Last Ten Blog Entries

  • Orange Juice Snobs - May 02, 2008
    Ames and I are both fairly easygoing and don’t turn our noses up to many things. If there is one thing we are persnickety about though, it’s Orange Juice. You know the stuff they serve at the continental breakfast buffets at most hotels? Horrible. Almost every single OJ available the grocery store? Blech! Even among the “Not from Concentrate, Fresh...
  • Freehand - April 21, 2008
    As many of you already know, I fell down some stairs and broke 2 bones in my hand a couple days before before SXSW. Well, now it’s the 21st of April and I just got the cast off. That’s a long time. I thought I’d break it down for you a little bit. Pun intended. Warning: The last picture w/...
  • Life - April 17, 2008
    The image above is the third in a series of collages from a childhood sketchbook. A few weeks ago, Ames and I drove down to Orlando to see one of my best friends from college get married. While I was in town, I managed to find time one morning to head over to the UCF campus to check out...
  • Unclickable Links in IE - April 15, 2008
    As with most trades, there are some tricks about web design that you only learn through experience. Building complex layouts that avoid browser-specific hacks is certainly one of those tricks. Yes, there are some hard and fast rules you can teach new designers - like how IE version 6 and below screw up the box model - but there are...
  • Ten Years - March 31, 2008
    Update 4/5/08: Apparently while I was cheering on my wife, sister-in-law and friends at the BridgeRun, my site went naked a bit early. Thanks to the person who let me know about my preemptive nudity. Update 4/2/08: Ok folks, show’s over, move along. WHAT? You really want the 90s April Fools version back? Just go back to the homepage and...
  • Experimental - March 26, 2008
    I couldn’t help but grab the arms of my office chair to keep from falling over this afternoon as I checked out Bryan Veloso’s latest redesign of avalonstar. The layered textures, unorthodox structure and analogous color scheme really set it apart from anything else out there. In the words of Levar Burton, “Don’t take my word for it!” For the...
  • Around The World - March 15, 2008
    The following is my entry into the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest. I was inspired by Daft Punk, Flat Hicks, and White Chocolate Mochas. I’d like to thank my wife for encouraging me to design something besides websites for a change…even with a gimp hand. Click the images to see full-size versions in Flickr. The Design Process Hand-Scribbled Calcite Pro One-Color...
  • Urban Fabric - March 05, 2008
    The image above is the second in a series of collages from a childhood sketchbook. Over the years, I’ve met, been inspired by, and become friends with many of my fellow web weavers. Getting to meet a lot of those people in person at my first SXSW last year and then again at The Webmaster Jam Session last Summer...
  • Distinctively User Friendly - February 27, 2008
    This probably requires a little explanation. While I was cleaning the office last weekend, I came across a sketchbook that I used when I was a kid. I’m guessing the first few drawings are from 7th or 8th grade and the last few marked pages are from my senior year in high school. For me, browsing through the pages...
  • Lighthearted Nerdery - February 22, 2008
    Amidst the flurry of depressingly divided, emotional articles about IE8 breaking the browser market with version targeting, it was nice to see some altruistic, informative, and just-plain-fun news in my RSS reads this week: Sam Brown announced that Sidepath is now FREE!Andy Budd began a not-to-be-missed series on Design ArtefactsRob Goodlatte and Dan Romero released their creative Twitter app: Strawpoll...

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