A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

Thoughts from a web designer, writer and cat lover.

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Entries Tagged as 'Design'

Two lovely things

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Shirt
I haven’t broken down to spend $22+ on one t-shirt yet, but I probably will for this one. It’s quite appealing, even beyond the obvious reason. (For the wishlist, make it Baby blue, XL.)

Screensaver
Way cool screensaver that gives date and time in words. I like the design, it’s a fresh yet retro [...]

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Tags: Design · Pleasant Things

Firefox 3 interface nitpick

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Upgraded to Firefox 3 yesterday. Only one complaint: to get to your recently visited sites, there is only one drop-down next to the Forward button to access them all.
It makes more intuitive sense to me the way IE has it arranged, a drop-down by the Back button for your browsing history and another drop-down [...]

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Tags: Design · Internet

Poor photo choice for MSNBC homepage

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This photo was on the homepage of MSNBC.com when I visited just a few minutes ago. I believe it’s suppose to illustrate Georgian refugees‘ anxiety, fleeing Russian aggression, but it looks more like the girl in front is being kidnapped at knife-point.

Burak Kara / Getty Images

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Tags: Design · In the News · Photography

Do You Own a Kindle?

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments

GeekSugar posted a poll yesterday asking, “Do You Own a Kindle?”
None of the poll answers quite fit my response. No, I don’t own a Kindle. I wouldn’t even consider it because it’s too expensive. But even if someone offered one to me for free, would I really use it? Many fantasy/scifi books I like [...]

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Tags: Design · Hobbies · Rants · Reading

Poor webpage design

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This page, www.hothomesofutah.com/video-archive.html, loads over 1,000 images (when I visited it in IE). Nearly all are the SAME four icons.
It seems they’re trying to use a CSS trick to make images appear without coding the image in HTML. The icon to view a video and the icon to download a video are displayed with [...]

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Tags: Design · HTML and CSS · Internet