mezzoblue § February 2003 archive

Eyewire

Feb 27

After my tirade this afternoon, I stand thoroughly confused.

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Dear Getty Images

Thank you so much for shutting down Eyewire halfway through today.

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Picture if you will, one peaceful Friday afternoon at work. A conversation with the boss about a new client, Thomson Widgets, Inc., who is a customer of marketing firm Catchy Marketing. A URL is given where you can view a few JPGs of Thomson’s new site that were comped by Catchy. How long will it take you to convert to XHTML and implement content?

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Click Here

Feb 21

‘Click here to continue.’

‘For more information, Click Here.’

‘’50% off your favourite gizmo. Click Here!’

Click below for more.

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Stats Quest

Feb 20

On Paul’s recommendation, I checked out Re_Invigorate. I also found HotStats in my referrers, so I’m running them both on top of SiteMeter right now. I’ll post an analysis once I’ve used them for a week or two. Right now it looks like SiteMeter is still giving me the most useful information, but I probably haven’t explored the other two enough yet.

I shouldn’t care so much about this, but I just can’t help it.

In other news — clearer access to the archives, a more bandwidth–friendly version of this site, and the RDF generated by Movable Type are now accessible through the shiny new icons in the right.

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What the?

Feb 19

What the Font? — it guesses which typeface was used in an image if you cannot. A great utility from a pretty handy, albeit kind of ugly font site.

Hacking my own work from a few years back, I tried calling in for some extra help. What I got in return was a pretty clear example of why there’s no substitute for the human eye. I didn’t give it a great source image, to be fair.

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Headaches, grumblings, and laziness

Feb 18

Having the same problem as Meg, my host doesn’t give me stats on who you guys are and when you’re coming by. I’m curious, just like you. I enlisted the help of SiteMeter, a cheesy hit counter that actually goes a lot further and breaks down actually useful things like domain, OS, time zone, language, etc.

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URLs vs. XHTML

Feb 17

After linking a few items on Amazon.com, my XHTML has been broken for who–knows–how–long. It popped up as I redesigned, but I didn’t bother investigating. Chalk one up to silly validation rules and laziness.

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Lucida Sans

Feb 13

Lucida Sans: it’s the new Verdana.

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Channeling Quality

Feb 12

Proving once again that there’s something new to learn about this amazing program every day, I just discovered that Photoshop allows you to tinker with the quality of specific areas of an image when saving as a GIF or JPG.

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