I’m in Chicago again for An Event Apart. I’ll be posting my raw notes for the following parts: Monday Understanding Web Design – Jeffrey Zeldman Debug/Reboot – Eric Meyer Storytelling by Design – Jason Santa Maria Design Criteria: Actionable Ideas – Sarah Nelson On-the-Spot Usability Reviews – Robert Hoekman, Jr Designing the Details: Web-App UI [...]
Authentic Jobs is the brainchild of renown standardista designer Cameron Moll. It’s a job/personnel connection site, much in the ilk of the 37signals Job Board, but way prettier. Authentic Jobs are screened through the brain of Mr. Moll himself. The testimonials page would bring grown developers to blush; Authentic Jobs proves insanely effective at filling [...]
RegexWidget, how I love thee. We all know (or should) that regular expressions save the day, but how frequently do we implement them in our string manipulation? RegexWidget will ease your transition, allowing you to test your regular expressions straight from your Dashboard. No direct link, so scroll down a bit on the widgets page [...]
Notes to follow. Monday session: Eric Meyer: Secrets of the CSS Jedi Jeffrey Zeldman: Writing the User Interface Jason Santa Maria: Design Your Way Out of a Paper Bag Lou Rosenfeld: Search Analytics for Fun and Profit Liz Danzico: The Seven Lies of Information Architecture Dan Cedarholm: Interface Design Juggling
Earlier this week NeatlySliced.com was transferred to a new host. Before the DNS switched, I wanted to test the new site. The new host uses virtual hosting, which means that I have to change the hidden /etc/hosts OS X file to assign the IP to blog.neatlysliced.com. Okay, so going to Go > Go To Folder [...]
I’m always eager for debug tools in different browsers so that I can troubleshoot browser-unique rendering CSS and JavaScript issues. I am yet to uncover a decent Safari Web Dev toolbar. A simple option, however, is the Debug menu. The Debug menu features User Agent spoofing, JavaScript console (not quite as good as Firefox’s), and [...]
I installed Safari 3 Beta on my work Windows machine to test some sites. It was running fairly well, but one site that I hit crashed every time I hit a menu option. I did some googling, and the error code I received matched that of an application hitting a bad batch of memory. In [...]
