Stupid Sucks!

I wrote this tutorial for net.tutsplus.com

We live in a world where people are increasingly expecting more and faster speeds. In fractions of a second, your website can lose valuable visitors and in turn, money. Although most people think CDNs are for the “big dogs”, they’re actually super cheap and incredibly easy to use these days.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to setup and use Amazon’s Web Services S3 and CloudFront to decrease website load time as well as show the performance differences.

Continue reading at http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/general/supercharge-website-performance-with-aws-s3-and-cloudfront/

I wrote this article for ThemeForest.net

An often overlooked aspect of web design, by those just starting out, is typography. In fact, web designers that have been around for a couple years even have a tendency to overlook and undervalue the power of typography. Don’t be mistaken though, it’s one of the most powerful tools web designers have.

In this article, we’ll review ten web typography tips that will bring your typographic design skills to the next level.

Continue reading at http://blog.themeforest.net/resources/10-typography-tips-for-web-designers/

Having worked at newspapers I have experienced countless frustrations when dealing with sales people. I came across this video that was hilarious and yet so true. You can substitute other jobs in place of the web dude as well.

Sometimes I seriously wonder about the sanity of sales people (and if they have a soul). Many people argue that sales is a hard job and that you have to be very good at it to succeed. My 2 cents is that sales people are not good at what they do, they are just the only people left who are willing to do it. Everyone else was smart enough to go get better jobs. read more…