Christopher Schmitt

Head Conference, The Virtual Conference

Over the weekend about 100 people were hanging out in my apartment. They weren't there for a Halloween party or to give me tips on interior decorating (I'm keeping the Coolio poster no matter what anyone says). The crowd was viewing me through my webcam on my laptop while I ...

IZEAFest Keynote: Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann's How to Blog keynote presentation in Orlando, FL at IZEAFest covered material he learned over the last four years related to blogging. Just cause it's easy to post, doesn't mean you should. What's a blog? Topic multiplied by voice. ...

IZEAFest: Big Money Bloggers

Drew Bennett moderated the Big Money Bloggers Panel at IZEAFest in Orlando, FL. The panel consisted of financially successful bloggers including Stephanie Agresta, John Chow, Neil Patel, and Jeremy Schoemaker. Question: "Why did you get into blogging?" Stephanie Agresta: It ...

IZEAFest: Improving Your Content

Susie Gardner's Improving Your Content presentation as a part of IZEAFest in Orlando, FL dealt with the elements of a successful blog. Content is king, obligatory slide (with gold crown). Your content needs to inform, attract, deliver, entertain, inspire, ...

IZEAFest Keynote: Jeremy Schoemaker

Jeremy Schoemaker's Show Me the Money! Keynote covered how he got to where he was to where he is today. Major themes included hard work, prioritization, diligence, and some more hard work. Jeremy Schoemaker met Ted Murphy at SXSW08 and was asked to keynote IZEAFest Path to Online Success 420lbs Over 50k in credit ...

Panel Picking Ends for SXSW09

I've always thought of SXSW Interactive festival as our conference. This step-child of the Music and Movie fesitivals taking place each March in Austin, TX is our industry's spring break, high school reunion, booze cruise and product showcase rolled into one. It also doesn't hurt that that the barbeque ...

CSS 3 Attribute Selectors

Another article of mine makes its appearance at the Opera Developer Community thanks to Chris Mills and Bruce Lawson. This time the topic covers CSS 3 Attribute Selectors: CSS attribute selectors allow us to pinpoint the values of attributes of an element and to style that element accordingly. CSS3 introduces ...

Translucent Elements with CSS

From the Opera Developer Community, the talented folks who managed the Web Standards Curriculum, comes my latest colum. This article covers the method for varying the opacity of elements in a Web document: There are two general methods for creating partially transparent elements on a Web page. The first method ...

The Graphic Design Realization

Back in 1998 in a movie theatre that doesn't exist anymore, I looked at a movie poster. It’s the moment I realized there is such a thing as graphic design. As a Batman fan—more so a DC Comics fan—the poster captivated me. I remember staring at the poster in the ...

Christopher Schmitt Voices That Matter Interview at SXSW 2008

Along with fellow co-authors Kevin Lawver and Kimberly Blessing, your hero was also interviewed at the recent SXSW for Voices That Matter podcast. Below is the video the publisher made of the interview along with the transcript I’ve recently produced to go along with it. Micahel Nolan: Hi, I am Michael Nolan, ...