One of my reasons for a new design is to allow for better organization of content, and the addition of new bits. I want to add a couple of features: a topic / category listing (perhaps a tag cloud) and a link blog. I also want to flatten information architecture a bit, so that it’s [...]
[17 Jul 2006]
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 W3C recommendations for developing mobile web content. [Via goto Mobile] Firefox releases 2.0 beta Lifehacker has FF2.0b1 screenshots. New features include the ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs, better RSS reading, a spell-checker, and support for SVG text. And speaking of Firefox, one study says its use is growing worldwide [...]
[13 Jul 2006]
My current site design has been chugging along since 2004. I decided then to go with a minimalist layout with bright colors: skinny navigation, tiny type, and lots of text. I think now, however, it’s showing its age. Maybe that’s because I look at it every day. But it’s wearing on me, so I plan [...]
[26 Jun 2006]
Not the food mind you. Its web site. I went to visit using Firefox / Mac, only to be greeted by this message. Two words: Not. cool. Two more words: Utterly. useless. Now what groovy bits of info do Windows users get that can’t possibly be served up to a Mac, even in a plain-text [...]
[12 Jun 2006]
JavaScript evolution to follow Python, creator says JavaScript will be moving closer to the structure of Python with version 2 … er, maybe I need to add Python to my list of must learns. Brendan Eich: JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web Related to the above link, Ajaxian has a bit about Eich’s [...]
[14 May 2006]
Slides from php|tek Bits of information from conference presentations. [Via Chris Shiflett] Cluesheet Quick-n-dirty PHP development tips. [Also via Shiflett] IE7 For XP Beta 2: Has Firefox Met Its Match? IE 7 is a very good browser — if you’ve never used Firefox. WineCamp Geek + Grapes = me green with envy. [Via Emily Chang] [...]
[3 May 2006]
On the “mobile web” and contextual relevance Lawrence.com goes mobile, and does an amazingly kick-ass job of it. As Croft explains on his blog: “So what’s on the mobile site? Five things. Just five. We’ve parred it down to things we think people will really want to do on their cell phone or similar device, [...]
[12 Apr 2006]
In case you missed it, Microsoft has changed the way ‘ActiveX’ content — including Flash and QuickTime — is embedded in web pages. With the change, a user will have to click once to activate an ActiveX control before interacting with it. Effectively, users will have to click twice on any link embedded in a [...]
[5 Apr 2006]
You may or may not know (and you may or may not care) that I started my career in online journalism. So I have a bit of an interest in how news is presented online. To me most news web sites throw way to much at the user. So much so that it’s hard to [...]
[5 Apr 2005]