Web Design and Development

For the last week I have been dealing with the biggest headache. My domain registrar Registerfly has always sucked. The only reason I stayed with it was the fact I had started using them when I first got into the web. I accumulated so many domains that I didn’t want to spend the money to transfer.

I am changing host this last week and wanted to transfer my domain names as well. It turns out that Registerfly has become the worst domain registrar ever. First they loose their ICANN accreditation, since then the owner, Kevin Medina has decided to take control of people domains by deleting them, not unlocking them for transfer and they are currently under a class action lawsuit. I knew I should of just transferred back in January…

I don’t even know if I will have this domain anymore. It says that the transfer has initiated but who knows if it will work. Two of my other domains are unlocked in the Registerfly control panel but I got errors from my new registrar, saying they are locked. Of course Registerfly isn’t responding to the support tickets and emails, though I expected this because its the main problem people are having.

Besides that, I have moved to a great new host, Media Temple. I have seen so much about these guys on other blogs, of which I highly respect. I figured I would give them a go and I am truly happy. I think everyone should check out their great hosting, its different then any other hosting I have seen in the past. I got the Grid Server hosting, which offers the following

• 100 GBs of premium storage
• 1 TB of short-path bandwidth
• Host up to 100 individual sites
• 1000 email accounts
• 64 MB Ruby/Mongrel container
• Money Back Guarantee

All for just $20 a month, also I would say its the best control panel I have used. I will keep you guys updated with the experience I have with them in the future.

What happened to the design?

To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the

Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

I decided to go a little early since I have to work tommorrow and none of those plugins would work for my whole site. Plus its April 5th some places

I noticed today, one of the recent sites I worked on has launched. Enspire Dental an Ann Arbor based provider of cosmetic and comprehensive dentistry. My responsibilities were the XHTML/CSS templates and a good portion of the pages. I got the chance to do some cool image replacement for the header area, which is one giant graphic including the logo and navigation, while keeping all the navigation text inside the code as an unordered list. Great for Accessibility and great For SEO.

It was a beautifully designed site to play around with and gave me the chance to work once again with the great people over at QLTD.

This year I will be participating in CSS Naked Day, where I will disable my stylesheet for you to view my content in its purist form.

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your .

I figured it would be fun for a day