Jakob Nielsen’s posted his top ten list of design mistakes in weblogs. In the interest of bloging one’s mistakes, I’m guilty of at least:
No ‘about’ page.
My about is more of a colophon, and that hasn’t been updated since last century.
I should do something about that, neh?
No author photo.
Here I am in Maui last year. I’ve [...]
Jeremy Keith argues CSS 2 pseudo-classes which enhance pages (:hover, :focus, etc.) are behaviors, and such effects ought to be implemented by scripting the Document Object Model.
This started with Derek Featherstone asking designers and developers to stop treating IE6 as a pariah because of its incomplete CSS 2 implementation.
Keith says:
I think this belief isn’t based [...]
Last year Cyn and I went to Sunset Magazine’s annual home and garden expo to see the Glidehouse, a modernist modular home designed by architect Michelle Kaufmann (see photo.)
This year she’s demoing a new modular design, the Breezehouse, at the Sunset event. The new design has two prebuilt modules on either side of a breezeway [...]
How does one group of conservative Christians plan to deal with the uncertainties of the modern world?
The authors envision a state designed to protect the “integrity” of the home — autonomous family units composed exclusively of one woman, one man, and as many children as possible. As incentive for the mother to stay home and [...]
Wow. Just learned from a SxSW trip report that Dunstain Orchard’s working at Apple. I like his design work, and the nifty features on his homepage.
That CSS float clearing method
Mezzoblue’s warning about scrollbars appearing in some cases when using the above.
Sam Ruby’s i18n guide
JavaScript Templates
Would be interesting with fetching templates via XMLHTTPRequest instead of stashing them in textareas.
Tim Bray thinks Technorati ought to charge
They’d have to figure out how to fight tag spammers.
Salon.com interview with Ian M. Banks that I [...]
Adam Greenfield on the fault lines between actual use, and how the designers imagined people would use technology:
I have never seen a use case that starts with a proposition like “Greta wants to sneak out and meet her lover Patrick, without making her husband Bertrand suspicious.” Or “Kenji wants his private contact information to be [...]
So my friend Eileen Gunn publishes her book of short stories. And her partner, typography guru John Berry, designed the book. Pretty cool.
Eileen also edits The Infinite Matrix. The Infinite Matrix has a weblog by Howard Waldrop, which is amazing considering I don’t think he has a computer.
The Infinite Matrix also has an RSS feed [...]
Here’s an idea that needs smothering in the crib immediately: Andy Bubb gone into apologist mode for table-based layout. Bubb’s rationale is that there is a learning curve for CSS.
Sites are not developed by designers alone. There are engineers behind them. Designing with tables does not reduce your cost. All it does is shift it [...]
[ via The Badger ] Edward Tufte meets Dr. Spock, obsessively records an infant’s sleeping, eating, and pooping, then writes a weblog.
The sections devoted to measuring sleep; and the production, storage, and consumption of milk are classics.
The HTML Dog asks how to represent consecutive links. This is an instance of one-to-many links. The XLink standard handles this, but what widely used browser implements XLink?
I’ll refer you to Bob DuCharme’s tutorial on creating one-to-many links using XLink rendered to a DHTML control using XSLT and JavaScript.
I found Guyot Design’s SplashGuard at REI this weekend. It’s a plastic insert for the top of your wide-mouthed Nalgene bottle that keeps you from spilling the contents down the front of your t-shirt when you try to take a sip from it on the elliptical trainer at the gym.
Tomas Jogin takes a swing at template systems.
How to hide CSS from IE 5 Mac, at least until people stop using IE for Mac.
Norman Walsh joins the rest of us CSS zealots.
MarcN responded to my request for examples sorting and categorizing applications with a nice list of applications for Mac OS. I’m downloading DevonThink.
