« March 2003 Entries »

Mapping on the Web

Mar 31

I’m currently involved in a project that deals with large–format maps targetted towards high–resolution HP plotters. The finished maps are around 4 feet on both sides. Somehow, these incredibly huge pieces of paper have to be neatly represented on a low–resolution 15 inch monitor.

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Too Much Load

Mar 25

It strikes me as fundamentally wrong that success on the web can bite you in the ass.

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Discrepant English

Mar 24

forge — to create, to mold, to develop an original.

forge — to counterfeit, to fake, to duplicate an original.

How did one word end up meaning two opposite things? We speak such a quirky language, don’t we?

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Hack Hotbot, Part III

Mar 20

As the world’s attention has been shifted elsewhere, not much of note has happened recently in the wide world of design. For the sake of having interesting new things on this site, here are a few notes from my own battle in the trenches: the Hack Hotbot contest. Hopefully they’ll be of some use to anyone joining me in this raving masochism.

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Hack Hotbot, part II

Mar 13

Hey, I like the initiative that Wired and Hotbot have shown recently just as much as the rest of the web development community, so Terra–Lycos is okay in my books.

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The Perils of Gamma

Mar 12

When designing for web, you keep in mind that everyone else will see your work differently than you. They may have more pixels or less, more contrast or less, and a completely different colour profile, guaranteed.

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Hack Hotbot! (Or don’t even bother)

Mar 11

The old Wired search engine, HotBot, recently made news by switching to an all–CSS design. Now they’re rippling the waters again with their latest news:

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Worldwide.

Mar 10

Sometimes it’s interesting to take a step back and consider how ordinary the extraordinary has become.

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WThRemix Entries In

Mar 08

Wow. ‘Underwhelmed’ comes to mind. The entries for the W3C redesign contest are in, and it’s pretty clear that the goals of the contest weren’t entirely met.

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Photo Friday

Mar 06

This is fun.

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Weblogs as Advertising

Mar 04

What Anil has been talking about is bound to fail. For now. Short summary: Project Blogger is looking to pay weblog publishers willing to hawk merchandise.

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Can we drop it?

Mar 03

I’ve been tracking Netscape 4.x usage the past 6 months on TheCounter.com. Since they track over 350 million visitors a month to various sites that use their service, it’s pretty safe to say they’re sampling a broad cross–section of the web–using population.

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