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Entries About Design

A Hack for Scripting Revert in InDesign 04/26/07 10:00 AM

Apparently InDesign doesn’t have a revert scripting method. In the process of developing scripts, it would be very handy to…

Notes on XML and Scripting InDesign 12/15/06 8:03 AM

I’ve been working on a catalog in InDesign CS2 using data pulled from a database. Documentation on automation is rather,…

Entourage 2004 “Show in Groups” Bug 04/13/06 7:14 AM

Entourage 2004, which I’m forced to use at work due to the Exchange server with IMAP supported turned off, has…

Pressed Links in CSS Navigation Lists 07/06/05 9:53 AM

There are some great tutorials out there about using unordered lists and css to mark up and present navigation bars,…

HFES 06/22/05 1:01 PM

It’s so sad when a new site that I designed goes live and there are countless problems with it. Such…

Netscape 8 and sIFR 05/19/05 10:06 AM

First off, who beat Netscape 8 with the ugly stick? It’s the most horrendously designed application I’ve seen in a…

Splitting Lists into Two Columns with Javascript 02/17/05 4:51 PM

Inspired by A List Apart’s article Bulleted Lists: Multi-Layered Fudge, I decided that a better way to make a two…

Delinking the Current Page in MovableType 01/28/05 2:17 PM

A page shouldn’t link to itself. It’s a general usability rule and just good practice. It’s always bothered me that…

Redesign in Progress 01/21/05 4:34 PM

As is the fashion these days in more fashionable corners of the web, I’m doing a public redesign, so please…

Add Label Click Support to Safari 12/19/04 10:18 PM

Safari’s lack of full support for the <label> element has always bothered me. You can’t click the label and focus…

CNN Issues 12/07/04 3:07 PM

The CNN site that I check has been having some issues lately (although the normal site isn’t affected): Looks like…

Cliff Keen Live 09/09/04 4:21 PM

Finally, the Cliff Keen Athletic site is live. There’s still a bunch of minor issues to fix, but it’s looking good and it’s worlds better than their old site.

Flash and Perl 06/16/04 10:45 AM

Just an observation: there is very little information online about using perl .cgi as a backend for Flash applications. There’s…

Ligatures in Safari 1.2 02/25/04 5:06 PM

Hidden away in Safari’s Debug Menu, there’s an option entitled “Use ATSU,” which turns on OS X’s ATSUI character rendering…

At Last 05/19/03 12:50 PM

I don’t know what to do with myself… After three long years, the second web project I ever started working…

CSS Keywords and IE 6 Doctype Switching 05/08/03 3:16 PM

Discovered an interesting bug—or “feature,” depending on your mindset—in Internet Explorer 6. When the rendering mode is set to standards…

At the Summit 04/07/03 3:03 PM

I just found out that I won a Summit Award for BankingWebsites.com. Now that I’m Creative Director and all, I…

Safari Autofix 02/13/03 9:29 AM

I spent about an hour the other night trying to work out some layout bugs in Safari for the new…

Aesthetic Incompatibility 01/25/03 6:57 PM

Aesthetics is sometimes an insurmountable obstacle when dealing to with two groups of people: clients and students. I have strong…

City of Ann Arbor Live 01/23/03 8:36 AM

The City of Ann Arbor site went live last night. Designed by yours truly, and implemented by the City, including…

A New Classy Section 01/12/03 10:56 PM

I stopped procrastinating and finished up this semester’s class site tonight. I pretty much decided to stick with last year’s…

Curly Quotes 11/26/02 9:22 AM

Even though I’m in the midst of a fairly substantial redesign, I’ve made some improvements to the use of quotation…

Comments Form Layout 11/15/02 3:56 PM

One of my recent favorites, Antipixel, has a discussion about the layout of the comments form in MoveableType. Now that…

Arbor Springs 11/07/02 4:01 PM

Arbor Springs finally went live today after a year and a half. It’s under budget to boot. Now if Metro…

Wired on CSS 10/11/02 8:57 AM

Wired News redesigned in XHTML and CSS, and it looks pretty good. Only problem is that it has some validation…

Swapping Foreground and Background Colors in Photoshop 07/30/02 4:19 PM

Simple thing in Photoshop that I finally figured out: reversing a single color logo, ie if it’s a blue logo…

Fonts Are Fun 07/26/02 2:17 PM

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black…

Aesthetic Usability 07/14/02 11:14 AM

Donald Norman: Attractive things work better. An article detailing the role of aesthetics in usability….

German Engineering Meets Seven-Ply Hardrock Maple 07/09/02 12:35 PM

I’m sorry. That is not a skateboard….

Marina City 07/03/02 8:12 AM

The coolest buildings in Chicago. They’re so mod and space-age. I wish all buildings looked like these……

Flash Wars 06/13/02 11:01 PM

The kids are doing some crazy stuff with flash these days. Ever since the Web Standards Project relaunched, there’s been…

Spring Updates 06/03/02 4:10 PM

I made a few updates around here over the last few days. I redesigned the portfolio and added notes from…

DBD 2002 05/15/02 8:21 AM

It’s been too long… The new Diamond Bullet site went live yesterday morning after many trials and tribulations. There are…

No Text in Site 02/15/02 9:38 PM

edesign magazine should stick to print….

CSS and Minimalism 01/29/02 9:54 AM

So there’s this raging debate on the new css-discuss mailing list about this article. There have been some fairly well…

Entries Everywhere 01/18/02 8:51 AM

I made my first entry to the Mirror Project. Moe Sports Shop, purveyor of fine U of M paraphenilia, has…

The /imac/windowsization of America 01/17/02 9:33 AM

My orange juice container suddenly looks like windows XP….

More Working Away 01/16/02 10:51 PM

I put up some new designs for Washtenaw county today. It feels good to actually have some work to do…

Balance 11/11/01 7:08 PM

Where is the balance between the technical end and the art end of this thing for me? Can the pursuit…

Thoughts on Content 11/09/01 1:17 PM

Some days this thing seems like such a fucking joke. This site, this whole web thing. What does it have…

Critique 10/24/01 8:08 AM

Sometimes I think that the whole web “community” is way too nice for its own good. Everytime anyone asks for…