I came across the University of Dayton’s MyLife at UD site today and for some reason the little header icons they were using seemed very familiar. I could have sworn I had seen them before. So, I went browsing to Dan Cederholm‘s website because it looked like something he would have made. I browsed through… Continue reading Stolen Logo
Month: September 2005
Spruced Up Site Maps v2
Some website developers are familiar with my ALA article “Spruced Up Site Maps” where I use CSS to format a plain site map in a way that resembles something more like a structured directory. Due to a comment from an ALA reader, I added JavaScript later on to the site map in an effort to… Continue reading Spruced Up Site Maps v2
Hit the Big Time
I’ve hit the big time. You know you’re popular when your name is generated as random text in a spam blog. Woodswesternwear I feel like a movie star.
Print Design
Does anyone know of some thorough, comprehensive resources for learning the fundamentals of print design? My work responsibilities may be expanding in the near future and there are no local educational programmes for learning professional print design.
Hot Pepper T-shirt
My birthday present was ringer T-shirt from my HotPepper.ca store. I think my children (6 and 4) were more excited about me opening it than I was. Now they think (since we bought a shirt for the baby a few weeks ago) that they should get some and that Mary should as well. A hot… Continue reading Hot Pepper T-shirt
Email Subject
My wife, Mary Siever, received an email the other day with the subject “website”. Interestingly enough, nowhere in the email did it say anything about any website. Some advice: make sure the subject of your email has something to do with the content of your email. Particularly if the person you are writing received hundreds… Continue reading Email Subject
Proper Names
Someone at work tried telling me that ‘keys’ in ‘USB keys’ should be capitalised because it is a proper name (such as John Smith or Minneapolis). Just to be clear, ‘USB keys’ is not a proper noun. Neither is ‘Zip drives’ or ‘floppy drives’ or ‘hard drives’ or ‘monitors’ or ‘printers’ or any other computer… Continue reading Proper Names