Category Archives: design
Design Hope
Veerle is one of my favorite Web designers. She came clean recently and republished her first website circa 1996! She cited Jason Santamaria’s recent post about his own earliest Web work. OK so now I have another new favorite Web … Continue reading
Thought Propulsion™ is Go For Burn
The Thought Propulsion™ corporate site is up and running. For the technically inclined, here are some interesting facts: hosted on Amazon EC2 using the extremely slick EC2 On Rails Ubuntu/Ruby on Rails virtual appliance there’s a tasty microformatted hcard on … Continue reading
NYT Multimedia Presentation Viewer
The New York Times’ multimedia presentation viewer is a thing of beauty. The example below is taken from a story on Benazir Bhutto. Flash wins again. Notice how hovering over the thumb yields a time-indexed image popup. Very fluid, very … Continue reading
Apple Packaging Porno
Update 3/28/08:Here’s a young man of like mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjS89zUxtgM
Safari 3 Beta Nav List Eschews Anchors in Favor of CSS cursor Property and Click Events
The Safari 3 Public Beta page has a nice little navigation list in the middle: 12 reasons you’ll love Safari. It’s kind of “semantic” markup since it uses an ordered list to enumerate the choices (as opposed to e.g. a … Continue reading
Heinous Corner-Rounding of the Day Award (HCROD) #1: Powells Books (div per image)
My sister recently sent me an (online) gift certificate to Powells books. I just love those stores but had never been to the web site. It turns out that the site, like the stores, is exceptionally cool. You can browse … Continue reading
Tableful Grace
I love reading about table-less layout with CSS. My experience though has been that it never really works for forms. I always end up resorting to tables to lay out my labels, controls and instructions. Well brother, Dan Benjamin and … Continue reading
