Robert Denton - Media and Design Consulting

Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for the 'Notes' Category

Events (Bowdoin News)

Friday, August 20th, 2004

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 [...]

Site Awareness Pages

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

Or better yet…
Colorado State University

Portfolio (Piet Niederhausen)

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

Portfolio (Piet Niederhausen)

Good example of a web style guide for the Georgetown U. in his portfolio section.

Came across his site from either the webdesign or uwebd list.

This kind of web developer is what we could all become given the resources. The strict separation of programmer / designer / content producer has its place but [...]

How to cover an IE windowed control (Select Box, ActiveX Object, etc.) with a DHTML layer.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

How to cover an IE windowed control (Select Box, ActiveX Object, etc.) with a DHTML layer.

Not a wholly CSS solution but this article is a good pointer to why you can not cover a form element with any element you wish to make visible, most often a drop down menu, in Windows Internet Explorer.

There is [...]

CSS Menus

Friday, May 28th, 2004

CSS Menu Roundup

menus

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

the blender menus are cool.

rather than remain on a struggle to achieve x-plat css menus (with a bit of js thrown in for that damned IE) why not do old fashion hidden/revealed layers? the layers could be populated with lists and that achieves some measure of accessibility. in fact, the layers could be present for [...]

highllamas.com

Monday, April 5th, 2004

highllamas.com

Add this to the main library. Basically, consolidate any purchased music off of the computer’s hard drive and stick it on the external drive.