Robert Denton

Staggering work of genius from Portland, Maine – Gardener, Photographer, Designer, Taco Maker, Birder, Biker, Wine Merchant

Archive for the ' Design ' Category

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

What is Feedreader? | Feedreader – Free RSS / ATOM newsreader Add this to the RSS page. Also, don’t forget that RSS readers are for geeks and people who think they use RSS. IMO, long range, RSs will be for sharing information between sites and not to scrub many sites. Rather, design matters — even […]

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

overshadowed Great looking street photography, gallery done in MT.

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Jeffrey20Veen3A20State-of-the-art20interactivity3F These are great “well duh” points. I’m surprised he came upon so much work counter to this spirit.

Speaking of Usability

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Email Newsletter Usability: 127 design guidelines for subscription interfaces, newsletter content and account maintenance based on user research Nielsen Norman Group Report: Email Newsletter Usability: 127 design guidelines for subscription interfaces, newsletter content and account maintenance based on user research Why doesn’t the NNGroup put a date on their content? I am extremely anxious about […]

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Nifty Corners Rounded corners via CSS+js. I don’t like the extra moving part myself… prefer to stick to weird nests of divs.

The Bowdoin web site and search engines, SEO case study

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Build Web Pages for Search Engines (Bowdoin) I quickly outline what a good web page built for search engines is about. Visit most pages on the web site to find out, especially in the News section. Building a high result web page is not difficult. You can not however obtain search results for content that […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 […]

The Selfish Class

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

The Selfish Class This paper takes a code%u2019s-eye view of software reuse and evolution. A code-level artifact must be able to attract programmers in order to survive and flourish. The paper addresses the question of what an object might do to encourage programmers to (re-)use it, as opposed to using some other object, or building […]

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Designers Toolbox Weird — online tool box that replaces some of the stand alone tools. Will they sell enough ads to make up the cost?

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Screenfont.ca: All about fonts for captioning and subtitling (2005.02.16) Screenfont.ca is part of an upcoming project to research and develop a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.