July 2004

On Dissidence

By now, many of you may have seen François Briatte’s recent survey of 10 web sites he reads on a regular basis. My props to François for assembling an insanely detailed, and very well documented and explained study. I’ll add a few notes relative to Stopdesign’s position within the survey. continued

link 29 Jul 2004 in Ephemera, Web 14

Projected Savings

In the article published here yesterday, “Throwing Tables out the Window”, I provided a few what if projections of bandwidth savings based on a shot-in-the-dark conservative estimate that Microsoft.com might average about 1 million page views per day. Turns out I underestimated. By just a little. continued

link 28 Jul 2004 in Business, CSS…

Throwing Tables

Every now and then, I write something that starts out as a normal log entry to go in this very space. Then the writing gets a little longer, I spend more time polishing it, and its importance somehow gets escalated to a level where I don’t want it to disappear into the ether of reverse-chronological archives. Such is the case with my latest piece, “Throwing Tables Out the Window”. continued

link 27 Jul 2004 in CSS, Events…

Library Escalators

My favorite photo from a 10-minute visit (that’s all the time I had) to Seattle’s Rem Koolhaas-designed Central Library continued

link 24 Jul 2004 in Design, Locations 19

Get Well, from WV/04

Q: What happens when you’re scheduled to appear at two conferences back to back to give a total of four presentations within six days, and you end up cancelling your appearance at one of the conferences because you’re unsure if your lower back, with a disc that herniated a month prior, might not do so well with the combined stress of preparing for and travelling to both events? continued

link 23 Jul 2004 in Events, Personal

A CSS Mosaic

I just returned from Seattle, where I gave two well-received presentations covering design and CSS. One of my screens from the first presentation used a mosaic I assembled (which I share here) of 144 sites that have been added to the CSS Vault within the last four months. My, how quickly the use of CSS is expanding. Update: Steve Smith heard the call and answered: the larger image now uses a complete image map to make every portion of the mosaic clickable to the appropriate site. continued

link 22 Jul 2004 in CSS 32

Seattle-bound

In a few minutes, I step onto a plane bound for Seattle for a short two-day trip. I’ll be speaking twice tomorrow at Digital Design World. continued

link 20 Jul 2004 in Events, Locations

Women, Part II

Interesting that the same topic I wrote about at the end of last year (Who/Where are the Women?) is resurfacing. Well, actually, it’s always a topic, but one that seems to be getting hot again. continued

link 9 Jul 2004 in CSS, Design… 47

Filtering CSS

Looking to keep hacks in your primary style sheet to a minimum? This entry introduces a new CSS filter that can be used to import a separate style sheet for IE5/Mac, named the IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter. continued

link 6 Jul 2004 in CSS 55