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Comic Update: You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Quirky
written by Kyle Weems on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:04:38 +0000
Today’s comic expresses my love affair with cheesecake, which is perhaps the most inappropriately named desert ever. It is not a cake, my friends. It is pie. Cheesepie, if you will… although that sounds like some sort of cheddar-filled crust with that title. The comic also features Pete LePage as a Microsoft stand-in, being subjected [...]...Read More
Comic Update: Alone In The Pitch Black Dark
written by Kyle Weems on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:03:27 +0000
Today’s comic features the chairs of the W3C HTML WG, Sam Ruby, Maciej Stachowiak and Paul Cotton as they and the Squirrel try to deal with the dangers of a cave monster in the dark. You’ll have to take my word for it, however, unless you follow the instructions on the comic to read the [...]...Read More
Surrender Monkey
written by Kyle Weems on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:50:47 +0000
Gruber says: “It’s not that Google is worse on net neutrality than other companies with a stake in the mobile phone game. It’s that they made such a show of being better, of being on the side of the public interest — before they had a big stake in the game.” Word. This is in [...]...Read More
Comic Update: Define “Evil”
written by Kyle Weems on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:54:18 +0000
I’m not always comfortable with labeling technology-related positions as “evil” or “good” considering the difficulties of applying morality to anything in the 21st century without being told that it’s all subjective. However, considering the importance of the Internet and equal access to its content in today’s society, I think I’ll ask you all to excuse [...]...Read More
Comic Update: Back To The HTML, Or How Vanilla Ice Saved The Web
written by Kyle Weems on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:59:00 +0000
Today’s comic features the year 1991, where a time-traveling Jeremy Keith, a younger John Foliot sporting a ponytail and Vanilla Ice are involved in a pivotal moment of history that would make or break Sir Tim’s invention of HTML. I am reliably informed by those involved that my version of events is remarkably close to the [...]...Read More
Mindfly Blog Feed
Getting Vertical With CSS
written by blogger.nospam@nospam.mindfly.com (Kyle Weems) on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:33:00 -1000
On Monday I discussed over at CSSquirrel my annoyance with vertically centering text with CSS. Any of you that have tackled this task have likely realized the chore that it is. For those of you who aren't aware, it's not as easy as it seems. Today, I'll help show you how we can make it happen, despite CSS's shortcomings. Despite the fact that CSS has been around for at least fifteen years, and text has been in browsers since the very beginning, it turns out that unlike hor...Read More
Content Strategy & User Experience
written by blogger.nospam@nospam.mindfly.com (Theresa Carpine) on Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:11:00 -1000
After a two month hiatus, Maya and I were finally able to head south for another meeting of Content Strategy Seattle. This time, instead of a round-table discussion or an informal Q&A, we were treated to a real, live presentation with a speaker and a slide show! The speaker? Nick Finck of Blue Flavor. The topic? How Content Strategy Fits Into the User Experience. Nick prefaced his talk with the disclaimer that he is not a content strategist; he's a User Experience designer a...Read More
Social Media: A Bellingham Success Story
written by blogger.nospam@nospam.mindfly.com (Theresa Carpine) on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:06:00 -1000
Thanks to social media, I get to meet one of my heroes this week. Our tale begins in the autumn of 2001. As America mourned 9/11 and I started my senior year of high school, I took a weekly escape to Stars Hollow, Connecticut for the second season of the WB's Gilmore Girls. As I had only watched snippets of the previous season, I turned to Google with a search of "Gilmore Girls episode guide" for a bit of plot clarification. I stumbled upon a website that provided just tha...Read More
From Concept to Completion: My Design Process
written by blogger.nospam@nospam.mindfly.com (Erica Quessenberry) on Wed, 26 May 2010 11:07:00 -1000
Once a month or so we do lunch seminars here at Mindfly Studio. It's a chance to share our own knowldge, wisdom, and experience and learn from one another. May turned out to be my month, and while I'd much rather do the learning than the teaching I stepped up and attempted to educate my lovely co-workers on my design process. So much of what I do is intuitive, it took a bit a planning, a bit of research and a lot of hand gesturing but I did come up with something ... eventually ... ...Read More
Diving in with CSS3 Awesome-ness: A Case Study
written by blogger.nospam@nospam.mindfly.com (Erica Quessenberry) on Mon, 10 May 2010 12:20:00 -1000
I was recently assigned a project for a client who needed a very low-budget, no frills, *simple website that had little content. Not used to having a practically non-existent budget, I decided to view this project as a great opportunity to try out some new CSS3 goodness. Granted, most people viewing this site are probably not going to see the majority of the work I put into it, but I know it's there and so do Webkit-based users (Safari & Chrome), and, to some extent, so do Mozilla user...Read More