Should the bird go?

I think the redesign is coming along reasonably well but it will take a break for about a week and sit just like it sits now. I'm not sure if the bird will stay or go. I like the image but can't find a way to work it in with the site well. There is lot's of tweaking of the CSS yet to come and still some significant layout changes. Also I've finally started to put together an 'about' section which needs a fair bit of work. On a side note, Laura has some reasonably exciting news which I'm not ... more

A redesign

I've been hinting to an imminent site redesign for months now but it seems like it might never happen. I've only managed to put together a few seeds of ideas and nothing more. One of the major problems is that I just don't have time to dedicate to it right now. But I'm impatient, I really wanted a new design for Spring 1, as a result I'm just going to start changing stuff and turn it into a slow evolution rather than a distinct redesign. I've finally decided to embrace this whole folksonomy/tagging thing after setting up a del.icio.us account ... more

Good Lord Why??

Worst idea in human history.

Some things to strive for in the re-design?

I just added a new feed to my Bloglines account thanks to a link by Phu 1. The feed I added is from Design by Fire (DxF) and the reason I added it was because of their Design Eye for the Usability Guy. The Usability Guy, for those of you who don't know and couldn't be bothered reading the linked article, is Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen, as any web developer worth a pinch of salt will tell you, is regarded (by many) as The King of Web Usability, and he's pretty good at it. What he's not particularly good at2 ... more

What a geek does

I don't know how it's possible but I think I may have just become even more of a geek than before. Not by actually becoming more geeky but by becoming more nerdy and not proportionally reducing my geekiness1. Aside from my usual activities which consist of spending upward of 10 hours a day in front of a computer, this week2 I have also done the following things: Released a WordPress Plugin about footnotes. Been reading three books at once (which by my definition is nerdy) all of which are on geeky/nerdy subjects. They are Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson 3, ... more