Leopard is launching Oct. 26! Just around the corner!

What was that quiet sound, heard for a moment and then gone? It was the soft, soft launch of bkwld.com.

Any major dude will tell you that the BKWLD site needed a new direction. Where have they gone, you wonder? Well we’ve been busy doing dirty work, you know? Sometimes the hardcore hustle keeps you from taking care of business on your own site. As real as that talk is, what good is a web agency without a real website? One day this summer we got the feeling and a glorious battle ensued to elevate the site from the valley of the shadows to the glory it once was. Congrats to Robert on making such an amazing site we can all be proud of!

Whether fate or destiny, BKWLD has been through a series of meaningful movements in the past year, the salad days coming to a close. Sacramento has reached a critical mass and moved on from the junkies and liquor stores on Del Paso to 1300 S Street downtown. Josh joined us and, along with Dan, brought Seattle to the next level. Seattle also welcomed three new young americans - Koa, Marylee, and Max - effectively doubling our computer love in Seatown.

BKWLD. Easy like a sunday morning.

Oh wait, no mix is complete with out this (what?!).

Come Monday, BKWLD Sacramento will have a new home in an amazing new space in Downtown Sac.

Call me crazy, but it’s a little bittersweet.

Del Paso Boulevard will always hold a special place in our hearts. We’ll certainly miss our local liquor store and its owner Sam. Joy, next store with her coffee. The motley crew of hobos, beggars, gangsters, pimps, prostitutes and ‘Johns’ that gave us so much enjoyment through our one-way window.

We’ll also miss Little Joe’s, Frenchie’s, The Dos and all of the other terrible-ass restaurants we braved a handful of times. As well as the small, (and I mean SMALL) handful of yummy places like the Taqueria, Uptown Cafe and Refugio.

Call me sentimental, but more than just the neighborhood, I think we have a lot to thank ol’ 1901a for. Our current office’s open floor space and culture has a direct correlation to creating the tight and closely knit crew we are today. There’s a reason why we do such great work, collaborate so well and love what we do. Certainly a good deal of that is because we love the web and our clients, but more than that, we care about each other and have enjoyed our time here.

Now that I am going to be in my own office and not smack dab with the creatives, I am going to miss being in the thick of things a bit. I am going to miss the omnipotent stereo, and the constant hum of people typing, talking and thinking. And as nice as the privacy and quiet that the office will afford me, I am sure I will find myself wandering out to the creative area very often, lap top in hand, looking forward to the buzz and energy.

So now we look onward! The new office certainly looks to capture Buk’s same fiery dynamic, in a much better suited location, full of even better coffee shops and sandwich joints. The Seattle office as well is busting at the seams of its office, and will shortly be having the same change Sacramento is making, leaving it’s intimate and cramped space, for a new and kick-ass one.

So to Del Paso Boulevard: Thank you for helping to make BKWLD Sacramento the team we are today.

Last time i flew I noticed the lady next to me was owning the Sudoku puzzle in the back of the Southwest Airlines magazine. I gave it my best but I can not for the life of me understand what I am supposed to do. The instructions simply say “Use logic to fill in the nine squares” - I tried for 40 minuted to understand the “logic” to filling in the blanks, it just served to make me feel inadequate and dumb. I would prefer hang man or M.A.S.H please.

I found a “funny” blog:

quotation-marks.blogspot.com

Triple Grande No-Gloria-Estefan-iTunes-Single Non-Fat No-Breakfast Sandwich Extra-Hot Caff

From xkcd.com.

Ben sent this song out a few months ago, and well it became an instant hit within the office. Devin DeHaven blessed me with the video version he shot recently in Chicago. This could very well be the best video ever made.

Real Talk

A tip for those of you needing the easiest and most efficient way to build a site and make IE behave when rendering CSS. The secret is IE conditional statements. These are special html comments that only IE can read. The trick is to link to additional style sheets that overwrite rules in the master style sheet in a more IE friendly way. By nesting the links within these comments, only IE sees them. Other browsers skip right over them and behave as expected.

Here is the syntax:

<head>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/master.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
	<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie.css" type="text/css" media="all" charset="utf-8" /><![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie7.css" type="text/css" media="all" charset="utf-8" /><![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie6.css" type="text/css" media="all" charset="utf-8" /><![endif]-->
	<title>BKWLD</title>
</head>

For best results, one should always develop their site using a standards compliant browser as a reference point, such as Firefox or Safari, then make adjustments to the IE style sheets once build is complete. I prefer to design with Firefox, as I find fewer inconsistencies between it and Safari when I develop this way. I say this as a Geko hater.