Category Archives: Design
Art from limitation: Graphic Design 101
Back in college at MCAD I was taking a Graphic Design 101 course. For all class periods we had one assignment: make a design using the defined elements. Each week we would spend the 60 minute class reviewing everyone’s creations. That’s it. No text, no lectures, no direction. On 8.5″ x 11″ white paper with [...]
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Art from limitation: OSX vs. Vista
I grew up on Apple products, I went to art school, I make design and build furniture in my garage, my notebook is a sketchpad. I would consider myself a design person. I left my last Mac in 1996, it was a Quadra 800 AV. I have been working in Windows since then. Tightrope starting [...]
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Art from limitation: Introduction
I have ben trying to get into blogging for a few months. It has been hard for me to find what to write about. I can write about Tightrope’s product releases, tricks in our software, or general reactions to things that I run into. That hasn’t motivated me. I needed a subject that I could [...]
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In review: Proud new Macbook Air owner
So, after *months* of deliberation I finally pulled the trigger on a Macbook Air. I previously had a Dell Latitude 840 15″; a fast, modern, all business laptop. It served me well for many months, especially when I didn’t have a desktop machine. It was a fine desktop machine. After I got my new desktop [...]
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Why TRMS.COM Doesn’t Do IE 6
We launched our new web site earlier this month. Amber and JR worked like animals to do it, setting an impossibly tight deadline. In the end, they pretty much hit their target, but some things had to be dropped. The most notable amongst the casualties? Support for Internet Explorer 6. How could a company that [...]
TRMS Website!
January 2008 and the website is finally up and running! (Enjoy) I started working for Tightrope April 1st, 2007 and began re-vamping the website on day one.(Approx. 275 days ago) Design after design we finally came to an agreement. So off it went to Andy (initially he was in charge of turning the design into [...]
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Free Backgrounds
Here are some simple solid colored backgrounds and color gradient backgrounds. To automatically upload them into your Carousel click on one of the links below (this will download the zip file to your desktop). From the Carousel main menu choose media, add media package (located in the zone tab), browse, locate and upload the zip [...]
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TRMS Desktop Wallpaper
More TRMS wallpaper to come… Sizes: 1280×720
POSH Web Design
There’s yet another technology buzzword floating around the internet these days: POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML). It rather nicely encapsulates the idea of writing HTML that is valid, well-structured, semantic, and accessible, all into a cute little acronym. Over the past couple of weeks, Amber and I have taken on the task of redesigning the [...]
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Art from limitation: Ruby on rails