It’s no secret that I, along with every other web designer, absolutely despise Internet Explorer.  The real problem for many years has been Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)  due to it’s lack of anything useful.  Microsoft is notorious for putting out terrible products including their archaic web browsing platform.  We’ve spent countless hours cursing it’s name and having to write special code and fixes in order for our websites to even look somewhat normal in the browser.  Over the past couple of years, some have just been fed up with it and said enough-is-enough.

Luckily for us, the mothership Google recently decided to stop supporting IE6.  With one press release, the entire web community took a giant sigh of relief.  Google really sets the bar when it comes to web trends and that means if Google doesn’t support it, then I won’t either.  In fact, I was mid-code on my IE6 style sheet for this site when the announcement came and I said “screw it!” and just abandoned it.  As a result, if you look at my site in IE 6 it won’t work all that well.  But then again, if you are using IE 6 then you probably shouldn’t be using the internet anyway!

Now all kinds of celebratory websites have been popping up, my favorite of which is iefuneral.com .  So with no sadness in anyway way, shape, or form, do I say good riddance to you IE 6.  Now we just need to get rid of 7 and 8!

Well, I’m not just a Creative Director, I’m also an:  Art Director, User Interface Specialist, Designer, Programmer, Brand Developer, I really strive to be a jack of all trades.  

What is the point of this post?  It’s more of a test than anything else.  I’ve been using Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools to understand what keywords are driving traffic to my site.  This post is solely for SEO purposes to see if any of these keywords hit.

I’m finding that the blog has the best page rankings for my site on Google.  Take the Color Munki post on October 3rd.  According to Google, when Color Munki is searched my site comes up 2nd in page rank.  I find this extremely interesting.  So right now, I’m just exploring keywords in my blog to gain exposure for my site.

Ultimately, the goal of this website is to further my professional career.  I’m expecting Steve Jobs to contact me any day now to inform me I’ve been selected to replace him at Apple.  A kid can dream can’t he?

Everyone is familiar with Google Earth and Google Maps, but not everyone completely understands the full potential of these applications.  Google has recently released their Google Earth API which brings Google Earth into your web browser.

Of course, it hasn’t been released for Mac browsers yet, but they promise it’s coming.  I have been experimenting with the API since it’s release and let me tell you, it’s awesome.  Check out this video for it…