Robert Denton - Media and Design Consultant, Web Designer

Encyclopedia: List of Holy Cities

This is a fascinating site. Not bad data presentation—I’m not sure it would raise Tufte but hey…

A Primer of Visual Cliche

Not certain my title makes any sense but this site is a fabulous collection of old adverts showing the use of visual cliche to strengthen a message.

Can’t wait to pour over them all.

I wonder how this can play out in a design methodology that isn’t necessarily based in the same [...]

@import url(/includes/global_new/tables.css);
Robert Denton – June 2002

Tables styled with CSS rules are much more efficient, if done well, than the old method of using font tags, a lot of color tags, and more…These tables are forward looking in the use of CSS but also degrade with a bit of grace for older browsers (NS4).
Instead [...]

Events (Bowdoin News)

Hermod was the name of one of Odin’s ravens that flew around the world and brought back all the news to Odin.

Well turns out David was wrong.

Hermod was the messenger to the gods.

Update:

The link should just be www.bowdoin.edu/events/

Nothing to do with some cryptic URL. We are about friendly, easy to remember addresses!

Maybe [...]

And a fancy hammer at that [persistent.info]

Alright, I don’t want to turn this into a general geo-politics blog but this is too funny to pass up.

Telegraph | News | German men told they can no longer stand and deliver

German men are being shamed into urinating while sitting down by a gadget which is saving millions of women from cleaning up [...]

Cornell.edu Redesign

searchhi: Automatic search word highlighting after web searches

Inside Al Qaeda’s Hard Drive (Signal vs. Noise)

MagyarorszÌÁg.hu – DOBOZ

Or better yet…
Colorado State University

Nixon – The Metal Dork

The formidable Kalsey Consulting gives us Rounded corners in CSS. These have trouble in my cascade hell.

A single image method I just might adopt… http://www.coonens.com/design/article/2/

Check out Macromedia’s Contribute page with rounded corner boxes which appears to be based on ThrashBox’s implementation “Sliding Doors” BoxÐ Rounded Corners for All. Also found at DOBOZ.

These things pop up [...]

ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art

MediaWiki feature list – Wikimedia’s Meta wiki

A better wiki? I sure like the overall business of this wiki implementation.