If you’ve ever posted or read comments on a blog, you’ve probably noticed the little icons associated with each post. If you’re a new commenter, you may wonder why you get some sort of boring nondescript icon instead of something that reveals your True Character.
While some sites’ comment systems have their own proprietary way to [...]
Category Archives: web
Personalize Your Comments
September 8, 2009 – 12:59 pm
woo-hoo. I finally own scottreston.com
March 1, 2009 – 7:18 pm
About a year ago I discovered, much to my dismay, that someone had registered scottreston.com. I was kinda embarrassed – I mean: I should know better. But as of today, that error has been corrected. The person who purchased the domain last year let it expire. I used GoDaddy’s back-order service and – tada!
Illustrating With Comics: Pixton
January 26, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Back in ‘07, I saw an interesting presentation by Rebekah Sedaca that advocated using comics to help clients better understand a process/design/etc. Comics can help serialize interactions in a way that’s clearer than the output of interaction-mapping tools like Visio. With comics, you can also detail the responses that a visitor/user might have – something [...]
Validated
January 22, 2009 – 8:53 am
Call me a geek, but I think it’s awesome that whitehouse.gov validates. Has the site always had an accessibility statememt?
And while I’m thinking of it, three cheers for the jQuery image slideshow on the homepage.
Chris Johnson Featured on Campaign Monitor
January 22, 2009 – 8:05 am
Pretty cool: My colleague Chris Johnson was featured on Campaign Monitor’s blog yesterday. Campaign Monitor is a great tool for managing email marketing campaigns. Their blog features designs that they find innovative and interesting. Kudos, Chris.
Integrating ExpressionEngine uploaded images in TinyMCE
October 21, 2008 – 12:43 pm
I’ve been experimenting with a CMS called ExpressionEngine. I haven’t been too thrilled with the in-built content editor and have been exploring replacing it with TinyMCE. There’s an EE extension that’ll do this fairly easily.
I found an article in the EE wiki that appeared to explain how to integrate TinyMCE with EE’s uploaded images, but [...]
Wordpress Wireframes
October 2, 2008 – 7:49 pm
Wordpress is being very open about the update to it’s administrative interface. They’ve collected a lot of input, conducted a few polls and are now revealing wireframes of the new (and evolving) interface.
Over the years, I’ve had plenty of discussions (and several arguments) about presenting wireframes to clients. Something that’s pretty familiar to a designer [...]
Mythbusters – Fun With Gas
September 17, 2008 – 10:16 am
Hmmm. can’t get enough of the Mythbusters YouTube-ness.
iPhone copy and paste
September 8, 2008 – 3:21 pm
Ha – My friend Charles hit the trifecta this week – Boing Boing, Gizmodo and the Digg front page! Congrats!