Kenric | behind the design

Author Archives: Kenric

Kenric has a degree in Electronic Imaging at Northern Michigan University, and when he’s not losing sleep, he tirelessly slaves away creating websites. Kenric enjoys art (both standard and digital) as well as reading all sorts of things: nerd magazines like Popular Science, books, and a lot of online reading. Originally from a small farming town in the rural Lower Peninsula, he’s a solid convert to Marquette living. He enjoys garage sales, Saint Vincent’s, and all the outdoor activities the area has to offer.

A Regularly Updated Browser is a Happy Browser

May 3, 2010 – 2:48 pm

First of all, what is a web browser? You’re using one right now. It is a program used to access and change information on the World Wide Web. Some of the most popular ones are Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome. You may even be using one on your iPhone or other cell phone. A [...]

Posted in Commentary, Software, Tips for Businesses | Comments Off

HTML 5

February 10, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Recently, the popular online video services Vimeo and YouTube announced that they would be rolling out support for HTML 5 video. Wait. What’s HTML 5? It’s the next version of the basic code that is used to create web pages. It will offer various ways to create web pages that are richer, and both user [...]

Posted in Code/Design, Commentary, News | Comments Off

Making Web Searches More Fun

December 8, 2009 – 12:22 pm

The Google Wonder Wheel is an expansion to the Google search that I heard of recently that allows searches to have a different user interface that automatically suggests multiple related searches and displays them in a kind of chart form. You really have to try it out to understand. All you have to do is [...]

Posted in Neat Ideas, Software | Comments (2)

Backing Up Your Google Data May Soon Be Easier

November 5, 2009 – 3:58 pm

Hopefully this story will become more common in the near future with online services besides Google. From webmonkey.com comes a story about letting users have free reign over their own data, an approach that would make sense to most people, but not always companies. The article “Pack Up Your Data and Leave Whenever You Want, [...]

Posted in Neat Ideas, News | Comments Off

Goodies

September 16, 2009 – 9:39 am

What’s nice about the internet is that there are so many sites out there that offer free resources for design. The thing is that sometimes they can’t be used for commercial purposes or maybe require credit to be given each time you use the download, which is a problem if you happen to be a [...]

Posted in Code/Design | Tagged freebies, resources | Comments Off