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Test your skillz: Arial or Helvetica?
I got 10 out of 10! Admittedly, though, I guessed on the two all-caps examples. Spotting the difference in Helvetia and Arial is easy if there are lowercase letters, but all-caps makes it pretty tricky. The dead-giveaway characters are lowercase “a” and ”
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Who Cares about Semantics Anyway?
Dave Shea on why semantics are important — and why they don’t seem very important to those looking for shortcuts.
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Yet another web browser standards support chart
Very complete list of web standards supported/unsupported features for MSIE6, Opera 8, and Firefox 1.0. Too bad it doesn’t include Safari — this is a nearly-perfect resource.
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10 Bad Project Warning Signs
Andy nails it with this one. Great tips for any freelancer or small studio.
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Krystle Fleming, Digital Devil
Krystle Fleming, one of my favorite flickr’ers, has brought back her photo blog. Her trademark bright, contrasty style makes even the most mundane subject look surreal. Definitely check out her site, as well as her
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Design Blogger Mashup
How well do you know your designer blogs? B. Adam (Howell) put together a sort-of “Where’s Waldo” of design elements. Fun stuff.
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More on gluing stuff together in Entourage
I stopped using Entourage long ago, but he’s right: it’s this sort of functionality that is sorely missing from Apple’s PIM suite (Mail, iCal, Address Book, etc.). I can’t tell you how many times per day I want to link an e-mail message to a To-Do or an e
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Shana Hiatt retires from WPT, is replaced by this blondie.
Ehh, I prefer Shana.
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And now it’s time for a breakdown.
This site has been in need of a mass overhaul for some time. My code has been messy (by my current standards), my design was old and dull, my directories are full of orphaned files, etc. However, I simply don’t have the time to do a full-on redesign right now. So, I’ve taken the “live redesign” approach.
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Xyle Scope
Incredibly handy OS X web development tool for CSS designers.
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Exceptionally Negative
Dans tells us why it’s sometimes it’s better to treat the exception, rather than the rule.
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Stan offers up some motivation tips…
Being a bit more “on my own” lately (in a personal sense, not a business one like JSM), I’ve been actively trying to do some of these things myself. In particular the bits on exercise, organization, and goal-setting. I don’t always like being on my own, b
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Ten for Derek
Accessibility maven Derek Featherstone answers the latest ten inquires from Russ. Good read.
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The new Google.com, portal style.
Google portal-izes. You knew it was coming. You just thought it would happen when people actually liked portals.
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SilentBobSpeaks.com
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, etc.) has a blog. Fun.
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FontShop’s “I am…” gallery
People posting images of themselves with the text “I am” and the name of their favorite typeface. personally, I am DIN, but I’ve not yet taken the time to make an image that says so. What typeface are you?
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Learn to dance with Napoleon Dynamite
Flippin’ sweet, gosh!
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Technological Excuses: A Rant
I missed this entry by Keith in early May, but it’s so true. “Technology shouldn’t make business decisions.” Amen, brother. A-f’ing-men.
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CSS Scrollable Table with Fixed Header
Whilst looking for something completely different, I came across this, which is certainly not new, but is nice, nonetheless.
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Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
German designer Vitaly Friendman has compiled a huge set of web design and development resources. This will come in very handy. Well done, Vitaly!
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Yellow fade effect for dummies
Step-by-step on how to create the 37 Signals-style yellow fade effect.
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ChicagoCrime.org
Incredible resource for Chicagoland residents, and one damn cool web app to boot. Brilliant integration of Google Maps and CPD crime report data.
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Spotlight Metadata Attributes
Spotlight: The Complete Masterworks, volume one.
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How to make your own RSS screensaver in Tiger
Just what it says it is.
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50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod
Jason breaks it down for ya.
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Getting my meme on (a.k.a. musical baton)
Well, it seems that Mike D. and Ryan Brill have passed me the proverbial baton. Thanks to them. Hooray for memes. So, here goes:
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Mary “cracking” up.
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Mary “cracking” up.
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Mary on crack.
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Mary on crack.
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Textarea tools
Handy stuff here for making more useful/usable text input fields.
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Becky and Maryrenee
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Maryrenee and Becky
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Maryrenee and Becky
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Maryrenee and Some Random Girl
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Maryrenee and Some Random Girl
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Apple suggests KDE switch to WebCore
I had to say this here, because it’s getting reported incorrectly all over the place. This is Apple suggesting that the KDE team use Apple’s more developed version of KHTML, called “WebCore,” rather than KDE’s own version. It is NOT Apple dumping KHTML fo
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Boolean OR, NOT in Spotlight
This is handy. It lets you perform more advanced queries straight from the search box, without having to invoke the Smart Folder/Spotlight full GUI. For example, I could search for “michelle(-foster)” if I wanted to quickly see documents whose content con
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Rebooted: Niggle
I absolutely loved this blog when it came out, and then it went dormant for almost a year. It’s back with a brand new bag, baby. Looks hot — let’s hope the content keeps a’flowin’.
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And all that (new) Malarkey
Andy Clarke’s redesign is wide, colorful, fluid, and retro. And it’s pretty, too.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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