Category: work
Footprints in the sand.
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CSS Menu Writer debuts
Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs. I got to spend an hour with the program prior to…
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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The vanishing personal site
OUR PERSONAL SITES, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and…
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WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.
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Designers wanted
Happy Cog, Apple, Amazon, Flickr, Woot and more are looking to hire great designers.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu
If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”
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Not your father’s standards switch
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7 “broke the web,” the quest was on to find…
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Adios, Technorati?
Without my permission, Technorati has stuck my photo and its logo in the sidebar of my site’s front page.
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Facts and Opinions about Zeldman
Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.
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We live as we dream
My cold is in its second week; I slept less than four hours last night. Yesterday we decided to check out the housing market in our neighborhood and ended up making a bid. Tomorrow, if…
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Just My Type of Site
i love typography cites 15 examples of typographic excellence in web design. A List Apart, ShaunInman.com, FontShop, Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, and BearskinRug Shop lead a pack of inspiring sites worth studying.
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The King of Web Standards
A new article in Business Week might help designers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.
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It’s a dirty job…
And we hope you’ll take it. Happy Cog Philadelphia seeks a fabulous project manager. Must communicate superbly, value great work and great client relationships, respect deadlines and the creative process, enjoy Basecamp and love Philadelphia.…
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Hi, Mom!
In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.
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Eight points for better e-mail relationships
Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…