I’m looking for applications where the user sorts a large pile of things into many buckets. Web and non-web applications appreciated. I’ll link suggestions to this entry. Thanks!
Movable Type’s mass-editing interface.
NASA’s Martian Crater sorter.
iTunes playlists.
Yes, a site design update. Thanks to Floatutorial for the CSS help.
Update: Anita Rowland alerted me to some IE6 problems. I hope I’ve got those fixed now.
A nice visualization of the by-county vote in the 2003 California recall election, done by the same person responsible for the analysis of the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
Here, the state map is re-calibrated by votes instead of land area, which shows the importance of small, but densely populated areas relative to large, sparsely populated [...]
Lucas Gonze deconstructs Google’s HTML. View Source to see his annotations. When you’re pushing gigabytes an hour, you do some optimizations.
Notes on the header Javascript:
No language=”Javascript” attribute, presumably dropping back to the default to save bytes downloaded. [ The language attribute is no longer part of HTML ]
Very little action, for cross browser compatibility.
I didn’t [...]
Learn the tao of CSS positioning with float.
The two column layout tutorial was a great help.
[ via Bitflux Blog ] An online exhibit of Edo Era (17th to Early 20th Century CE) woodblock prints is not as ‘pretty’ as Hiroshige’s work. Instead, these are annotated illustrations of the news of the day (as far as I can tell.) Some are rough sketches, others are detailed, colorful images of fires, battles, [...]
[ via xmlhack ] Picfolio looks pretty cool for managing photo pages. It’s another XSLT tool. This one dives into a directory tree of images, generating an XML file describing them. It can also pull any metadata inserted by your camera into the document. Then you can apply an XSLT transform to generate a static [...]
[ via Allen Baki ] Because yo’ ass need gold-trimmed, diamond-studded text fo’ yo’ website: a tutorial, know what I’m sayin’?
This entry was shizzolated by the Shizzolator n’shit.
I’ve posted the collective notes of Jed Hartman, David Levine, Connie Toebe, Tisha Turk, and myself in preparation for the Building Attractive Web Pages panel at WisCon 27.
Simon’s started, after a delay for exams, his CSS tutorial. So go learn already!
Examples of forms for web applications that reduce confusion and move the user along through the task.
I’m looking forward to reading Jeffrey Zeldman’s new book.
Delaunay-Terk and Cendrars’ La Prose du TranssibÈrien et de la petite Jehanne de France was a small bit of the Art Deco exhibit at the Victoria and Albert, but it facinated me. The piece is a long, folded piece of cardstock with a prose poem travelouge of Cendrars’ train trip from Moscow to the Sea [...]
In which Professor Tufte addresses the tyrany of PowerPoint.
[ via Allen Baki ] Most monitors can display more than the 216 colors in the original browser-safe palette. Kirk Franklin’s moreCrayons lets you explore the larger 4,096 color space.
