Reality and I are having an argument…

May 28th, 2010

…and I think it’s winning.

I can’t tell if the problem is that I don’t believe in the uncivilized hour of 5 am, or if 5 am doesn’t believe in me.

In Search of Bolder Type and a Font Outline

May 27th, 2010

I have always been annoyed by how not-bold the standard browser-safe system fonts are at smaller font sizes. And even now, calling in a bolder typeface using @font-face is not always a viable option (like a project I’m working on right now). I need heavier type than Verdana bold, and it needs an outline to make it stand out against its background, it can’t have any extra markup, and it has to be cross browser compatible. Read the rest of this entry »

Bookmarks for May 19th through May 22nd

May 22nd, 2010

These are my links for May 19th through May 22nd:

jQuery/CSS3 gallery update

May 22nd, 2010

Well, I saw an interesting demo of a draggable css3/jquery-based gallery a couple weeks ago and I’ve been playing with it to see if it was possible to integrate it with wordpress. I’m in the process of writing a tutorial about how to add it to your own wordpress site, but I noticed today that it’s throwing a javascript error in IE (I know, errors in IE, what a shocker). I’ll figure that out and get some decent graphics to replace the plain white border that’s there now, and then you can look for a new tutorial on how to implement it on any wordpress site.

Bookmarks for May 13th through May 18th

May 18th, 2010

These are my links for May 13th through May 18th:

Usability seminar…

May 14th, 2010

Just gave a seminar on usability for non-engineers. It seemed to go over well. I can’t port it to the site, unfortunately, due to the same restrictive security policies that cover everything else I’m doing these days, but I’m considering a book or maybe just a series of posts: Usability for Business People.