to be messing around in those areas and generally, not to touch them, which has helped when doing further rounds. But I certainly wish that our designers used subversion, or SOMETHING to pass things through!
I am still a student, but in any project I have worked on, a developer has been the owner of all CSS and HTML. I definitely wouldn't mind working with a designer who took ownership of CSS, and used SVN. That would be awesome.
Same as stv, I'm a developer, the designers send me PSD files and I do the rest of the job: HTML & CSS then PHP coding.
Mercurial(HG) for distributed version control seems to work very well, as an alternative to SVN.
Speaking as a developer, I'd prefer, as written above, that designers stay the away from the HTML and in some cases also the CSS(depending on the skill of the designer).
If the designer insists on writing HTML, I'd prefer looking at versioned static page with changes commited to a repo of its own.
I work from end-to-end, all aspects are in-house. Seems like I'm lucky I guess.
At BKWLD, our designers comp everything up in Photoshop, post flattened files for each page to our client proofing server and send the un-flattened PSDs to the lead developer.
The lead developer is responsible for creating a Subversion repository that contains all the project's assets, including comps, documentation, wireframes, database ERD and schema, as well as the development build of the site itself.
SVN takes care of all the particulars so the dev team can divvy up responsibilities in a way that best suits each project. While all of our developers are designers, not all of our designers are developers. We generally consider the build out (markup/CSS) the developer's responsibility, not the designers.
Thanks for sharing your methods, you can do this more often, Dave :)
As a designer who started to code his screen designs for him self I'm both in one person, designer and code monkey. The benefits are obviously: While I'm designing I already know the best/easiest way how to put it into css/xhtml and can minimize the situations in which a design requires an gratuitous amount of markup. However, I also trap my self like you designing not what's the best design but what's the easiest to code.
I don't spend much efford on naming the design versions. Mostly the become what_ever_2_green_highlights.jpg (the thing after the version number describes the major change)
I'm also sometimes switching in my role as a designer and coder. I either create a design or I get one. Then we are not working with PSDs but lossless PNGs. You may argue that a PNG doesn't contain as much comfort as a PSD, but you'll wonder how rarely a change in the design (like hiding layers) is required.
If you're using a PSD anyway try to compress it with a packer like Winzip or Winrar. It's amazing how small these files become, sometimes up to -500%. A not irrelevant factor if you have to deal with a 1 Mbit connection and 20 MB PSD files.
I think it depends on the scale of the project and - to an extent - the complexity of the development code.
For instance, in a recent Wordpress project, I handed off XHTML and CSS to the developer, ready for them to 'Wordpress-ify' it, and then factored in a bit of time for them sending me their 'finished' files for me to look over and tweak the markup and CSS where necessary. Technically there shouldn't be any changes, but little nuances can creep in here and there so it's nice to be able to add a little polish if required, as long as this work can be planned, accounted, and charged for accordingly. And with something like Wordpress it's obviously a lot easier to do; I wouldn't feel as comfortable working around 'finished' Perl code.
It also comes down to the flexibility of the development code, too. In another recent project (developed using RoR), the developer told me I could mark it up in any way I wanted at all and he'd work around my code. I'm not saying RoR is necessarily more flexible than another codebase - and it almost certainly depends on the developer's proficiency - but it means we designers can have a little more freedom to do things our way. And when I say designers I refer to those who write their own (good) markup and CSS.
I recently stepped into a beta release of an enterprise/client web app built with Ruby on Rails and submitted my original redesign comps as image files (png). Because the original designer did the CSS and prototyped the markup, so did I.
I'm glad it happened (is happening) that way. The developers have their hands full of complex issues relating to data exchange with legacy systems as well as some serious authentication and other issues and don't typically write much markup or css.
I have been building and adding to the img files, markup, and css and making it available in zips as well as an online prototype. This has allowed me to actually demonstrate some use cases using scripting (jquery). Some of that scripting the developers plug in directly or adapt accordingly (depending on whether or not the functions are in the Rails library).
So far, so good. I've been able to catch a number of things in the developer's RoR rendering of my markup that really don't follow web standards and might create headaches later. The developers have, in turn, helped me build production CSS that works with the way they have already named (or inherited names of) data elements for the project.
Since there is an enterprise/client management side to the project, we have, in this process, developed our own framework for building out that site and functionality relatively quickly.
It's been interesting to introduce the developers to some markup ideas I'm not sure they would have considered otherwise and great to learn how even slight alterations in my markup and css can improve the performance of the site and allow for greater flexibility from the developer's point of view.
I work as a xhtml and css coder for a company. It goes like this:
1. designer draws multiple versions of a design,
2. design goes to implementators and they copy, alter and implement a pre-made php application,
3. both design and application goes to me and I write css for it according to the design,
4. then it goes to testing.
It works ok though I sometimes find myself crying about programmers' xhtml and designers' lack of knowledge of how desgins work in real. If there is enough communication among all of those subjects, the final product is good; if, however, programmer doesn't know anything valid, semantic code and designer doesn't know how designs work, it's a pain. It's all about sharing information and getting educated.
where i work the designer does initial design work and once that has been handed over the developer initiates version control and manages all html and css. you have some good points to ponder on.
'designing with CSS leads me to make decisions based on what's easiest to code'
- yep, that happens to me too.
Interesting to read about how other people work: my background is software intensive-systems so I mostly apply the processes and tools I have learned to use in other projects.
I mostly focus on making sure that information is correctly shared: requirements management, version management, issue tracking, change management…
When it comes to design, I agree that using Photoshop or similar tools give you design freedom. However, there is the backside of the coin: how long will it take to implement the beautiful design the customer has selected?
I think that starting with what is possible using CSS is a more economical viable way of working…
When I worked for myself, your methods were very very close to mine.
However, now that I work for an ad agency things are a little different:
1. the design department is responsible for creating mockups in Photoshop under the supervision of a CSS/UI representative from the technology team and the creative director.
2. once signed off on by the client, the design is usually tweaked according to the signoff and is then handed to the tech team.
3. the tech team then codes the xhtml/css and integrates into a cms or other custom web application that the tech team has built.
At the company I work at, we have a web project manager, 2 developers and I am the designer. I personally think that one person should control (at least the over-all template) the HTML+CSS+Images while the others work on the server side stuff+javascript.
Once I finish the template for the site I hand it over to the developers to work on page specific projects. This seems to be a good way to go about it since I generate a standards based layout and design from the start (although unfortunately when more workers get involved that can go downhill fast if you're not careful.) and they apply their personal flavor to the back-end code.
On a side note the designer sometimes has to act like the CSS+Standards Czar to make sure things don't get out of control.
I've done much the same as your example in the past. I usually try to comment the HTML as needed to point out changes. Usually they're minimal enough after the initial files are sent that a few comments can point out differences. Of course, it's always nice to be able to jump into templates and alter things your self!
I must be the only designer/developer middle man that works in Illustrator 90% of the time. The layer-only interface of PhotoShop has always been a usability nightmare for me. I can deal with .5 pixel anti-aliasing more than I can with PhotoShop.
My creative director gives me two templates: a homepage and a content page usually. I create all subsequent pages by mimicking his layout and create the HTML/CSS from their and give it to the developer piecemeal.
At the company I work for, it is the designers who slice up the PSD files, build the HTML and CSS, and do some initial development. We work in .NET, so that usually involves setting up the master pages and a few controls. We find it helps designers think about how a design is going to work in the "real world" if they are the ones having to make it work.
From that point, the project is mostly handed off to the developers, but there is constant communication between designer and developer as the project progresses, and often they have to work together to finish up various pieces, and even handling the same files back and forth.
I am one of two webdesigners in a midsized webdesign and development company.
I design, write the CSS and HTML, and dive into PHP and Ruby myself to integrate the design - because I know all the tiny details about the design this can happen relatively fast. Besides, there's always interaction issues you need to fix that are hard to mock up.
I can't believe everyone just hands off their designs. Maybe I'm working in environments that are MVC heavy (in a sense that I only need to work in the view/template), making it easier for a non developer to integrate the design into the backend system - or maybe I'm just a weird webdesigner.
With all due respect to the very distinguished author and commentators there - to my mind anyway - is something wierd going on here. What is apparently going on is that the *design* appears to be subject to a completely different process from developing the content around the messages, the concept and if necessary the SEO of the site. I would not employ a *designer* who can not write CSS. If they want to design in photoshop they should be in the print media or designing ads or something. You can not express functionality in print. It may be that at the very high end of world class graphical designers that the whole production system needs to be adapted to their guruness. But what they are *designing* is CSS. Not print. It isn't a model that many agencies can afford to adopt without a lot of financial bloat.
My model:
Get content.
Markup content semantically.
Hand it to CSS stylist.
Everybody else is unnecessary overhead.
And we do not slice graphics from psd. Whatever next.
Just my 2c.
Interesting. From my perspective it sounds like YOU are the developer AND graphic designer.
I work in govt (education dept), and here we have:
- writers (teachers) who write the content.
- Instructional Designers (ID's) who translate that content into a website (course).
- Graphic Designers do all the pretty/practical stuff (nearly always Illustrator, and they give us the jpegs/gifs).
- Then us web developers take all the pretty stuff and the content and whack together the course using whatever we need (JS, CSS, XHTML, Flash etc). We use Dreamweaver, though mainly only for it's text colours and find/replace.
- Sent off to QC to check.
- Sent to the client (normally an education body), who checks and asks for any changes (even if it's from their brief), and we do them until the client is happy.
So, over here you would be doing 2 jobs. I don't know how you and a developer do the site together, as CSS and HTML go hand-in-hand.
Now I understand why my design skills are always limited. I start with CSS … as you mentioned it force you to use the easiest CSS code :D
Most of time people send me their PSDs and I convert it to xhtml/css .
wait a sec … did I hear using (svn for xhtml/css)? gonna try that :D
I'm perennially frustrated by current industry process when it comes to manufacturing a website. And, I agree with Root's perspective. My approach as a designer and developer is to do information architecture first, wireframe it, then make it pretty.
I've lost count of the number of times a 'designer' has handed me some html/css only to have the template fall to pieces when user generated content and outside feeds are introduced to the webpage. More often than not I end up spending inordinate amounts of time fixing fragile designs or, recoding the whole thing from scratch.
My point is, html/css is the canvass of the 21st century. You can't call yourself a web designer until you have mastered the medium within which you work. Like root says: if you can't do front-end get into print design, that's what photoshop is for.
I've worked for ad agencies and non-profits building pretty big websites. The smaller the team the more responsibly is given to each member. As a web designer I'm tasked with visual design and front-end development. There are times when I contribute to website documentation and design planning but this is dependent on other resources and availability. The extent to which I develop the front-end depends on timelines, functional complexity, and visual skill of the developer. I typically share a server with the developer building the site in tandem and using version control.
So the hand off between designer and developer is usually a shared server or SVN repository. I create a template directory where static XHTML pages are created and await further development. I also create a CSS and JS library.
One issue that comes up often between designer and developer is who should begin working on the server first. For developers it seems easier if there are static templates but as a designer, creating these templates would be much more efficient if the framework and logic were already in place. In the end someone always has to unwind your code a bit it do their part.
Interesting discussion. My 2 cents:
A designer should worry about the design. Indeed, he should know about css, especially the limitations of css, but most designers (and in particular conceptual designers) shouldn't be writing xhtml/css.
I myself am an xhtml/css guy. I work for a rather small company that specializes in front-end. The process here goes as follows:
1. Make wireframes
2. Make a design or hire a designer based on wireframes
3. I get a psd file.
4. I provide xhtml for each wireframe
5. I provide css for each xhtml template
6. All templates are shipped to a technical partner.
Anyway, the handoff now is still pretty shakey, as it's not always easy for a partner to implement the templates, we're currently working on a system where this should be easier, though I'm not yet at liberty to talk about the specifics.
Apart from that, we use svn to store the xhtml/css, and we have meetings and an IRC channel for communication between our partners and us.
Seems like most of the comments in the discussion discuss a dichotomy between designing and coding, i.e. the designer designs (and maybe does some coding), the developer codes. While we all have our own talents, (I tend to be a better coder than a designer, for example), it's the point of working together intelligently that makes for a better finished product.
I think it's helpful if your designer can have an introductory class in coding, and for the coder to have an introductory class in design. Or read a book or two. Or do some Googling. The point being that you need to gain an appreciation for what your counterpart does. The rare exception is for one individual to be a supreme master of both design and coding. (As I mentioned, I'm a better coder than designer…and we should each recognize our own strengths and weaknesses.) But if each of us can have a better understanding of the parameters of the other's job (i.e. "why can't you make the website look exactly the way I designed it?!" versus "why do you design the hardest things on the planet to code?!") then we are able to work together toward a better final product, and are better able to appreciate the limitations and options that the other has. :)
Interested to learn if any of you make use of a Styleguide when transitioning from stage to stage.
It adds time to be sure, but can reduce confusion on large projects where a producer / project manager / designer / front-end developer / back-end developer / tester / client all have their fingers in the pot. Additionally, it can help folks down the road who work on the project after you move on to other work.
I prefer to start in Photoshop, and keep most of the big picture design work there if possible. I find designing with CSS leads me to make decisions based on what's easiest to code
This is a great point. Design happens with sketches on paper, and then moves into Photoshop. Designing with CSS is coding, which is why it leads to design decisions based on the coding. I wouldn't recommend making a habit of 'designing' with CSS. You could probably go from pencil sketches to CSS, but Photoshop (or some other image editor) is very likely going to make an appearance in your workflow at some point. It's also less work in an iterative design process if you keep it all in Photoshop until you have signoff.
Did you notice that on your page that display comments and a post you escape your single quote, but you don't on the home page. Is it said that I noticed that. I guess that just proves I am no designer.
Great thought on the role of a designer!
I am a Web Designer, and this is my question:
How can one be a Web Designer and NOT code your own design???
I honestly don't understand how some Web Designers (seems like there are WAY more than I expected) are not the ones creating the HTML+CSS of their own web designs.
"…most designers … shouldn't be writing xhtml/css." –> I honestly couldn't disagree more.
A GOOD Web Designer should be able to conceptualize, design AND HTML+CSS code his/her own design, and then, hand it off to the programmer/developer team.
What I really think is not necessary is the 'middle man' between the design and the programming… from a project's efficiency stand point. However, I think that's good because it's a 'new' type of work and well, more jobs out there are good for the people. But other than that, no, I don't think is necessary.
Very nice article :)
I'm neither working as a designer or a developer, but I've created a couple of websites/projects over the last years, and I've been using several external designers to these projects, and they have been working differently. But I think it's absolutely easiest if the designer is able to write the HTML+CSS for the design - and if you're using a template system for generating your pages, there shouldn't be much work change the HTML for each template, if the designer just don't forget to use the same classes and ids.
But on the other hand, if the designer isn't able to write good code, he or she shouldn't try to, and just simple hand over the graphic file to someone (maybe the developer) who's capable of writing the code.
Ricardo says: ["…most designers … shouldn't be writing xhtml/css." –> I honestly couldn't disagree more.
A GOOD Web Designer should be able to conceptualize, design AND HTML+CSS code his/her own design, and then, hand it off to the programmer/developer team.]
I would like to add a short comment to this one, because I wouldn't say that a designer by nature is a web designer. It's correct, that one who calls him-/herself a web designer should be able to write the code too, but one who "just" calls him-/herself a designer hasn't by nature said anything about him/her being able to code.
And sometimes I actually thing that the "middle man" is good, because I don't want to use my own time write the template code, but at the same time, I know a couple of really good designers who I think is way better at the price, than those I can find who can also code.
My experience has been a mix of being the sole "web designer" from start to finish, to being one who hands off static psd files to a front-end developer.
The first experience can often result from a small agency where management will attempt to capitalize on using few to accomplish much. This often results in less-than-mediocre results.
The second experience can happen where there is a dedicated team of web specialists such as: information architects, designers, content specialists, web technologists, etc.
One thing I've noticed that accounts for successful web design work is having a collaborative work flow where communication is clear, no matter what your role is. The boundaries often blur between design and development and architecture, and that's ok.
Collaboration and clear communication is key.
It´s strange that nobody mentioned Fireworks in this thread. It´s an amazing piece of software that allows you to work vector and raster graphics very easily. Photoshop is great, but when it comes to many elements, that´s when things get a little messy.
Other thing is, that Fireworks has a perfect Flash compatibility. Of course I only use flash for aesthetic add ons to my designs (small picture animations, banners and so).
I want to know how do you deal with complex cutt outs with Illustrator…I mean, with alpha blending and stuff..
I tried to use COREL DRAW X3, just for the fun of it, to mock up a site…but it was useless…can´t be done. At least I can´t.
Does anyone here use GIMP?
very interesting article.
greetings from argentina.
I agree with the comments that web designers really should have a good understanding of HTML code.
Many web designers have a background in print design, and in that field there is a good example of how understanding your medium is necessary to produce effective designs:
Most print presses use four colours - CMYK - and designers have to know that colours printed out of gamut will display incorrectly and look bad on a finished piece of work.
Why should the web be any different? How can people design effectively for a medium of which they know very little?
I feel sure that the majority of influential web designs produced in recent years - particularly those that typify the 'Web 2.0' look - were produced by people who understand code and the limitations of the web. This logically leads to effective, eye-catching designs using as little code and assets /imagery as possible.
Whenever I see website designs by print designers, they are often image-intensive and require large amounts of unnecessary markup.
The site designs that I respect the most are always put together by people who both design and code.
I always do my site research first, followed with wireframe designs, then interface designs, than the project gets handed off for the developer to create in Dreamweaver (I do the designing and developing)
I'm relatively new to CSS layout, so the CSS development is one that causes me lots of frustration (as I'm sure it does with everyone).
Can anyone tell me how long it will take before I stop feeling like CSS is this giant/massive mountain that I have to climb. I feel that it could take a whole lifetime before I understand CSS layout. geez.
As a senior designer working on both web and print projects, I tend to find myself switching hats from static design to CSS and back and forth over a day.
I work in the UK, and the same problem seems to exist here. A few years back it was unthinkable for a "web" designer not to know their code, but now it seems, you can get by simply mocking up in Photoshop. I have to agree with some of the commentors here, that web-designers should have a working knowledge of html and CSS, but disagree with some, especially Root, that process should simply be code based. Everyone slices up PSD's. Duh.
In general my process is just the same as your own. Create statics, amend and approve, markup and style, handover to developers.
And Rob, CSS will come to you, and you'll have one of those "DOH" moments when you realise how simple it is when you understand the fundamentals. Just keep at it. :)
The way we work is that I (being the creative) design in PSD format and hand the finished files to my in-house developer for coding.
This is usually only handed over once I have had firm sign-off on all concepts and an agreement to any discussion on how it will all work and hang together in the working prototype.
I used to code a set of templates in XHTML and CSS and hand those over too but quickly realized that my time was better spent managing the client into a firm decision, and letting the developer put together clean, and competent code in usually half the time!
It works for us well and creates clear lines of distinction - my only problem now is the time it takes me to 'finesse' the finished XHTML and get it to display pixel precisely across all browsers.
Something which I think still is best left in the hands of creatives - no slander meant ;-)


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just subscibing to this forums so i can know when some 1 post a new comment , and maybe new prefetches.
I think I will give up....I don't know how to decrypt files the and the only game i wanted to play was kof 2003....but it seems is just impossible for me I think I will have to conform to play kof 98-2002 cause I'm bothering you too much guys.....well...thanks anyway
saludos a todos en este gran foro
just subscibing to this forums so i can know when some 1 post a new comment , and maybe new prefetches.
Sam Sho 5 special really needs a prefech If anybodys still working on it, please Update!
modify the romrc so that convneo inserts the prefetch info correctly?
do prefetches go in "CONVERTNEO/PREFETCHES" or "CONVERTNEO"?
From what I understand, the Prefetch is currently just a list of all the first 16MByte worth of pages that should be swapped into memory when starting (so most of the data is loaded in and only smalle chunks need to be loaded as game progress).
My question is, has CHUI tried some other algorithm to predict which page to swap in before they are needed in order for them to be available in memory when they are needed instead of slowing the games to pull them out of the CD-R.
Maybe some Markov model or something similar would help predicting which series of memory pages are swaped in ?
(algorithmically discovering which data comes from the same cluster : for example levels in games like Metal Slug or characters in fighting games)
I have a coder's cable somewhere but I do not have the DC_tool. Can someone direct me to It? Because the link given is dead.
I've a correct roms for kof 2003 and kof 2003 plus (from neorage X If I have a good remember) and they works :thumbup:.... but really slowly...
I've a prefetch of kof 2003 but when I use convertneo for the rom of kof 2003, the prefetech is not convert with the rom
How to do for that the prefetch be took into account in the conversion ?
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But I'm pretty sure stuff like this isn't going to help - the College published the questions to be used at interview in advance this year (although I'm informed that they didn't actually explicitly tell the candidates this) and I'm reproducing the beginning of the 'simulated patient scenario':
You are an F2 doctor on an orthopaedic ward. Jan Smith has been admitted to hospital this morning as a day case for a knee arthroscopy to be done under general anaesthetic...Presumably recruitment for core medical training included the scenario:
Imagine you are a consultant neurosurgeon...Maybe this is some misguided attempt to be 'fair' to those with no clinical experience of psychiatry but I'm reliably informed that locally there are more F2 jobs in psychiatry than there are in orthopaedics. Maybe the College is afraid to even mention psychiatry in their application - perhaps they think no one applying actually has any interest in psychiatry so there would be no point starting a scenario with:
You are a CT1 doctor in psychiatry...
This is not encouraging - I'm also told the psychiatrists on the interview panels had some problems following the ensuing discussions about the management of anaesthetic risks. Do these people have any idea what they are doing?