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Here are a few things that fancied my interest this week:
XKCD comic #438. This particular strip illustrates everything that I think is wrong with how people behave on the Web. The comic is very reminiscent of a more general psychological problem that occurs when people assume a pattern of decreased “social integrity” when [...]
Early in September, I volunteered to re-design the Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO) website, and now, two months later, the makeover is finally complete. Or almost complete. There’s still a ton of content to add, and I’m afraid it’s the kind of content that is the most difficult to integrate from a design perspective: [...]
After about a one month hiatus, I’m finally back. I’ll admit to having spent a lot of time on this new design, but it may not even show. There were a lot of other technical issues I had to work out, and like always, I adopted a pretty haphazard and disorganized routine for [...]
Back in the 20th century, this blog made its debut as an incoherent jumble of HTML markup. A freshman in high school and a bona fide stupid-idiot-loser-kid, I used to hand-code my posts into an index page laid out in tables (gasp) using a web-based text editor provided by one of those free hosting services, like Geocities or Tripod. Instead of using paragraph tags (<p>), I used line breaks (<BR>, XHTML-noncompliant) to delineate bodies of text, and there were no stylesheets to be seen for miles.
As an amateur web designer, I take a somewhat unorthodox and arguably stupid approach to designing the layout for a page.
Version 5 of simonlife failed. While conjuring this very elusive interface, I OD’ed on sentiment, floral diversions, and Viktor Navorski. Admittedly, it was a great show of stylistic combat…