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Category Archives: Design

A much simpler design

My great friend and colleague Marc Mendell built me a new design last June, and I loved it. But soon after, my site started to get slow. I was having problems with my hosting service too.
Plus, older stories were getting broken because the content was too wide.

I needed a more extensible design. I asked Marc [...]

An Event Apart 2008

For the past two days, I have been at An Event Apart at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

For years, it’s been the one conference I was dying to attend. Last year, I finally got in. But this year, I took notes.
If you want a full recap, check out my posts on ZDNet from today [...]

A new design for Neha

Out of every blog I’ve ever created for a friend, no one updates as much as Neha. I always tell her that I am gonna work on her site, but I usually let her down and just push it aside. So today I put some time into a new design.

She totally deserves a new blog [...]

Facebook’s new design evolving

Last month, Facebook released their new design in beta, and it’s fun to watch it evolve.
It’s fun to watch it change. Here is a screenshot from about a week ago:

Looks like they are moving the profile photo to the right (taken 7/12):

And finally on 7/20:

Which one do you like best?

Twitter is testing on their live site again

Twitter rolled out some new stylistic changes today, but I guess they didn’t test everything. My replies are all gone.

I do like the new look and feel though. It’s much cleaner. Maybe they should work on preventing the fail whale or the “something is technically wrong” robot from showing up as much.

A CSS trick blog

As a technical producer at CNET, I spend a lot of time updating and improving markup. As time goes on, I learn little CSS tricks here and there to make sites look good in all browsers. I always thought it would be a good idea to have a web coder’s strategy guide, but I never [...]