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Creating complex HTML email signatures in Mail.app for Mac OSX Mountain Lion
July 30, 2012 6 commentsApple released it's latest desktop and server operating system in July 2012 called OSX Mountain Lion. Apple has never made it easy to include a complex HTML email signature, especially ones that include a remote image, such as your company logo or your big smiley mug shot. Today, we're...
Rdio vs. Spotify Streaming Music Services Compared
July 9, 2012 7 commentsWorking here at Blue Coast Web where music is constantly being flowed through either headphones, or a pair of Technics floor standing speakers, I have come to the sad realization that my iTunes library just isn't enough anymore. My personal iTunes library consists of 80+gb worth of music collected...
Dropbox and You
September 19, 2011 9 commentsDropbox over the years has been an indispensable tool in not only my web design/developer super-hero tool belt, but also in my off-time. If you haven't heard of Dropbox, or are new to it, we'll show you how this tool from the Internet Gods will "handy-fy" your...
Creating complex HTML email signatures in Mail.app for Mac OSX Lion
September 15, 2011 66 commentsUpdate: Mountain Lion users, please see an updated blog post here regarding email signatures. Apple released it's desktop and server operating system in July 2011 called OSX Lion. With this new release came a new version 5 of the native email client, Mail.app, which was heavily influenced by it'...
Beyond the Favicon
May 19, 2011 9 commentsWe're all pretty familiar with the Favicon... that little 16x16 pixel site-specifc image that shows up in your browser or tab title. They're useful when scanning a large number of open tabs to recognize sites, and are an easy way to promote your brand's experience when a...
Pros and Cons for Using ExpressionEngine’s Default Stylesheet Parser
May 9, 2011 13 commentsIf you reference the official User Guide while building an ExpressionEngine site, you will probably end up using the {stylesheet} tag to include a reference to your CSS file in the page head. The tag functions very similar to the {path} include variable, but EE recommends not using {path}...
Redirect to 404 When ExpressionEngine Entry has “Closed” Status
May 5, 2011 14 commentsHere's something interesting about ExpressionEngine's treatment of "Closed" entries: When an entry is set to the "Closed" status and you manually access the URL, you simply get your template rendered with no content in your {exp:channel:entries} tag. Why wouldn't you want to have a 404 page...
call to action (CTA)
[Noun]an item on the page that calls for user action. Usually a big bright button (eg. "Click here to learn more").
SEO
[Noun]An acronym for "search engine optimization"
Creating complex HTML email signatures in Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac
April 30, 2011 38 commentsMicrosoft released it's latest office suite in September of 2010, which in my opinion is a huge leap forward in terms of usability and responsiveness from earlier versions available for the Mac. Included in the office suite is Outlook 2011, a step up from the monstrosity known as Entourage, which...
WYSIWYG
[Noun]An acronym for "what you see is what you get"
remote images
[Noun]Images that are hosted on a server which are viewable to the public. Example, www.bluecoastweb.com/images/gra-sig_bcwlogo.gif
Planning Ahead with your ExpressionEngine Templates
April 30, 2011 11 commentsCreating building-blocks of elements can save time and headaches later. When first learning ExpressionEngine, the complete "ground-up" functionality of the template system can be daunting to say the least. What is the best way to organize a site you're building? A lot of websites have unique elements in certain...
URLs
[Noun]
Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. It is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
Or in other words, the stuff that's part of the "www.somethinghere.com/thisismylink.html"
domain name
[Noun]The words that come after www.
hyperlink
[Noun]A link from a hypertext file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen.
browser
[Noun]A computer program with a graphical user interface for displaying HTML files, used to navigate the World Wide Web : a Web browser.