Robert Denton

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

Archive for the ' Design ' Category

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monday, March 6th, 2006

About This Site – above the influence I may have posted this already but this site incorporates a good idea and ad campaign on healthy behavior into a great presentation.

UI problem or PEBKAC?

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Accidental e-mail congratulates 7,000 on admission to UC Berkeley law school – Computerworld I have no idea what mass email tool Berkeley Law School uses but this is a telling tale. Are there enough warnings in the UI to prevent a user from accidentally committing to a grave error? Or, does the problem exist between […]

Birds online

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Birds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology Excellent site! If you click through to a story there is a link for an Interactive Analyzer.

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

DesignAbout 2005 Remeber those 6 billion other folks who don’t stare at computer screens?

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Page Source Order & Accessibility Study on some current usability practices and how they actually work in the field.

BBC – The Feed Factory – Home

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

BBC – The Feed Factory – Home Great site about using RSS. Nice example of how communication to visitors is important and the BBC takes it very seriously. I’m still unconvinced that it means a whole lot to the average individual. Our audiences might start expecting it more and more as popular places like the […]

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

ATI Technologies Inc. ATI uses Brainjar code for their dhtml menus. A lot heavier than our CSS menus, but, they work pretty nice over a flash element. Instead I chose to hide the “beauty” div containing the flash element. No worries.

About.com switching to WordPress

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Photo Matt – About.com switching to WordPress (WP) This is huge. When I learned that About.com used MovableType (MT) for their CMS it was ammo for using MT more around our site to allow for easy content updating. The differences between the two are enormous and I’ll still use MT where I want the logic […]

Two things about meta-data

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Google and the Meta Description Tag – Update Here is a write up about an experiment to peek into the Google algorithm with regard to meta-description tags in web pages. It’s a good resource. Speaking of meta data, why doesn’t this place date their content? I can’t stand not knowing when the content was published. […]