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by mnicole 14y ago
Yay! Clean code that makes sense to those just learning CSS (as opposed to CSSHat just that spits garble at you for $30) and a beautiful introduction. Love that it's free and Windows-compatible too. Interested in seeing how it compares to t
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by mnicole 14y ago
Thanks for responding, Andy :) Our observations of what it is right now might be aligned, but I think we differ somewhere when it comes to their knowing what the site is and isn't. Initially it was sold as a place for top tier designers to
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by mnicole 14y ago
Only allows me the ability to create two lists for free? I'm not going to pay for a service that can be replaced by Post-Its and the bevy of other services/apps that do the same thing. Inability to sync lists with other users is another rea
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by mnicole 14y ago
This. And if they want to learn the what's and why's and get to the guts of it, they'll find a way outside of that UI as I'm sure that's how we all got to where we are in web, because we care and we're curious and neither of those traits ar
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by mnicole 14y ago
So I disagree with this entirely and it's part of the reason I add "suggestions welcome" to most of my shots, because I want that feedback and I wouldn't post otherwise. There are a lot of really great discussions in posts by more "popula
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by mnicole 14y ago
At the same time, that's what makes me wonder if it is legitimate or just stock photography. I know that it isn't, but from a first-timer's perspective, it almost seems "too good to be true."
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by mnicole 14y ago
Yikes, it looks more like a Gilt/Fab site than something I'd feel comfortable renting my place through. Resizing is a disaster, which is weird because this site would be easy to media query up.
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by mnicole 14y ago
Yeah, I'm still trying to find the good dev subreddits. You get downvoted in /r/webdesign over some really pathetic crap but it seems to be the most active - any suggestions?
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by mnicole 14y ago
The same way politics works, eh?
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by mnicole 14y ago
I guess half-bad is subjective. I don't feel like a site that allows such a vast array of decent information vs. downright terrible/wrong is worth my time trying to decipher between the two. I know what I read on A List Apart is quality mat
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by mnicole 14y ago
Serious question; all of these tutorial sites.. are any of them a reliable source for web dev or are they just another Smashing Magazine where people get paid to write about things they don't understand?
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by mnicole 14y ago
Wish this was its own comment and was upvoted to the top. I stopped going to UXMovement after the author continually attacked visitors in the comments section that questioned his posts to the point of calling them assholes and idiots. He se
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by mnicole 14y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, every time I see the obligatory "You should follow me on Twitter" at the end of every blog post or Dribbble submission, the last thing I want to do is follow that person on Twitter. Commanding someone
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by mnicole 14y ago
We've been using it at our company since sometime around September with anywhere from 80-100 employees. Despite my efforts to get sales staff engaged in the product, they haven't picked it up because it isn't intuitive enough nor does it wo
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by mnicole 14y ago
I get a little tired of seeing people override their web form elements this way because they should only be used for gestural interfaces, and even then it can be annoying. Trying to translate it to web just causes confusion for the user --
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by mnicole 14y ago
Note: Need to clear up that references to CodeAcademy in this post refer to what is actually Codecademy.
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by mnicole 14y ago
If a service does it right, it is work. No one's asking for a free pass, they're just asking that the content is manageable for the audience they're trying to cater to.
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by mnicole 14y ago
I had a reply written out yesterday about what's generational decay vs. the evolution of learning (complete with everyone's second-favorite Einstein quote) but at the end of the day, how someone wants to learn is going to resonate with them
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by mnicole 14y ago
This is why I love HN. I'll be in touch!
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by mnicole 14y ago
I might be in a different boat than many of my peers (and for this reason I wish HN had more designers), as I've started designing almost exclusively in the browser outside of some initial wireframing on paper, so my assets are CSS and not
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by mnicole 14y ago
Thank you for your response, Roshan. Bloc.io sounds like what I'm ultimately going to need to do. I'd been considering just taking a course locally but had reservations about finding something that fit my schedule and was taught by someon
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by mnicole 14y ago
I hadn't heard of this, are you the Paul that is associated with it?
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by mnicole 14y ago
Anecdotes vs. anecdotes. As a paying customer and someone that cares deeply about education and user experience, I'm well within my rights to complain about issues I'm not the only one dealing with.
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by mnicole 14y ago
So I'm an actively paying user of CodeSchool and Treehouse and tried out CodeAcademy a few weeks ago after being unfulfilled by it a few months prior. I'm a designer by trade and a visual learner by heart and none of these services have hel
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by mnicole 14y ago
I go to HN because it isn't just a random news site with laypeople commenting on tech they don't understand; it's an aggregated news site with commentary from the exact people I want that commentary from. I've found myself not bothering to
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by mnicole 14y ago
My problem with the kudos button is I had no idea the first time I was doing it that I was rating something. Secondly, it's at the top of a post so in order to validate it - presumably after reading it - I need to scroll back up and keep
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by mnicole 14y ago
Can someone with more experience in CSS optimization take a look at some of the code output and see if utilizing something like CSSHat actually worths? Looking at it is a bit of an eyesore, but I can't discern whether or not it would really
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by mnicole 14y ago
Grandfathered users have been burned many, many times before.
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Of course. Knowing there's someone there curating quality stuff is a huge plus, but having a curator that is truly knowledgeable in the industry is preferred. I actually wrote an email to the fine folks at Behance letting them know that the
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by mnicole 14y ago
This. I didn't know what Olark was until I clicked on the link here, then I saw that all-too-familiar box that I try to avoid out of the corner of my eye. It's great that people are getting real feedback and having conversations with their

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