CSS techniques I use all the time

I’m always learning new things with CSS. It’s interesting because I’ve thought of myself as a CSS expert for a while now (I’ll challenge anyone to a competition, seriously) but I still keep learning and improving. I’ve come across some techniques lately that are…

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Sep 27, 2006

Teaching Web Design, part 5

Opportunity of a lifetime: when my professor offered me the opportunity to teach today’s lecture, I couldn’t pass it up.

It was right around the second week of classes that my professor asked me to prepare & teach today’s lecture: Visual Design 3…

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Oct 8, 2007

Web 3.0 I$ About Money

I have to extend a huge thanks to Tim O’Reilly for weighing in on the recent hype generated by some business heads around the term “web 3.0” in their attempt to start the next meme and subsequently take credit for it. You can read his entire rundown here: Today’s Web 3.0 Nonsense…

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Nov 9, 2007

PHP techniques I use all the time

Back in February, I was writing CSS every day and I decided to share some of the CSS techniques that I always use. Lately I’ve been writing more PHP than anything else and I’ve found myself using some very useful techniques all the time.

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Sep 9, 2006

Teaching Web Design, part 2

This past week, the flood gates opened: intro to CSS. Not CS:S or CSS, but CSS… the one I really like. We knew it would be tough. Introducing a fresh technology to students who know very little about computer science and still think far too visually when it comes to websites is…

Christian Montoya in Christian Montoya

Aug 22, 2007

My advice to anyone planning to become a web developer

A year ago I was mostly convinced that I would never have a job in the industry as a web developer. I was certain that I would always be a web hobbyist and I was O.K. with that. It wasn’t until this past May, in my post entitled “No…

Christian Montoya in Christian Montoya

Jul 17, 2006

My dream job

I’m glad I’ve had my 3 internship experiences, since they have shown me the things I don’t want to do in life. The first summer at Lockheed Martin showed me I don’t ever want to work in the defense industry. The second summer at General Electric showed me I don’t ever want to work in business-to-business…