Design
Show Your <body>
April 8, 2008, 9:55 AM | 0 Comments
It’s time for the 3rd annual CSS Naked Day! I am again participating in this year’s web standards awareness “event” and baring all in the name of web standards awareness. As of right now, my site is a little… uhm… free.
Why I still can’t use Safari
December 21, 2007, 8:11 AM | 1 Comment
It’s been just over a year since I made the full time switch to Mac and my software tastes have definitely evolved some since I first posted my list of frequently used applications a while back. Sometime soon, I’ll probably revise that list, but for now I just wanted to touch on one application that I still can’t use on a regular basis. Safari.
Web Directions North 2008
October 17, 2007, 7:44 AM | 0 Comments
Web Directions North is coming back to Vancouver, Canada for the second straight year! Last year I was fortunate enough to attend the conference and I really hope I can make it again this winter.
Briefly
September 8, 2007, 11:04 AM | 0 Comments
There’s a good chance that you’ve already heard about this from some of the other sites that you frequent, but on the off chance that you haven’t, I thought I’d point it out just in case. On Labour Day, Khoi Vinh and Liz Danzico launched a great new design opinion site called A Brief Message. Rather than trying to explain what the site is all about myself, I’ll just echo what came straight from the horse’s mouth:
Takin’ it All Off for CSS Naked Day
March 31, 2007, 11:30 PM | 1 Comment
It’s that time of year again, time for the 2nd annual CSS Naked Day! If you’ve been following my feed you will have noticed the link to the CSS Naked Day website a couple weeks back. Well, Dustin’s accepting signups now for those who want to take part this year.
Web Directions North: Day 2
February 14, 2007, 8:44 PM | 0 Comments
Day 2 of Web Directions North picked up where day 1 left off and was another great day packed full of inspiring speakers and good times.
The opening keynote for day 2 was a great talk about designing for lifestyle by Kelly Goto (that’s pronounced ‘Go Toe’ in case you’re wondering). The main point Kelly talked about was design that mimics physical environments, such as the iPhone, touch screens and more.
Icons Galore
December 21, 2006, 10:57 PM | 7 Comments
Yesterday Adobe unveiled part of their new branding strategy for CS3 (Creative Suite version 3) and already there has been a lot of talk (and mock) about Adobe’s strategy behind these icons. Some of the reaction is positive, but most of it seems to be negative, which begs the question: is Adobe making a mistake here?
Makin’ it worse: Packers.com redesign
September 1, 2006, 5:55 PM | 0 Comments
Yesterday the Green Bay Packers launched their latest redesign of Packers.com, the official website of the Green Bay Packers franchise. At first I was excited to hear about the redesign, hoping that they would improve upon their 2005 redesign, which was a giant step forward. I’m sad to say however, that the new version of Packers.com is a step backwards in many aspects.
Site Redesign: Design Phase
August 6, 2006, 11:55 AM | 0 Comments
In my limited design experience, I’ve come to realize that the hardest part of any re-design (or any new project for that matter) is deciding on the look and feel of the site. Truer words could not be said about the road I took to come up with the new design for this site. It took me three completely different design iterations to finally come up with something that I wanted to stick with and develop. The process was long and drawn out, lasting two and a half months and getting squeezed into whatever free time I could find while preparing to move into our new house.
New MSN.com = Yahoo!?
May 15, 2006, 7:41 PM | 2 Comments
I was browsing around the other day when I stumbled across the new MSN.com. Now, originally I didn’t think much of it because it looks very similar to the old version (or current version at the time of this writing) of MSN.
It wasn’t until today that I felt a little déjà vu though when I went to the Yahoo! home page and was reminded of that new Beta version of MSN. Perhaps I’ve been under a rock for a while, but I can’t help but notice how similar these new designs look. In my defense, I never use Yahoo.com, I never really have. I just have never found their site to offer me better products or services than other sites - but that’s hardly the point of this.
Welcome to May
May 1, 2006, 9:03 PM | 1 Comment
It’s hard to believe that it’s already May 1st. Even counting the first 4 months of 2005 (in which I was not only enduring my last semester of college, but also preparing for my wedding, searching for apartments and weighing career options), this has been the busiest 4 months in memory by far.
So here’s a run down of what’s been going on in my life lately, and why the posts around here have been few and far between.
We’re Going Streaking!
April 3, 2006, 5:35 PM | 4 Comments
OK, I don’t mean this in the literal sense obviously - let me explain. On Wednesday April 5th I will be taking part in the first annual CSS Naked Day. Dustin Diaz has come up with the idea that on April 5th, hundreds of blogs will streak around the internet to promote web standards and usability.
Many popular bloggers will be taking part in this exercise including Dustin Diaz, Mike Davidson, and Nathan Smith to name a few. I thought I’d join in the fun and strip my site of all style for one day, all in the name of accessibility. So don’t be alarmed when you come to my site on Wednesday and it looks a little… uhm… bare.
February’s Random Thoughts
February 27, 2006, 10:05 PM | 0 Comments
February turned out to be a much busier month than I was anticipating. Despite being extremely busy though, I did manage to find time to work on the site. For those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed - you’ll notice that I’ve added the Recent Links section of the site to the feed. A lot of the other things that I’ve been working on will be launched soon.
Getting back to February, there were a lot of ideas I had to post about, but never got a chance to actually write them. Plenty of ideas, but not enough time right now. So here’s a few of the things I’ve had on my mind over the past 27 days.
A List Apart 211
January 31, 2006, 7:12 PM | 0 Comments
If you haven’t had a chance to read today’s issue, or you’ve never heard of A List Apart before… you’re missing out.
Today’s issue of A List Apart (an awesome webazine for developers) contains 2 very good articles that every web developer should put on their must-read list and immediately add to their favourites. Just a suggestion though.
Random Thoughts
January 25, 2006, 9:55 PM | 1 Comment
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a lot of things running through my brain that I felt like I wanted to share. None of them really constitute a full entry in my mind, so I’ll just post them all at once.
This is something that I know many people do on their sites from time to time and I would imagine that more and more of these entries will show up here in the coming months as well. Wait and see…
Redesign Coming Soon
Well, I said way back when that I had wanted to give this site a facelift, but I didn’t really know when it would happen. I’m happy to say that the redesign is in progress, almost complete and will probably be uploaded this weekend. New site design, new logo, and new posts that actually relate to web development will all be coming in the near future! Check back often.
Microsoft is on the Standards Train
January 7, 2006, 11:57 PM | 0 Comments
It started earlier this year with Microsoft’s (mostly) standards-based redesign of MSN.com. Now, it’s nice to see that Microsoft is continuing in that vein by designing their new Windows Vista homepage using a standards-based design.
What’s even nicer is that the homepage is actually quite attractive (unlike MSN.com). It doesn’t have a whole lot of content in there yet, but it’s a good start so far. The markup isn’t terribly incredible (no lists for links, etc.) and it doesn’t validate, but that’s not really the point here. As we all know, validation is not the number one priority. Accessibility is.
Reebok’s Monopoly
October 22, 2005, 7:14 PM | 0 Comments
I’ve been meaning to post something about this for a while now, and maybe the title is a little strong, but the NHL has been back for almost a month now and I’ve noticed several new things about the game, and about it’s marketing. Reebok is all over the place!
Reebok (starting this year) is the official apparel provider for the NHL, which means they’re responsible for providing every team with several different jerseys. Each team usually has at least 3 different jerseys. A home jersey, a road jersey and at least one alternate.