“Photography is an amazing way to learn about focus. This is because the very act of viewing life through the lens of a camera can help us develop a truly empowering skill. We call that skil… Read More >

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Firefox browser mock-up Photoshop file. The Photoshop file is layered and all text is editable. There is also a layer specifically for secure and insecure URLs in the Firefox browser mock-up Photoshop file.

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Typography Framework is updated to version 1.1. This Typography Framework has h1 to h6, paragraph, blockquote, forms, table, lists, and definitions created for you already. Happy coding.

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The business of web design is filled with all sorts of characters and personalities. Some of those personalities are strong or weak. This post gets theoretical to propose an idea on how I came to understand the who of web design.

I consult for companies. And within these companies there are many people. There are all sorts of people. The challenge for me is categorizing people on the org chart to better leverage strengths and mitigate weaknesses for their benefit.

How? Well, I thought to myself what types of people do I deal with? Do they have similarities or are they completely different to each other from a business perspective?

While it is true we are all different and wonderfully created and the values from business to business are as individual as a fingerprint, there is overlap in the types of people I deal with.

My ideas about this and using a classification system to help org businesses is mine alone and you certainly do not have to agree. I think though if you try this when you are consulting or try this within your own org it may very well help you leverage the positive over the negative forces in your business.

The Rules

Here’s the theory. Every business person has 2 sides to whatever degree. The sides are 1. Thinker and 2. Tinker. The varying degrees will be Big and Little. Those are my ground rules for this theory of sorts. So every person is a Thinker and a Tinker, but to what degree?

Types of Persons Defined

• Big Thinker
  My first person is a Thinker to a Big degree. Big Thinker is a person that can master high level ideas and is intellectually flexible. He or she is a person that can see horizon issues and master the eagle eye view of a business. This person is a visionary.
• Little Thinker
  My second person is a person not concerned with strategy or concepts leading towards goals and is not flexible, but has a definite supporting role.
• Big Tinker
  This person has a mastership of implementation and subject matter expertise that is admirable within the org.
• Little Tinker
  The last type of person does not know how to implement granular tasks and rather than an expert plays a supporting role.

So to review and as an example, I have a client that is a Big Thinker and a Big Tinker. He is not only able to create strategy and visioneer, but is also able to get granular or down to the code level to implement exactly what it is he would like to accomplish. This type of person is the most rare while the Little Thinker and Little Tinker the most common personality type.

We can’t be perfect or good at everything, this post can help businesses identify who should do what and why. This also is not a judgement on the value of any persons. It’s an imperfect effort to classify business folks for our mutual benefit.

Now the key is getting the Bigs and Littles working at the right time and place, but that’s another post.

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Apple Inc. plans to boost its employee count by 46 percent to 23,400 in its hometown of Cupertino, California, paying out .9 billion in annual wages by the time a massive new headquarters is completed in 2016. Read More

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You have no doubt heard about it — the latest WordPress security scare has been publicized everywhere from the BBC, to NBC, to Technorati. A giant botnet made up of “tens of thousands” of computers has attacked an enormous number of vulnerable WordPress websites.

This comes on the back of other worrying recent news (such as the major security vulnerability present in two popular caching plugins) and more historical events (such as the TimThumb saga). It would seem that WordPress has endured its fair share of high profile security scares over the past few years. More >

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Therese Larsson: I am a freelance illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden, specialising
in character design and realism. I started out as a traditional artist
working in oils, pastels and aquarelle, but as I went professional 5
years ago I made the transition into digital. Check Therese’s port

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Oklahoma needs our support.

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Over the last couple of days, we’ve had so many amazing friends from all over the world email, call, text, chat, DM, tweet, Facebook, and post messages on our forum sending their love, thoughts and prayers for us and those affected by the recent tornadoes here in Oklahoma and just wanted to give you an update on us and how you can help.

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