Just got the keys to our first real (commercial) office in Manhattan Beach! This is the view looking west. You can kind of see the ocean in the distance. :)
Jon and I are in La Jolla for the day. We had lunch at George’s with our college buddy, Jeff. It’s a nice day to not be stuck in the office! Orders seem to be steadily increasing for AviatorTees.com and EngineerClothing.com, but we are focusing all of our energy on finishing the first version of HighSchoolClothing.com. Once we finish, you will all be the first to know!
Tim and I bought thist-shirt folder as few years ago after walking past an “As Seen on TV” store in Solvang, California. This plastic contraption is one of our coolest gadgets. Not only does the t-shirt folder make professional folds, but the contraption also creates folds that fit perfectly inside our shipping packages. It is AWESOME and we highly recommend it to anyone in need of folding help.
Jon
IE Sucks and HighSchoolClothing.com UPDATE
Today, Tim and I reviewed an issue that he came across while programming in jQuery. It was an issue concerning browser compatibility. For those of you that are not familiar with web development, browser compatibility means that our website code should work in every browser. We’ve experienced getting scripts to run on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, but not on IE, and then having to write workarounds to please IE. When we do have a browser compatibility problem with IE, it is usually because of some HTML/CSS code that IE didn’t like, but today we encountered our first JavaScript browser compatibility problem with IE6/7. Bummer…
Our message to IE users as developers: “If you have IE6, please upgrade to IE8. If you have IE7, please upgrade to IE8. If you don’t upgrade, then you should not be allowed to use the internet.” All the books that we’ve read have encouraged developers to use the progressive enhancement method to create their code. This means that as a developer, your code should be accommodated on each and every browser including the “old skool” ones. This also means that your website will look better in some browsers than in others. We get it, and we’ve been nice to IE for a long time, but as developers, we cannot wait until IE6/7 becomes obsolete.
HighSchoolClothing.com UPDATE: We wanted to complete the site by the beginning of April but that did not happen. We were stalled because of programming bugs, vacations, babies, and because we decided to add more features that weren’t in our original plan. The good news is that we’ve exited the “learning how to do things” phase and everything is coming together slowly and nicely.
Jon
Here are some of the shirts that we recently made for our AviatorTees.com and EngineerClothing.com customers. We haven’t had time to update or really perform any type of effective SEO on these sites but fortunately these two sites have kept us busy with orders when we’re not coding HighSchoolClothing.com.
Our new HighSchoolClothing.com logo.
Just sold, made, and shipped this shirt out. You can find it here on our engineer t-shirt website.
HighSchoolClothing.com Development Begins
Today, we start the HighSchoolClothing.com development project. All we have to do is use these languages and tools to make the site: HTML Cinco, CSS3/2.1, Javascript, jQuery, jQueryUI, AJAX, PHP, SQL, AI, FW, PS, DW, and Cutstudio. And we also have to integrate and control the insertion of thousands of vectorized artwork images. … No sweat huh? Ha. I must say though, this project definitely requires more thinking than I ever did when I designed commercial airplanes and fighter jets.
Jon
Zappos Gets Hacked
Dayum…
