Indianapolis Web Design Blog

Interesting data from W3C Schools and and commentary from Douglas Karr over at the Marketing Technology Blog.
Check it out, its worth a read.

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The Art Institute of Indianapolis says it is adding a bachelor’s degree for media arts and animation. This is the seventh degree program the school has added in the past 18 months. The program will prepare students for careers as animation artists, special effects artists and broadcast graphics designers.
The Media Arts & Animation program prepares [...]

Only once a year can you find such a group of work in Indianapolis. The second Annual SubSurface gallery opening will feature recent work from returning artists as well as new. Participants are from cities including Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City MO and Indianapolis.The range of styles, techniques, media and subject matter are as varied as [...]

There is nothing like a splash of humor to start off one’s day… but this is real, so I’m not sure it qualifies.
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes some real gem of design utopia, a pinnacle of thought and creativity that inspires me to stay in business in hopes of achieving design [...]

Insightful article by Jeff Croft, in which he muses “if the reason CSS’ version number has moved exactly one decimal point in almost a decade is, at least in part, that there are no designers on the W3C team.”
1. I didn’t find a single name I recognize as a top web designer or developer.
2. I [...]

I am subscribed to the AIGA blog, but like the AIGA itself, it’s not usually meaningful enough to get me to head over and actually read the thing. The latest post caught my eye however: Why Double the Number of AIGA Members? by Richard Grefé, the executive director of AIGA.
In the post, Richard talks [...]

Today I ran across a web designer blog supporting the idea to stop using IE hacks, to just let the browser bugs creep to the visible surface of every IE 6 user out in the web.
According to the author:
Let’s admit it, we all hate Internet Explorer 6. About 80% of our CSS debug time are [...]

The latest graffiti work by an Indianapolis artist and friend of mine, Dan Thomson. The “FAB Fairy Tale” can be seen at the former Missing Link Records store in Broad Ripple, and depicts the colorful, but raw emotion found in every child’s dreams. Well, maybe. I just made that last bit up.
You really should check [...]

A good read about some of the bad things that can go wrong with hiring a shady “web designer.”
In 2005, Genma Stringer Holmes, founder of Holmes Pest Control in Nashville, hired a Web designer she’d met through her church. She wanted him to create two Web sites to boost sales for her 11-employee, $500,000 company. [...]