Agonizingly slow redesign in process…
Stopdesign | Using Background-Image to Replace Text
Nice roundup of image replacement techniques for keeping typographic control over headers yet still delivering text for the viewers who can’t see images.
Very interesting and probably the first time this has raised its head in the wild.
Village of Pittsford web site
It does extend the reading area while allowing for a glory shot. Would be very interesting to determine if anyone uses the feature..
http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/PhotoMatt.net
information architecture for designers – the site for the book
New book to buy?
This book will likely be a lot like Don’t Make Me Think! which provides a lot of basic reminders with many unique connections made as well. It claims to be a practicum for IA rather than a study of theory.
To boot there’s [...]
new york city photobloggers | apple store soho
If nothing else this site serves as a placeholder for several links to photo blogs.
mezzoblue – Positioning and the Cascade
Positioning and the Cascade
Something to add to the library? In the next few days I want to get my sandbox in better order. Perhaps over this weekend my puttering work will be about my tool kit rather than silly sites at the college.
OJR article: What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive
What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive
Long, haven’t read it yet but the thought present in the title hits home. I read newspapers but find the web to be a few days ahead and more accurate through triangulation of information.
Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties
Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties
3-col layout via CSS
3-col layout via CSS
Purports to fix the column length problem in CSS but I am skeptical. The best solution may be to simply add a background image to a fixed column width.
Taste Whisky With Slate – And discover the wonders of peat. By David Edelstein
Taste Whisky With Slate
And discover the wonders of peat.
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld
Recent works by the secretary of defense.
Interview with Doug Turner and Chris Hofmann of the Minimo Project – NewMobileComputing.com
Minimo is a web browser based on the gecko engine targeting PDA and mobile devices. Very cool. Current it is running fine on a 64mb iPaq, the target is 32-64mb. The browser brings full support for web standards whereas IE on the PocketPC [...]
KQED | Public TV, Radio and Interactive
Wow. Look at the colors. I also like the transition between the top features box and the right become a member box. The use of dots as a shading element, circlecons and one as a header(!) on the info box.
Drill into say the news events area and check out [...]
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