Masuga Design, LLC

Thanks to A List Apart for putting together a survey on Web Design – which many people still find to be a mysterious and arcane art. Heck, I even find it to be mysterious and arcane. How in the world did I end up doing this sort of work with a background in Fine Art (oil painting) and English? I, who only ever took one photoshop class in college (I think we were running Photoshop 3.0 at the time) and who had to be one of the last University of Michigan students to get an email address – sometime in …More »

I finally got around to updating that kooky AJAX Star Rating script to verion 1.2.0. Head over there right now what the fuss is about and see why that page gets Dugg, miniajax‘ed, tutorialblogged, and everything else. The star rater page has the details of the update.

I was working on a project today that has gone way beyond the bounds of reason, so I thought it would be funny to set my iChat message to “Scope Creeper” and find a picture of the Creeper from Scooby-Doo, which I did. I kept typing creeper-like noises into the chat window (very productive, no?) and he mentioned that I needed a Creeper icon. This is when I knew my iChat was messed up. I asked him if he had an icon, and he said he did, although all I could see was the generic AIM yellow running man. And …More »

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 »

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 »