The 2008 Survey For People Who Make Websites
My wife (who is a web developer for Duke University) recently sent me this link to the results of A List Apart's second annual survey of the web industry. It thought it was so cool, I figured I'd share it here:
Findings from The Survey For People Who Make Websites 2008
Hand Drawn Maps
The Hand Drawn Map Association is accepting submissions of hand drawn maps until April 30th. There's something very beautiful and personal about a device as utilitarian as a map when it's sketched in a notebook or a napkin. Some of the submissions remind me of the hours I spent as a teen carefully planning D&D maps (all of you born after 1980 can go look that up on wikipedia).
Pimp My Battleship: Dazzle Camouflage
Dazzle camouflage was developed during World War I. Since ships were hard to disguise against an ever-changing sea and sky, a Royal Navy marine painter named Norman Wilkinson came up patterns that would disrupt the ship's outline, making it difficult for German U-boats to target.
The Rhode Island School of Design has a permanent collection of drawings you can view online here.
You are guaranteed success if…
Phil Johnson, the founder of one of the agencies we partner with, PJA, posted a pretty profound article to the Advertising Age Small Agency Diary blog today titled Why I Want to Give Out Big Raises at My Agency. Here's a quote that I thought was great..
Blogging Customer Service Experiences
I've been following the Infrastructurist blog since it started (it's a great one, by the way), but today editor Jebediah Reed posted a customer service story about what happened when he left his iPhone on an Amtrak train that I think is worth passing on. Here's a snippet...
Fast Cheap Intuitive, Part 2
A few weeks ago, I posted about my first time using Lulu.com to create a book, which was actually just a compilation of articles that I had been planning to read online. After seeing a post by a Google employee about how he'd used Lulu to create a book of web articles so that he could read those articles more comfortably in print, I decided I had to try it out. It was a quick, easy and cheap success. Lulu's application is really simple and well designed, which makes the user experience really great. I decided to create a second book and employ some design improvements to make it nicer to look at and easier to read...
Allowing Un-moderated and Anonymous Blog Comments
Just a quick referral and comment: I saw an article in the Washington Post today by Doug Feaver called Listening to the Dot-Commenters that I thought was pretty interesting. Essentially, Feaver is writing to defend the practice of allowing un-moderated, anonymous comments to be posted to their articles and blogs. I totally agree with him. Here's why...
Avoid design application issues with an overlay
When a finalized design concept is being applied to a new site, it is of course important to make sure that crucial design details are not lost in the process. To a large degree, this can simply be facilitated using a methodical approach to the application.
I have found, however, that often when I think a site is "perfect" there are actually a lot of elements that don't quite line up with what the designer had in mind.
One method I've used to counter this is to add the original design source an an overlayed layer to the final site, one that can be toggled on and off. This allows me to verify that things like element placement, margins and padding, and even line height and font size are faithfully being reproduced.
Introduction to Podcasting, Part 2: Finding and Subscribing to Podcasts
In my last post I went over the basic definition of a podcast. Today I will explore where to find podcasts and how to subscribe.
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Hello there. I'm Jillian, a Project Manager Assistant at Newfangled Web Factory.