Just got back from the TLA Conference in Chattanooga. I had a good time, saw several people that I hadn’t seen in a few years. The presentations were good, Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect was the keynote speaker. Sadly I didn’t get to hear her speak since the room was standing-room only by the time I … Read more
Yep the templates I talked about a bit ago are out. Actually they were released Friday afternoon. Creative Services has a nice site up for them, and this template roll-out is a lot more pleasant and well received than the one in 2003. Once again, Darren has a post about the design of the templates.
When I started my job at Hodges, I knew 95% of the designs I came up would have to fit in the UT template which is ugly, brown/beige, and table based, with minimal CSS. When the templates appeared in 2003, Matt Grayson and I were working on a new site design for SIS, so we … Read more
“Click here” Why must people says things like click here on a web page link? It’s on the Web Pages that Suck list of things not to do. It’s on Jakob Nielsen‘s list of Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. 2005 people! I’ll admit I’m no usability genius, I learned the click here thing … Read more
I use Sizer on the Windows side of things quite a bit. It’s freeware that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. It can also tell you how large a window is. Anybody know of a utility like this for the Mac?
This Macworld article led me to a nice utility called Virtue Desktops. Makes switching between Win XP and OS X really simple.
So I needed to figure out the hex values for a color a few minutes ago. OS X has a built in color app but it’s a bit hard to get to. Thanks to this blog post, I found out all I need to do is fire up Applescript and type “choose color” and save … Read more
The battle is here. With Dreamweaver and GoLive now both owned by Adobe, what will get included in Creative Suite? The answer is… both. CS Premium will include both GoLive and Dreamweaver. I wonder how long that will last? And I guess Fireworks will disappear which is sad. I’ve never felt that Photoshop was that … Read more
Blogging has slowed down because life is still busy and I haven’t had much time to think, let alone post anything. I’m settling in to a new office and am beginning to figure out my job. Right now I’m waiting on computers and software so I can debug a new site design…
Well I’m starting to get settled in at Hodges. Still waiting on keys to my office, which may not matter since I may be moving offices anyway. Still don’t know quite what I’m doing yet, but I do know I’m the only person in Hodges whose sole job is designing web sites. That probably means … Read more
