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Underground Graphics

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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 [...]

Firefox 3 Awesome Bar

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I’ll have to do a more extensive report on all of Firefox’s new release, but one complaint I’ve heard frequently is that the Awesome Bar highlights the entire URL when the user single-clicks, forcing web developers to double-click to edit the path. So for those frustrated with fidgety fingers and considering reverting back to Firefox [...]

Wordle.net

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Ryan 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, 2008

Local 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, 2008

I 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, 2008

Stefan 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 [...]