Web design

July 20, 2009

New look for heisel.org

A run­down on my new “less is less” design and my use of the Bal­samiq wire­frame tool and the Blue­print CSS framework.

January 10, 2009

Django Template Development review

You wouldn’t know it by look­ing at this site, or the HTML behind it, but [...]

December 31, 2008

Wii Fitness Coach: A missed conversion

Today, some­thing totally unprece­dented hap­pened. I. Clicked. On. An. Ad. I was updat­ing my weight and [...]

December 4, 2007

Let’s not forget about graceful degradation

Far be it from me to be a nat­ter­ing nabob of neg­a­tiv­ity, but in all [...]

November 21, 2007

Zeldman gets it right

Haunt­ingly beau­ti­ful and inspir­ingly cor­rect, a must read for all Web pro­fes­sion­als: Under­stand­ing Web Design

May 16, 2006

Best sig on AIM today

“The user-​generated con­tent would create the site.” (via Laura)

November 16, 2005

What’s wrong with saying “the midwest”?

It’s not as if the mid­west con­tains America’s liver and large intestine…

June 23, 2005

Checking out Odeo

Wherein I do a brief review of the new pod­cast­ing ser­vice Odeo.

June 18, 2005

Dreamhost has Rails, Fastcgi

Wherein I recount with glee that Dreamhost now sup­ports Rails and FastCGI

June 6, 2005

del.​icio.us has a new look

If you haven’t del.icio.us’d any­thing yet today, check out their new inter­face: It’s got a [...]

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