Michael Parler

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Left, Right, and Nothing Below

I’m not normally one to blog about industry-related topics, but someone I work with suggested that I share my knowledge with others about an important css trick that apparently not many people know about. The trick at hand is clearing floats without any extra source markup, aside of the floated items and their holding container.

This is knowledge that spurred from reading a book back at the office called Transcending CSS. The only real problem was that it didn’t even really explain what or how to handle this trick, but only suggested following a link to read more about it. When I did, the link was taken down and archived, and I couldn’t find any more information about it on the web. Read More…

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About

Pic of Michael ParlerI’m a self-proclaimed anal retentive social train wreck with a hint of obsessive compulsive personality disorder. My focus is creating content for the standards-based internet market. The majority of my life revolves around the internet and online culture. I roughly blow 12 hours of each day sitting in front of a computer screen.

I currently work full-time at Hydra, a web media agency where we provide our clients with digital marketing tools that evoke positive change. At Hydra it’s my duty to push pixels and build websites. I work as the production lead, spearheading the planning of projects, client meetings, information design, and rallying the team into fruition. When I get my hands dirty, I specialize in standards-based CSS development, authoring semantic markup, PHP programming, copywriting, and occasional Flash actionscript hell.

Besides burning my eyes with monitors, I enjoy loud music, lots of beer, climbing fake rocks, waving at other Jeep Wranglers, and hanging all around Orlando.

But most importantly, my Magic: The Gathering deck is cooler than yours.

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Resume

objective

To apply my exceptional design and development abilities in an interactive environment where I can not only showcase my work, but also help promote the work of others, to educate one another, promote web standards, and further enhance the overall work of my team.

education

Full Sail - Orlando, FL
BS in Digital Arts and Design
Salutatorian
Certificate of Excellence
Course Director Award: Fundamentals of Web Design
Course Director Award: Advanced Web Design
Hillwood H.S. - Nashville, TN
Highschool Diploma
Three years of graphic design courses
Two years of print shop courses
One year of traditional arts

software

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • UltraEdit32 | Text Editors
  • SoundForge

languages

  • xHTML
  • CSS
  • XML
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Actionscript

experience

Hydra
Orlando, FL
February 2007 - present
Production Lead / Web Developer
Spark
Tampa, FL
August 2006 - January 2007
Interactive Developer

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Contact

  • email: michaelparler@michaelparler.com
  • AIM: argument desk
  • phone: 321.279.3875

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