Chet Reads & Writes*

Category: Internet Stuff

The Written Word Will Live!

For many weeks now I’ve been tinkering with the idea of book making. I came across Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms and since then have been feeling even more inspired. Then I found a ton of supplies at our local art supply store. I haven’t procured said supplies yet, but I have [...]

Fun Times with Schrödinger’s Cat & HTML

Schrödinger’s cat is not dead. For more information: [Wikipedia Article] Also see: [User Friendly] Share/Bookmark

Learning Lame Lessons

Since moving to Nebraska I’ve been on a consistent job hunt, while also attempting to get a freelancing venture going. This past week I had my first contact come in for an ecommerce site to be designed, developed and hosted. I went through the entire process with this client. That is, we discussed goals for [...]

For The Benefit of The Interns

This summer as been an awesome time of professional growth. Since may I’ve been employed by the City of Round Rock, Texas as the Marketing Intern at their Convention and Visitors Bureau. This opportunity has taught a lot about myself in a professional world. It has also helped that I have great office mates! Granted [...]

Web Designer Declaration of Independence

I’m a huge fan of Web Design standards, and if I could I’d love to work with the W3C more closely. I believe that all Web developers, designers and users should follow their standards and stop taking petty shortcuts. Apparently I’m not alone; I’ve optimistically assumed that I never was alone in this. Sam Dunn [...]

Programmer’s Delight

I’ve finally defeated most of the spammers in the world. I’ve struggled for months trying to solve my spam issues, to finally reach a resolve. There are multiple security techniques mentioned, though not explained. Help is provided if you’re feeling left out.

Is this the Real World?

In this blog Chet laments a bit about his role has Firm Principal in his PR firm, and how quickly he’s had to learn to deal with employees.

Take Note

This past weekend I was in Frisco, TX at the annual Texas Public Relations Association Conference. This is my second year to attend, and I had just as great an experience this time as last. I went to the conference in order to learn and expand my ideas on the Public Relations field, and of course to spread my network.

New, New, New!

Today is the first day of the new life of ChetGassett.com.

Similar to the Panda, it’s a mystery to me how IE has survived.

I recently entered the position of Web master at SHSU Recreational Sports. There are many projects that I am about to embark upon, but my first conquest is “fixing” the navigation bar. The following is the chronicle of my adventure into the land of CSS-only coding and design. Before I begin there are a few [...]