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Alexaholic: Website Statistics and Traffic Graphs
Fun mashup site lets you compare traffic of multiple sites. Compete aganist your friends, or pit rivals against one another. This particular link suggests that Django is taking over the Rails kingdom! Hehe
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The Style Contest: Prizes
Nice prizes on this Movable Type design contest. Too bad I’m just finishing up my new site — in which I ditch MT for my own Django-based app. :)
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The Office (NBC) “The More You Know” PSA spoofs
I caught a few of these during last night’s episode. Some of them are damn funny.
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Bela Fleck in Kansas City
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Bela Fleck in Kansas City
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Wired News: Apple’s Finest Flip-Flops
Classic turn-arounds and mind-changes from Apple for its 30th b-day. I think the real lesson is how brilliant Jobs is at making his mistakes look like “I meant to do that.”
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stu nicholls | cross browser multi page photo gallery
Clever CSS-only image gallery.
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Wired News: 30 Years of Apple Products
A gallery of pretty much every single product Apple has released in it’s 30 year history. Happy birthday, Apple.
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How to Drive your Website Developer Insane: A Primer
Funny stuff, and so true.
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Wilson Miner on 37signals anti-functional specs diatribe
Wilson says what most of us think, but (as per usual) says it more elloquenty than most of us can. His point is that functional specs, much as you might hate them, are a necessary evil in larger, more political orginazations.
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Map of LOST Island from last night’s episode
Warning: don’t look at this if you haven’t seen the episode. That means you, Inman.
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A Guide to CSS Support in Email
Incredibly thorough and insanely useful. A complete guide showing what mail clients support what CSS elements. include PC, Mac, and web-based e-mail clients.
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Famous Rapper Or Dead Author?
Hilarious. Be sure to read the correct answers.
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Learn Web Design the right way | Supporting site for Sitepoint book by Ian Lloyd
Looks like a lovely beginner’s HTML and CSS book. This is an important niche, in my mind, because we’re getting to the point where there are people getting into web design that haven’t even done is the wrong way before.
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Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood
Facinating article on a the current crop of people around my age, and how they are killing the generation gap. I, for one, hope my daughter agrees.
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Wired News: Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever
A great list, but missing one of my favorites: “You go to the computer to turn your brain on; you go to the TV to turn your brain off.”
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Major media company to launch 15 new Django sites
Scripps, a major media company with newspapers in around 20 different markets, has licensed Ellington, the Django-powered CMS, from World Online (my current employer).
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Cameron and Stan: National Gazette Logo Design
I sort of prefer the all-blackletter (with Cameron’s reworked “N”), but the final version is great, nonetheless. Jason’s ligs really make it. I’ll be very interesting to me, as a news website designer, to see where they go with the Gazette!
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The Typography of Girls’ Asses
Yes, it’s “typography,” and not “topography” (which would possibly be more interesting). Unfortantley, there are no photos.
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SXSW panel podcast release schedule
The fact that they have a “release schedule” instead of just relelasing them when they’re available in sort of amusiing to me. Nonetheless, it’s good to know when I expect to ones I want.
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456 Berea Street: The target attribute and opening new windows
I will never understand why the same people who harp on standards all the time say it’s okay to use invlid markup, as long as you have the DOM insert it for you. That having been said, Roger’s blog rocks, and if you don’t read it, you should.
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ideasonideas: Designers must write
The only way this could be more true is if it was entitled “everyone must write.” Writing is an essential skill that can help make you better at almost everything you do.
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Thank You For Smoking - Opening titles
Absolutley beautiful design work in the opening titles of this new film. Must see.
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Numark to debut iDJ2 iPod mixer with pitch control
More details on the new iDJ2. Includes scratch pads, pitch control, looping, cueing, ability to record back to the iPod. Plus, it uses only one iPod, instead of two. Looks really sweet. Can’t tell if it has automatic beat-matching or not. No word on prici
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Numark iDJ2
Now we’re talking. The original iDJ was just a gimmick, with no real useful DJing features, and requiring two iPods. This new model looks like it might be something I’d actually want to use. Really anxious to see some reviews of this thing.
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OK/Cancel on Ugly Websites
Excellent piece on why some ugly websites (Google, eBay, MySpace, craigslist) are successful. It has a lot to do with being first to market and the nature of “community lock-in” — probably also the reason AIM is tops, by the way.
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Scobleizer - The role of anti-marketing design
Sorry, Scoble, but MySpace is popular despite it’s uglyness, not because of it. And, please don’t say Google and eBay are ugly and then note that big companies don’t make ugly pages. Huh?
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15 Best Skylines in the World
Fun to look at. Panaroamic photos of the world’s most impressive urban skylines. Based on these images, Singapore is my personal favorite.
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Snook on Targeting IE7 using CSS
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Why Macs Suck - Google Video
A great example of just how idiotic the rest of the world is when it comes to Macs. Has even one of these pitfalls ever happened to you, Mac users? Me neither. Not even remotely funny.
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CNN.com redesigns front page
Huge improvement.
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Skin divers playing with dolphins and a whale shark in Honduras
So. Freaking. Jealous.
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Forget the spinners: Pimpstar rims are the new hotness
I can’t decide if this is the coolest or stupidest thing I’ve ever seen before.
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Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development
Lately I have been doing this a lot more in my own process — skipping Photoshop/Illustrator and going straight to HTML/CSS. Everyone’s different, so it may not be for you, but it works well for me in most cases.
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Happy birthday, Haley!
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Little drummer girl
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Little drummer girl
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Microformats: hResume
As I’m currently working on a redesign/reimplementation of jeffcroft.com (with a Django-powered backend!), I need to re-markup my resume. Seems like a good time to take advantage of a Microformat.
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Nice article on Steve Jobs in Vanity Fair
“…it turns out that Jobs is not marginal, or eccentric, or even fanciful at all. His is the at-one-with-the-American-consumer golden gut. He’s the ultimate media guy.”
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boobr
By popular request. No, I didn’t do it. Jacob did. Not much right now, but perhaps it will become an aggregator of photos tagged with ‘boobr?”
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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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