Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
August 31, 2011
css / html / responsive design
Data tables are still a hard thing to style, but it’s important to do it well. Naturally, they’re even harder to style if you try to do things in a responsive way. But this is a good start..
August 31, 2011
adaptive path / twitter / user experience
In their presentation about Creating Engagement on Twitter presentation at UX Week 2011 Mark Trammell & Jesse James Garrett walked through the concepts underlying the redesign of Twitter’s sign up process.
August 29, 2011
Matt Cutts definitively explains what happens with underscores and dashes in URLs, from an SEO perspective. In essence, dashes are treated as separators, while underscores are treated as joiners. Starting from scratch? Use dashes.
August 29, 2011
I think it’s fantastic that folks are starting a conversation to get beyond social media buttons into what people are actually doing. It’s important, as the alternative truly is another NASCAR effect on the web, as if we didn’t have enough ads.
August 29, 2011
design / ipad / reading / user experience
There’s a deep reservoir of opportunity here; some of it would be easy to pull off but a lot of it would be difficult to make happen, because it would entail turning these apps from magazines into truly social products that just happen to look like beautifully designed magazines. That’s not an easy task, but someone is sure to do it, and whoever that is — whether it’s Flipboard or TweetMag or someone else entirely — they’ll stand the best chance, in my opinion, of creating a truly new, truly engrossing reading experience.
August 29, 2011
design / ipad / reading / user experience
It’s bordering on obstinate to think that something you care so much about can be salvaged by doing more or less the same thing that has failed magazines so consistently until now: continuing to ignore the fundamentals of digital user experience design and how they diverge from analog print design.
August 29, 2011
My opinion about iPad-based magazines is that they run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless something changes, will remain at odds with the way people will use tablets as the medium matures. They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all.
August 29, 2011
css / design / javascript / responsive design
To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs rounds up 21 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive.
August 27, 2011
bible / economics / jesus / new testament / theology
Is [the parable of the talents] not praise for being an astute manager of money, investing it so that it produces more rather than simply sitting on it and doing nothing? Not at all.
August 27, 2011
orthodox / richard-beck / soteriology / theology
In this post I want to go deeper into how the Orthodox view the Fall and salvation. To do this I’ll be sharing extensive quotes from Orthodox theologian John Romanides’ book Ancestral Sin. Romanides’ work will pull together most of the threads of the earlier posts. What you’ll find new in this post are first glimpses of the Orthodox view of salvation and the Christian life.