10 Volt Media Blog

I'll admit it, I'm a Pandora addict. My own personal DJ is, in my opinion, pretty awesome. I listen to it almost all day too: on the train (iPhone App), at work, at home. So I've been looking for a way to play Pandora on my OS X desktop but haven't found anything I really like. Then recently I read about Safari's Web Clips and a lightbulb went off: I could use a Pandora Web Clip!

Yesterday Google released their Firefox add-on, Page Speed. Until now, this compliment to Firebug was closed source and only used internally by Google. Now it's free and open source - and it's pretty cool.

As designers, we constantly deal with requests that would never fly in retail or service industries. Here's a funny, and all too true look at the relationship between clients and vendors.

It’s really easy to find yourself wondering how your CSS got to be such a mess. Sometimes it’s the result of sloppy coding from the start, sometimes it’s because of multiple hacks and changes over time. Whatever the cause, it doesn’t have to be that way. Writing clean, super-manageable CSS is simple when you start off on the right foot and make your code easier to maintain and edit later on. Here are 11 tips for speeding up the process, writing CSS that is slimmer, faster and less likely to give you a headache.