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Friday, April 20th, 2007

Tennessee Library Association Conference

Just got back from the TLA Conference in Chattanooga. I had a good time, saw several people that I hadn’t seen in a few years. The presentations were good, Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect was the keynote speaker. Sadly I didn’t get to hear her speak since the room was standing-room only by the time [...]

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Houston, we have templates…

Yep the templates I talked about a bit ago are out. Actually they were released Friday afternoon. Creative Services has a nice site up for them, and this template roll-out is a lot more pleasant and well received than the one in 2003.
Once again, Darren has a post about the design of the [...]

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Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Templates, web design, and work

When I started my job at Hodges, I knew 95% of the designs I came up would have to fit in the UT template which is ugly, brown/beige, and table based, with minimal CSS. When the templates appeared in 2003, Matt Grayson and I were working on a new site design for SIS, so [...]

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Friday, January 26th, 2007

Web design pet peeve

“Click here” Why must people says things like click here on a web page link? It’s on the Web Pages that Suck list of things not to do. It’s on Jakob Nielsen’s list of Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. 2005 people!
I’ll admit I’m no usability genius, I learned the click here thing [...]

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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Looking for an OS X Window sizing utility

I use Sizer on the Windows side of things quite a bit. It’s freeware that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. It can also tell you how large a window is.
Anybody know of a utility like this for the Mac?

2 Comments » - Posted in Information Technology and Web Design by Dan


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