For the next week, I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest Interactive conference. This week of panels and networking is a yearly renewal of my passion for great design and reaffirmation that I want to (continue to try to) be a great web designer.

To find me in… [more]

Here is a little gem of an application – UmbrellaToday . It stays true to its very simple premise – answering the question “do you need an umbrella today?” Type in your zip code to get the answer, or provide your phone number and the site will text you at a determined time… [more]

Actors are not too different from bloggers. They have a talent of expression that they want to share with an audience. Their traditional avenues, on stage and on film, are equally costly and sparse. Unfortunately, a great many actors are convinced those are the only avenues and will give up their passion… [more]

It’s so simple really, and not at all new. It’s the original Facebook model, before it became huge.

Twitter is about proximity. Over the past year I have sent about 100 Twitter “tweets”. Over the past week I doubled that. Why? All the people who I am following, and who were following me, were all in… [more]

One of the primary concepts of modern web design is the separation of style and content. For many years when table layouts, tags and inline attributes likeroamed the web, it was impossible to disconnect the two; but, with the advent of stylesheets, separation it became an achievable goal.

I have spent years advocating building web sites… [more]

Above is a screenshot from CSS Beauty. I visit this site often for news and inspiration. It has great industry related information and ideas wrapped in a clean sharp design but built into a surprisingly unorthodox layout. Here’s the same screenshot, with the relevant content highlighted.

That is only about 10% of the visible page; the… [more]

I never watch TV in real time anymore, that’s why I have TiVo. And if TiVo glitches and forgets to record a show, as it did with Prison Break this week, now, thanks to cross-media syndication, I can just go online.

Prison Break is on Fox, who syndicates on MySpace. I was concerned I would have… [more]

This is Robleto.com 5.0, the fifth major overhaul of my website all about me. Each previous redesign updated the look and feel of the site, and improved the code underneath. This latest addresses goes even deeper, addressing the purpose of the site and how to handle outdated content.

Previously, Robleto.com delved into numerous personal topics including… [more]

If you are in the industry, you know about Web 2.0, but you may ask yourself, “Am I really applying the practices of this new movement. Sure I make a bottom reflection to my logos and write titles really really really big, but could I be doing something more?”
Yes you can.
Have you included… [more]

So, the company I work for, The Motley Fool, just launched a really cool new online game “” CAPS.The premise (as I understand it) is that there are these guys like Jim Kramer on CNBC who yell and bellow “pick this stock” or “pick that stock” with no accountability. There [more]