Sean Rice

This is what my site looks like in the form of a word cloud (make your own at wordle.net).  I suppose I look like a Microsoft junkie at the moment… Let me assure you that this is not the case. I’m a firm believer in the right tool for the right job. That said, most [...]

As of today, I’ve got two sites that use Silverlight for animation live. I think that’s two more than most other web designers have. These recent launches have me thinking that I really like my job. I don’t think most web designers have the opportunity to design web sites about dinosaurs, rising tides, secret WWII [...]

I’ve been working on a project that utilizes Microsoft’s Silverlight technology for the past month or so. I’ve been going back and forth about whether I can recommend it to anyone or not. The jury’s still out, but I can tell you that it keeps getting better. Problems with Silverlight Silverlight is currently in version [...]

I’ve had to do some pretty crazy things with CSS and HTML and Javascript lately. I could go into detail, but suffice it to say that we’ve got one browser that hardly ever behaves properly (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer 6!) and a few more that, while they have better rendering etiquette, still have the occasional disagreement with exactly how to follow the rules.

What should we, as designers, do in response to naughty internet browsers?

Okay, so I’m just getting used to this whole “blogosphere” thing myself. I’ve set up blogs before, but now I’m more interested in driving traffic to my site so people can see my portfolio, etc.  The good news is that WordPress makes this pretty easy for you. My RSS feed was set up from the get-go. Awesome. [...]

Today, at about 10, I threw the switch on the Alberta SuperGraphic site. Awesome! I always get pretty excited when I get to see one of the things I designed finally go live.  Good times!

This is what we call a “Soft Launch” of a web site. I still have many many things to update on this site… look for more stuff to come soon!