Marty Ferinni
Articles by Marty Ferinni
By Marty Ferinni on Apr 10, 2009 in Loud Dog Projects, Web Design, Web Engineering
When building websites, things like background gradients, tabs, and buttons often must be extracted from the design file and engineered in their own right in order to work correctly. In this article, Marty explains how to prepare your graphics file to make this easier.
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By Marty Ferinni on in Tutorials, Web Design, Web Engineering
It’s often more efficient to use CSS and a customized graphic rather than javascript for common effects like button rollovers. Here, we break down how to design and build them.
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By Marty Ferinni on Feb 25, 2009 in Loud Dog News, Loud Dog Projects, Web Design, Web Engineering
Once again, yesterday evening the strains of the sublime, transcendent keyboard riff of the “The Final Countdown” could be heard in the Loud Dog office as we officially launched the ummm… re-launch of the the Loud Dog website. Now with new, improved portfolio!
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By Marty Ferinni on Feb 9, 2009 in Brand and Identity Design, Business Strategy, Loud Dog News
Behold! Loud Dog now has a LinkedIn Company page! Is this good? What the heck is LinkedIn anyhow? Why should you care?
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By Marty Ferinni on in Loud Dog Culture
At Loud Dog, the web is our business and recently we decided to take a closer look at how we appear online.
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By Marty Ferinni on Nov 14, 2008 in Brand and Identity Design, Web Design
Hell froze over the other day. Well, momentarily anyway. Steve Ballmer, in an apparent moment of befuddlement and rare “truthiness” seems to have opened the door a crack to the possibility that there’s something about open source that may actually not be a commie pinko plot.
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By Marty Ferinni on in Brand and Identity Design, Web Design
Hell froze over the other day. Well, momentarily anyway. Steve Ballmer, in an apparent moment of befuddlement and rare “truthiness” seems to have opened the door a crack to the possibility that there’s something about open source that may actually not be a commie pinko plot.
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By Marty Ferinni on Aug 4, 2008 in Brand and Identity Design, Web Design, Web Engineering
What are favicons? Why should you use them? How do you make them? Where do they go? What is the meaning of life? Read on, as I gamely tackle these vexing questions. Well, the last one I can answer now. It is of course, forty two.
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By Marty Ferinni on Jun 19, 2008 in Brand and Identity Design, Web Design
By now, surely everyone with an interweb connection has taken note of the stark contrast between the Obama and MacCain campaign’s marketing savvy or complete lack thereof – “let’s go with this lovely lime green backdrop, it really brings out your eyes!”.
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