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Blog au Roux

Great Creole cuisine comes from the blending of cultural influences — French, Spanish, Caribbean and African — to create a truly distinctive and memorable taste. Our varied backgrounds allow us to share our collective expertise. As for Creole cooking, we start with one core piece of advice, “First you make a roux…”

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Icon Fonts, Where Have You Been All My Life?

The thing about icons is that they’re everywhere, and they need to be. They provide a visual cue for something important or actionable, draw your attention away from gobs of text, and add emotion to what you’re presenting. As important, and essential to a website as they are, I’ve always found them kind of annoying to work with.

Email Signature Best Practices

Email Signature Best Practices

Compared to Tweets, Texts, and Status Updates, e-mail might seem boring and as old as time itself. However, for any kind of in-depth back-and-forth communication, they’re a necessity that we must still live with for the time being (sorry Google Wave).

Scalable Design in a Mobile World

Remember a couple months ago, when Apple announced the iPhone 4 – with its double-resolution, 960×480 pixel “Retina” display – and everyone in the audience went ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’?

All I could think about at that moment was, “Wait. What? How are they going to pull that off without everything exploding?” What would he announce next? Cats and dogs living together in harmony?

From Cufon to Typekit

Before the advent of Typekit and technologies like Cufon and sIFR, designers were stuck using only the fonts that came bundled with the average computer, so the Internet mostly looked like a gigantic Word Document written in Times New Roman and Arial.

A plain looking website is fine if it functions primarily as an information distribution platform. But if you really want your business or personal website to stand out and stay modern, few things work better and more intrinsically than an inventive and stylistic font.

Developing for the iPad

The iPad has taken the world by storm, selling 300,000 copies its first day and as many as 750,000 in its first half week on the market.  Thousands of early adopters waited for hours outside Best Buys and Apple Stores across the country just to get their hands on an iPad as soon as possible.

While the new device’s launch has been peppered with connectivity problems, it’s definitely a game changer in the technology world.  Aside from making a nice salsa, the iPad represents the latest and greatest user-friendly tablet technology, making media more accessible than ever before.

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