Hello, My name is JAYME.

A new client approached me to do a slicing job last week. We exchanged several emails as usual with a new client - telling them how the process will work. I setup the project in basecamp and got everything ready to go then fired off an email to him explaining that we would set an ETA for the project completion. As a closing remark I told him, “We appreciate the business bud”. About 30 minutes later he fired back an email, “bud, WTF is that!?!? why did you call me that? I HATE that. My name isn’t sufficient? geez”. Can we say “red flag”? I replied with, “Good god almighty, it wasn’t meant to offend anyone. It’s like “man, pal, friend” etc. But I’ll be sure to call you Bob… sheesh”. He replied, “whatever. sheesh is right”.

After the shock of it all I told him he could keep his project because I wanted no part of it. He said he wondered how he was going to get out of it. In hindsight, I’d say the “WTF” was a tad more unprofessional than “bud”. A lesson was learned. I will no longer use any slang or terms of endearment with anyone I do work for. Needless to say, I was happy to let this psycho off the hook.

Joe and I created a site this year called flipmydesign.com. It really never took off and I have no idea why. The site has a Google page rank of 4 and we don’t even use rel=”nofollow” attribute on the designers’ urls. I cannot understand why designers won’t utilize a design showcase to get a good solid backlink? If you have a site that you’ve flipped, by all means add it. It’d be a great link and most of all it’s free!

I get this question asked repeatedly and I always find myself typing everything out - explaining the process on how a blog is brought to life. It’s a more involved process than most would think, especially when a client wants extreme customizations. Instead of paraphrasing and regurgitating the same info, please take a moment to read Pearsonified.com’s article. My quotes will typically fall within the same price range.

Problem - I’m floating a div left or right and trying to make it span 100%. It just expands to the width of the text inside the div and not across the width of the container that surrounds it. It only does this in IE7.

Solution - add overflow:auto;