It’s NBA Playoff time and the NBA cares.  For April 2009 I’ve decided to write about the NBA.  I know they aren’t necessarily a charity but they certainly deserve recognition for the good that they do through NBA Cares.

“NBA Cares is the league’s social responsibility initiative that builds on the NBA’s long tradition of addressing important social issues in the United States and around the world. Through this umbrella program, the NBA, its teams and players have committed to donating $100 million to charity, providing a million hours of hands on service to the community and creating 250 places where kids and families can live, learn or play.” – The NBA Cares Commitment

The NBA Cares initiative has logged close to 1 million hours of hands on service and raised millions of dollars  for communities and families. The NBA’s social responsibilities  initiative  focuses their efforts on issues related to education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.

They have provided learning centers, preached health and wellness, promoted the importance reading and much more to kids and their communities.  Recently the Dallas Mavericks dedicated their 7th Reading and Learning Center to the Dallas community. Another example of what NBA Cares is doing for their communities is the Toyota Rebounds Project. Teaming up with Toyota they are currently working on 15 community projects to refurbish courts and build learning centers.

NBA players and organizations through its’ popularity bring a lot to the table when dealing with social issues and simple enough they make a difference to communities around the world.  Find out what else NBA Cares at www.NBA.com/nba_cares/.

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INTERNET EXPLORER TOTALLY BLOWS

From a web designers perspective, IE really sucks and specifically IE7 and lower. With the recent release of IE 8 it will certainly be better but as of March 2009 there are still 41% (via w3Schools.com/browsers) of people still using IE7 and lower. The sad thing is people are still using IE6 in that percentage too.

Why does Internet Explorer suck? It basically sucks at rendering webpages and isn’t compliant with w3c standards.  Until the release of IE8, Internet Explorer was so far behind in web browsing standards.  This just creates extra work for developers because they not only have to develop for one brower, they have develop for multiple browsers becaues IE wants to be different and be sucky.  This will continue to be problem for while until the old IE browsers are phased out which may not be for a few years.

As we were developing the new Detailed Image site, coming soon, we ran into some wacky problems that can’t be ignored because there is still such a large percentage of people using IE7 and lower.  IE has been such a pain in the ass, so I want to share the problems that I’ve encountered while developing the new Detailed Image for Internet Explorer.

Stupid IE Problems

• PNG image transparency support.  This has been a known problem with Internet Explorer for a long time and even with the release of IE7 it wasn’t fixed.
• In IE7 a repeating transparent PNG image will cripple the browser.  This problem freaked me out because this could’ve meant developing a whole new design for IE7 and lower.
• In IE6 and lower there are major problems rendering css padding and margin.
• When using a css list style image as your default list style, list-style:none will not work.  You must use list-style-image:none.
• CSS list-style-position inside and outside may create funky list layouts.
• No CSS table support in IE7 and lower.  CSS tables are the future of  web design.

Those are some stupid problems that IE creates for web developers.

If you’re developing for Internet Explorer a must have tool for is IE Tester.  IE Tester is a great tool that lets you view websites from IE5.5 – IE8.  You can also add the plugin DebugBar for easier debugging of IE problems but this is in no way comparable to the Firefox plugin Firebug,  where you can make lives changes to a webpage which I highly recommend for web developing.

On the new Detailed Image we’re making a push for people to upgrade their browsers if they are using IE7 or lower with a subtle message at the top of the site and warning sign.

Users of IE7 or lower please upgrade your browser for a safer and better internet browsing experience.

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It was pretty cool to see Pure Adapt listed on the Plum Card site back in July 2008, but now we’re back on there for something else.  There was a quote pulled from Adam’s blog that is now in rotation on the the Plum Card website, check it out:

I was like “No Way!” when Greg informed me that AMEX left a message about featuring Pure Adapt in some way. Well it’s true and thanks to Adam’s blog, the quote “One of our best financial decisions we’ve made” is in rotation on the Plum Card site. That quote is very true, the Plum Card has done a lot for us.

The Plum Card has been vital to the growth of Pure Adapt and it truly is the perfect card for small businesses.

Wow looking back at it this is the third time I’ve posted about the Plum Card.

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One awesome thing, among many others, of being part of a 4 person company of owners is that we get to come up with some very cool promotions and really get creative.  On a regular basis my partners and I get together to brainstorm and plan out our upcoming promotions.  For the month of April we came up with a cool and unique Easter egg promotion for Detailed Image that just started today.

From today through April 14, 2009 every order at DetailedImage.com over $75 will receive a random Easter egg with a gift certificate inside.  Gift certificate values in the eggs will be either $10, $25, or $100.  In this promotion we’re providing value for ordering with us and a little excitement.  Take in the excitement of opening an Easter egg for a chance to get a free $100 gift certificate.

That’s just one of the creative promotions that we’ve ran so far at Detailed Image.  In the past we’ve also done color sales based on the holiday like our black and orange sale for Halloween and a numbers play like our 2009 $20.09 credit promotion.

I love the fact that we can get creative here at Pure Adapt. I think we have built the company in a way that we are flexible enough try new things out and change on a dime as need be.  As we continue to grow I look forward to working on bringing more creative promotions to our customers because we can and it’s fun as hell.

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