Masuga Design, LLC

When I was thinking about the layout of this site, I looked at numerous similar sites to see how wide they were. The majority of sites I’ve worked on have been a static width, usually centered, but sometimes anchored to the side, and have almost always been no wider than 770 pixels, which is usually a pretty safe bet for the majority of the population. I thought that that width seemed a little thin for what I had in mind with this site. What I found through studying the layouts of my web mentors is that their sites are much, …More »

Back in January, I cobbled together a PHP script to put multiple AJAX star rating bars on a page (2177 downloads as of this writing), based on work found at Komodo Media and Climax Designs, with the goal of making a WordPress plugin to rival Votio. I still haven’t had the time to do that. But when I do, I’ll post it here in a section of this site that I haven’t yet made live. That forthcoming section will be specifically for scripts, plugins, and any other extra stuff that someone else might find useful. If you want to see …More »

If you’re a web designer that, like me, manages your sites using Subversion source control (and not necessarily with Rails, but just in general), you might want to read this article written at Hivelogic concerning “SVN Exposure”. I realized a few projects I had worked on were not protected, but with the help of a little .htaccess magic: RewriteRule ^(.*/)?.svn/ - [F,L] ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden" I was able to fix the problem.