September 2009
13 posts
Cheese or Font?
Harder than it sounds.
Play “Cheese or Font?”
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, on technology source
Tales from the Redesign.
I’m redesigning, revamping, reconstructing, re-whatevering my website. Actually, I’m not sure it ever really existed in the first place. I’ve had a string of accounts on social media sites, the odd joke page here and there, a school page—but never actually a website based on who I am and what I do.
Which might seem odd, given.. what I do.
I’m calling it a...
Great Blogs File: "Brand New"
Among the horde of web and graphic design blogs out there that seem to always throw lists at me (in the form of—to reference a great article from ‘Web Pages that Suck‘—”[number] [hyperbole-based modifier] [name of software or web-related noun] for your [some type of mental state]”), Under Consideration’s “Brand New” is refreshing.
Brand New
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“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman source
What I'm Reading (Offline)
Just read:
Mary Stewart, “The Ivy Tree”
Mary Stewart, “Wildfire at Midnight”
A. S. Byatt, “Posession”
Rosina Lippi, “The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square”
Carrie Ryan, “The Forest of Hands and Teeth”
Orson Scott Card, “Ender’s Game”
Peter Mayle, “A Year in Provence”
Reading now:
Kate Chopin, “The...
Adobe Kuler →
iurikato:
here’s adobe kuler, a great web app for finding and creating color themes
http://hello.hotgloo.com/ →
Played around with this today… it’s a brand-new in-browser wireframing tool. I was able to build a nice little index page in about five minutes, and only felt like I scratched the surface. I’m extremely excited.
Excellent CodeIgniter Framework Tutorial →
I’m diving into using frameworks and have been really pleased with this roundup of tutorials from NetTuts+.