Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

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 we [...]

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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?

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Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Designing for Windows on a Mac

This Macworld article led me to a nice utility called Virtue Desktops. Makes switching between Win XP and OS X really simple.

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