Masuga Design, LLC

I’m working on a project and I thought I found a great way to do a shipping estimate form without using the default pop-up window by using the SubModal window script found at gabrito.com. This particular window works by loading the content into an iframe – which, in this case was the solution I was looking for. I’m not a big fan of iFrames, but hey, sometimes you do what you gotta do. I was working along with it and everything was going fine until I tried using it with Safari. Safari refuses to load the content of the iFrame. …More »

You might think I’m crazy, as a relatively new freelancer, to be turning down work, but I’m REALLY not into poker. I don’t mind playing the occasional friendly poker game, but spending my working hours steeped in lousy gif animations, affiliate codes, and terminology that means as much to me as an ancient text written in Aramaic (which is to say nothing) is just not my idea of fun. Poker sites just don’t turn my crank. I don’t want to do poker sites, so I’m passing on offers and requests to work on them. Even if I did do some …More »

I’ve been working on a website recently, and it finally got to the point where I moved it from one server to another. Seems like everyone in the world could see the new site but me, so I thought it was high time I flushed my cache. I did a quick google search and found that all I need to do is type this in Terminal: sudo lookupd -flushcache. The problem is, that’s not working on my machine. All I get is this lame response: sudo: lookupd: command not found. Googling that hasn’t done me any good. Anyone have any …More »

I just bought a MacBook Pro to take the place of both my G5 tower and my G4 iBook, and immediately had a problem installing PHP using the Universal Binary package from entropy.ch. I had transferred all of the files off of my G5 to the new MacBook using Apple’s very handy Migration Assistant, but that assistant will only go so far. The PHP installation I had got borked, so I had to head back to Marc Liyanage’s site to get the newest-Intel based package for install. The problem is, when you use a tool like the Migration Assistant, if …More »

Masuga Design has been listed in a recent design set entitled Super Clean – Part 2 over at Design Melt Down. Referring to this set of sites, they write: “This set of sites is not for the faint hearted, clicking through my result in vast discouragement as you realize some people really bring some serious game to the table. This set does nothing but inspire me to focus and work harder.”

As a new sole-proprietor, I had to get up to speed on exactly how to pay my taxes, and I found that I need to start paying estimated quarterly taxes, which I’ve never had to do up until now. I’m not at a point where I can afford an accountant so I was looking for some sort of easy (yeah, right!) solution on how to do this, and I actually found one. I’ve been using WebTurboTax to pay my taxes for years, and leave it to them to come up with a service geared for the estimated taxes crowd: estimatedtaxes.com. …More »

After a long weekend up north, followed by an East Coast road trip that took me through Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, I’m back in Grand Rapids and ready to get back to work. I guess you could say that by taking my iBook to make sure I had access to email, visiting a few of my East Coast clients (like casperelectronics and Bully Dog Bikes), and answering the phone a few times, that I never really stopped working. To some people, staying so connected while on vacation might be anathema, but when you really love what …More »

Many thanks to the teams at CSSRemix and CSSMania for calling attention to my new Masuga Design site! You can see the archived pages for Masuga Design at: CSSRemix and CSSMania. Thanks so much for posting my site. My Mint stats are going ballistic, and it’s nice to see that my design and layout is getting some decent votes on both sites. UPDATE: Looks like this site is making the rounds of the CSS-inspiration sites. I was just looking at my Mint stats and noticed that the unique count for today was into four digits. All the latest hits are …More »

My current set up consists of two Macs, which includes a G5 tower in the main office and a 12" G4 iBook for those times I need to be out of the office. I usually keep both machines on at all times, so I always have two screens open (for no good reason, really, other than that I really prefer to type on the laptop keyboard, so I keep my laptop running mostly for email. But sometimes I just like the intimacy of working on this little machine, so I just use it instead). As a new freelancer, this Memorial …More »

Lately this site has been having connection problems, as the server it is on is slightly overloaded (as I’ve been told by the web host). This doesn’t only affect this site, but all of my client development sites, as well as a few live client sites. I want to apologize for any delays or disruptions in service that you might have experienced lately, and I want you to know that I’m on the problem. There will be some server changes made by this weekend. These changes should improve connections, eliminate timeouts, improve overall speed, and fix email issues. Thanks for …More »