Posts Tagged: Web Design and Usability
Hot Off the Press
This evening I dropped by a local news stand on Yonge Street and picked up today's New York Times to see the Firefox ad everyone's been anticipating. I've been doing some minor critiquing of the preliminary designs with Steven, but I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw it printed on newsprint at …
Favourite Favicons: Eight
Here's the latest addition to the ever-growing collection of great favicons from around the web. These favicons are culled from all kinds of sites, but I've recently gotten into Photoblogs and there are a few good examples of favicons taken from some of them including In the Rain, East 3rd, and …
AdSense for Charity
Several months ago, my friend and coworker Steven Garrity started displaying Google AdSense advertisements on his weblog as an experiment. Thankfully, he's using some simple filtering so the only people who see his ads are those that arrive via a search result, so regular readers never see them at …
Firefox One Point Oh
Just to add to the overall noise level around the web today, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 launched last night to great fanfare. As I'm writing this, the Mozilla site is very slow, but it is eventually loading and the download speeds for actually getting Firefox are fast. Have patience it's worth the wait …
Televising Tech
I had an interesting experience earlier today, appearing for the first time on television to talk about CSS and web standards on Canada's G4TechTV show "Call for Help". I was invited to come to the show by co-host Amber MacArthur and I agreed to appear because the novelty of the whole situation …
Favourite Favicons: Seven
Here's yet another installment of favicons to be added to the original collection. I think this time there are some really stellar examples. Rapha's stylish "R" matches their slick new website and the University of Saskatchewan's icon is very pixel-icious. Do enjoy. • If you've suggested a …
Mozilla.org Gets Standardized
The new Mozilla.org has been featured this week on The Weekly Standards: a site that "is dedicated to recognizing sites that have been lovingly crafted with web standards and the future in mind." I got an email from Adam Howell, the guy that runs the site, last week with some questions about the …
Zoom Zoom Zoom
I've recently been working on some concepts for a redesign of a site that uses a text-resizing widget. The audience for the site is primarily seniors, so large text is important. And, before you start shouting that people should use their browser's built-in support for this, many visitors to the …
Favourite Favicons: Six
I've still been stumbling across more great favicons over the past few months and have just enough to make another addition to the original collection even if it's not a huge installment. Some of these new entries are especially nice adaptions of logos or product themes like the lovely Lego brick …
Mozilla Website Beta
As Steven announced earlier today, we've just launched a beta redesign of the Mozilla website. We're looking for debugging help and feedback from everyone before we launch the new design. • As some people have kindly noted, the front page content of the beta site has not yet been updated. This …