Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category

Judging a book by it’s cover…

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Or in this case, judging a candidate by their web design! Let's face it - I am no political wag, and politics is something best left to other demagogues and zealotous pundits across the spectrum. However, I can claim passable knowledge in double bass, and claim a rudimentary knowledge of ...

What the hell was I thinking?

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I backed out of the global rewrite of my blog's CSS this evening, because let's face it: I had no plan, and I have traded my graphic design chops for code chops long ago. I'll try to revisit this issue later. I have more important things to waste my time with. ...

Clobber and rewrite

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

It's time to redesign. I'll use my traditional method of blowing everything away and starting from scratch. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today. Noticed some of my categories are missing. This is a first for me - usually the upgrades go pretty well. I wonder what design I'll come up with... I also ...

PDF Rant

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

PDF is a poorly-understood medium for most developers. In fact, I'll go as far as to say that 98% (not scientific - you get the picture) of the PDF creators out there have any idea of what is going on underneath the hood when they produce a PDF. I'm talking ...

A Discussion on Aesthetics & Engineering

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Next week I get to be a panelist at the International Conference on Web Engineering at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The panel discussion is entitled: "Web Page Design- Aesthetics Meets Web Engineering." I think that historically (can I say "historically" in web context? I suppose it's been around long enough ...