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Blue Sphere Studios is the online portfolio and journal of web designer and developer, Tim Malabuyo, coding night and day out of sunny Scotts Valley, California. We're a small operation that partners with other talented web professionals to create beautifully designed websites.
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I only spent a short 9 months at McAfee as a contractor with the Web User Interface team, but I gelled so well with the incredible people there, that I can easily call that time in my life the most fun I’ve ever had at work. more…
As you may noticed, the site has undergone yet another change. It’s been a couple of years since the last iteration, and I’ve used some of the Prototype and Ajax techniques that I learned during my short year and a half building web apps at FileMaker. more…
Just finished working with Sevenwire and Clear in coding a couple of designs for two talented Country recording artists, Ashton Shepherd and Julianne Hough.
Unlike the author of this blog, Chesney at least writes in her blog on a regular basis, so she should have a nicer-looking site. She gave me a rough idea of what she wanted, and I worked on it off and on in my spare time. more…
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MultiFireFox, a very useful for us web developers who need to test in different versions.
I’ve been using the betas and RCs for a while now and it’s great. Pick it up while you can…the servers were down for a while earlier.
A great article on how to fix the color variation that happens when you “Save for Web” in Photoshop.
The CSS guy found Google’s technique for a 1-pixel, rounded corners without images using nested tags. I’m torn. While I really like nice-looking, anti-aliased rounded corners, this technique does take away the burden of have to create those images if you need something simple that looks nicer than straight-edged boxes. Then again, I also don’t like having to create extraneous tags…
