Mashable
2007.10.17 08:12
Mashable has a list of resources for development you may find useful. After you get through the list, 250 in all, spend some time surfing around the site; I am sure you will find more useful info.
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Macheist 2
2007.07.06 15:51
Laying my claim
2007.05.29 14:46
For some reason I never actually claimed my own blog with Technorati…hmm go figure. If you are interested, here is a link to my Technorati Profile.
twitter me this…
2007.04.15 19:00
Just signed up with twitter due to some peer pressure and am investigating the value of this service. So far it is amusing and I have an idea or two on how it might be valuable to some businesses. If you want to add me as a friend, click here.
Special Olympics Florida
2007.01.22 08:00
Special Olympics Florida is a charity that I have been involved with over the past year and half through work. "Special Olympics is a worldwide movement where one can act locally, but make a global impact. With over 300,000 competitions around the world each year, with training taking place every day, with family leaders, athlete leaders and volunteers extending our message every day, Special Olympics is no longer just an event. We are a movement, inviting the world not just to attend Games but to think, feel, and act differently about everything - to come help create a world of acceptance and inclusion for all."
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MacHeist
2006.12.11 08:21
So today is the day the final bundle has been revealed from the folks at MacHeist. If you have not been following, MacHeist has been a bit of an online scavenger hunt to get great deals (read: free) shareware apps for your trusty old OS X. The bundle they are releasing is a great list of popular software that many folks would be happy to add to their Mac. They are also donating 25% of the bundle price to a charity of your choosing, from their selected list.
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Gallery sites
2006.11.13 08:09
There seems to be an explosion of gallery sites, specifically sites geared to highlighting great work with web-standards. The mother of all these sites, in my mind, would be CSS Zen Garden; this site more than any other has showcased what good design can do when coupled with web standards.
Web Creme
CSS Mania
CSS Remix
CSSTux
Style Gala
Now I am all for promoting good work, but with the sheer number of these sites, the amount of duplication of efforts has begun to show itself. Some offer rankings, while others are just blind links to the site with nothing more than a screenshot of the site. There are, however, a couple of sites that stand out and provide more than a simple gallery of the latest and greatest. CSS Globe is hoping to add more to the conversation, as is CSS Beauty.
I think many of these sites will either have to begin offering more to their visitors, or they will lose their relevance to the design community. Providing examples of well-designed sites with no discussion on why they may be good or relevant is incomplete. As a design community, there must be a place to discuss the merits of good design and the cause + effect relationship it may have had on the project(s).
It is like grade school, where we were admonished to show our work, so we may gain some credit even if the final answer was wrong. Design is a speculative business and what I consider a fine design may not be universally held. Discussion of defined merits of a design and how it may or may not succeed in the marketplace is invaluable as we move the design community forward in the ether that is web 2.0.
Holy @$#*
2006.10.09 14:06
Google does it again. Their labs have opened up search for code. They have also opened up what could be sensitive information by indexing anything and everything with the appropriate extension. This could mean trouble for some who make their living by writing proprietary code for a living. It could also mean trouble for the rest of us, when that code incorporates sensitive information within the markup.
I am awed by Google and becoming more afraid of their power.
Some Open-Source Resources for Design
2006.08.14 07:45
One of the greatest assets that the internet and its associated online communities is the availability of open source solutions to design problems. Some of these solutions are the ready availability of code examples that can be used in your project(s) to full-scale applications that provide complete solutions for today's designers. Read More...
Some more reference sites
2006.06.20 07:55
There is always a wealth of knowledge just a few clicks away. Here are some more sites that I frequent to research projects and use as a source of inspiration while developing sites. Read More...
Fun with Flash
2006.06.05 13:46
This site just goes to show what a little imagination and a good toolset can do for you. Despite its seemingly rudimentary protagonist, this is a great bit of animation and storytelling that made me laugh out-loud. If you are okay with cartoon violence, than this is a clever animation and worth checking out.
Lost viral
2006.06.01 13:53
Webstandards links
2006.05.30 16:49
Here are some more links for some webstandard design & coding insight from some of the big brains online (these are all external links populating a new window):
A List Apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
Eric Meyer - if you do not know this man's work or his site, do yourself a favor bookmark his site and grab his books. He is one of the reasons that web standards has gained such notoriety. His knowledge is extensive and his ability to illustrate complex ideas with simple tutorials is without peer.
Tantek Çelik - here is another great leader in the field of web standards and CSS. He has certainly forgotten more about this language than I have learned.
Kurafire Network - here is some real interesting use of compliant CSS/XHTML. Faruk is a talented designer and his reputation is growing in the field.
I will add some more links at a later time. If you have any inspirational designers who you find valuable to your work, please let me know.
A List Apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
Eric Meyer - if you do not know this man's work or his site, do yourself a favor bookmark his site and grab his books. He is one of the reasons that web standards has gained such notoriety. His knowledge is extensive and his ability to illustrate complex ideas with simple tutorials is without peer.
Tantek Çelik - here is another great leader in the field of web standards and CSS. He has certainly forgotten more about this language than I have learned.
Kurafire Network - here is some real interesting use of compliant CSS/XHTML. Faruk is a talented designer and his reputation is growing in the field.
I will add some more links at a later time. If you have any inspirational designers who you find valuable to your work, please let me know.
Lightbox +
2006.05.30 16:41
Here is another great bit of code for showcasing imagery on your site. Lightbox (external link) offers a dynamic slideshow for your imagery with just a small bit of code from the prototype (external link) framework and the scriptaculous (external link) library. It works very well and provides an easy to implement and effective showcase for imagery without the overhead of Flash (not that I am bashing Flash since I work with it quite a bit).
Some folks have expanded the effect and there is a good bit of activity in the community (external link) for creating nice solutions using this method. When you need to implement something other than the standard Flash gallery, this may prove a valuable alternative.
Some folks have expanded the effect and there is a good bit of activity in the community (external link) for creating nice solutions using this method. When you need to implement something other than the standard Flash gallery, this may prove a valuable alternative.
moo.fx
2006.05.30 13:32
One of the cooler things I have recently run across. Moo.fx is an easy-to-use fast, compliant javascript effects library written with prototype.js. It provides an easy to use framework to create some nice effects to your site. There are some cool things that folks have done to extend the functionality of the code and this just further illustrates the entrepreneurial spirit of development.
Some CSS links
2006.05.30 09:48
I have been reworking some major projects and have somewhat neglected this site. In the process of working back to some measure of regularity I have found some interesting and inspirational links that others may find useful (links will open a new window):
…and of course the grand-daddy of them all
I will add some more items in the coming days.
…and of course the grand-daddy of them all
I will add some more items in the coming days.