Fred Yates is a Boston based web designer working for
thoughtbot but always loves
your freelance inquiry. Other than
design he cares only about three things:
golf,
gaming, and girls.
Fred believes the only thing one needs to be truly happy is good friends and a sense of
humor. Having these things along with a carefree lifestyle, Fred has recently been enjoying
life more than ever. A happy designer produces great design and for Fred, life is good.
Special thanks to Golf Working for
their inspiring photography and Tristan Dunn
for helping me with his javascript genius.
No Love For Internet Explorer
I was going to write a long explanatory dialogue of why I'm not supporting IE but this is
the abridged version. Basically, Internet Explorer doesn't support CSS3 very well at all,
and I wanted to try and do this entire portfolio in CSS3. I did this, quite successfully
too I might add, but if you want to see it you'll have to try
Chrome,
Firefox, or
Safari.
This portfolio is more for me, than anyone else, especially not IE users. I don't need a job,
I didn't have to showcase my cross browser compatibility skills, and I wanted to challenge myself
by using forward thinking technologies like CSS3 and HTML5 (the HTML5 part was fun, but is not
supported well enough for me to use and I had to revert to XHTML). Chances are, if you have a
job offer for me that involves working with IE, I'm going to turn it down anyway. So, I'm sort of
sorry for forcing you to use a better browser, but believe me, it's better for everyone in the long run,
your kids will thank me.
I love you, goodnight.
