Philadelphia Freelance Web Designer: MHunt Design

This Wednesday I will be driving down to DC with my co-workers at DLC Solutions to attend the 2009 DrupalCon. Three days of sessions. March 4th through the 7th. Its going to be great.

What Wednesday looks like for me:

• Advanced Theming Techniques
• Typography and Layout on the Web ( This looks like a crash course for beginners, but we will see)
• jQuery UI
• SEO & Drupal: Search Engine Optimization Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

My attendee profile: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/mhunt

Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/mhuntdesign

Today, it was announced that there has been a serious security flaw in IE7. As you all know IE has always has issues with security. Not to mention its lack of css support.

Found first on Slash Dot:

Here is another article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
and another http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Hackers-Compromise-Legit-Web-Sites-to-Target-Microsoft-IE-Flaw/

A list of awesome browsers that are safe:

• Firefox3
• Safari
• Google’s Chrome

ICANN voted to allow custom TLD’s ( Top-level Domains). Vista is unrelated, but you get the picture. This happened back in June. Looks like they could cost anywhere from $50,000+ or $100,000+ . Now anyone with enough money and resources can create their own custom domain extension. You can see where this can get very chaotic especially for company branding. This forces companies to register these before cyber-squatters get to them. I just don’t know about this. It’s not like an average person can afford these.

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A List Apart Annual Survey

A List Apart is conducting its annual survey for web professionals. It’s about 38 questions long. If you care about the checking the results out, take the survey.

As many of you may have heard, Microsoft has been hard at work trying to give what the web designers and developers have been asking for; a standards compliant browser. It looks like IE8 is going to be released sooner than anyone has expected. A lot of us are excited about this. I found out recently that Microsoft has released a beta version for web designers and developers to test out. Visit the Internet explorer 8 beta download page.