After a year of using iWeb for the Norman Mailer Society’s web site, I finally wizened up and began using WordPress. Now, I have nothing against iWeb for beginners. It’s much better than the Micro$oft equivalent (what isn’t?), but it has some major flaws. For one, it is a pain in the butt to do [...]
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Updates, Updates, Updates
Well, I’m in the process of moving my blog (again!) from my Tumblr site to this one. I’m still gonna keep that site, but I’ll probably just use it for photoblogging. Maybe I should just ditch it, and use Flickr for that? Hm. Anywho, I hope this will be a final move for my blog. [...]
The New LitMUSE
Well, I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, and there’s nothing like convalescing to give me some free time. I’ve finally updated the look of my courseware website LitMUSE. Actually, this theme is one I came up with several years ago, but I updated the CSS and made it into a template for [...]
RoopleTheme
I found some excellent Drupal themes from RoopleTheme. I used one for the Mailer Society’s site and one for The Mailer Review site. Thanks for the professional work, guys. While the themes are excellent as is, I know I’ll be tweaking them a little bit.
Template Exchange
For those of you who have switched to Pages, from Apple’s iWork suite, there is a new web site you should know about: iWork Community. So far, it’s just a template exchange, but it’s exciting to see so much enthusiasm springing up around this product. I, for one, really like Pages. Its introduction has allowed [...]
Design Philosophy
Design is about elegant simplicity. Good design appeals to the user’s intuition: it makes sense. The reason that everyone likes the book is that it has become naturalized, a well designed package for our knowledge. However, the book is no longer an apt symbol for information in an age of networked computers. Information design must [...]
