After a summer of absorbing web techniques, from both my internship at DTP and Google research, I’ve successfully built two websites using WordPress as a backbone. And I feel pretty dang awesome about it, considering that is most likely better than 98% of my peers at Tech. One of those websites is this one; and [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Underground Graphics
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Wordle.net
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Ryan Colgin sent me a link today to check out Wordle.net. It’s a tag cloud generator that pulls content from your blog’s RSS feed. The image to the right was generated from my blog, using 25 words and the mostly horizontal layout. Pretty neat. I’ve been working all weekend and most of last night on [...]
Pap-Bomb
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Local photographer has an Egyptian fetish. Joshua Lee Studio Note: Papyrus must be activated on your machine to view the abomination.
Form Fun
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008I found a nice tutorial on forms today at work, while building a client’s website (who, most obviously, needed a form). Interesting finds were the <fieldset> and <legend> tags, which help visually separate different categories of information. Having done a research paper on information graphics, those pieces of markup lit a smile. Another bit of [...]
The Daily Monster
Monday, August 4th, 2008Stefan G. Bucher, author and duke/illustrator of all things monster, can be seen doodling creatures on his blog (344design.typepad.com). I’ve been toying with the idea of posting illustrations myself; and Mr. Bucher has, inadvertently and unknowingly, challenged this idea. At the same time, I don’t dare compare myself to his expertise and craftsmanship. Being a [...]
