Mark Poppen

I was working on a little project for a while called RotateCanvas. When I bought the domain I wanted to use it as a design blog. That worked out for a while, but I found out that writing tutorials were very time-consuming, so I kind of lost interest for a while. I had a spark of insanity (awesome DVD by the way), and I started jotting down some ideas for a new purpose for the domain.

I came up with a digital design galery, so not just for websites built with CSS. You can also add logo’s you’ve created for example. I also wanted to add comments in to help give the designer some pointers of where the design could be better, or just an “I love this design” works too.
Also I wanted a little competition in it. Not to win prizes, but just for kicks, so I added a rating/top10 to it.

Anyway, after a lot of tweaks (and I’m not done yet), RotateCanvas.com went live, and so far, a bunch of great designers added their designs already.

If you have a design online somewhere, please DO send it in, and I’ll put it up.

Gotta love it:

WYSIWTF

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You know, Internet Explorer 6, that old piece of shit browser that some people still use? The browser that’s always a pain in the ass when you’ve finished your design, to find out it doesn’t work in IE6? Yes, That one. We’re going to kill it. Join the IE6 DeathMarch and show you’re done with IE6.

Why should we still design around IE6 when there’s a bog load of alternatives? IE7 and IE8 are up for download, Firefox is better, and Chrome is faster and Safari is cross platform. Unless you charge your client extra for working around IE6, it’s just costing us, as designers, money.

So: Join the DeathMarch and start creating conditionals for IE6 telling people to upgrade their browser!

Seriously, do!
Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don’t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I’m not the only one
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.

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