My company is in the process of redesigning their website. Actually, my team is building it. Rather than pay for a lot of stock images, Compass decided to pay for a photo shoot with Compass employees as the guinea pigs. The result?
Archive for April 2001
KurtzweilAI.net
Raymond Kurtzweil's site is a great example of using innovative technology to enhance the true communication and concept of a site. KutzweilAI.net uses flash and The Brain to communicate concepts on Artificial Intelligence. KurzaweilAI has a really innovative glossary feature that links words in the site into a graphical, associative "brain". Worth checking out, for graphical, engineering, and philosophical interest.
A Rant: Dave, Omni, Outlining, and FUD
I'm disappointed to see Dave's immediate, and dire, warnings against lock-in in reference to Omni's Outliner.
The growing OS X web development toolbox
I'm slowly working towards a complete toolkit under OS X. BBEdit has come to OSX, and CVL is working pretty well, and I'm looking forward to getting Dreamweaver and Fireworks on OSX. Freehand for OS X is on it's way (May).
BBEdit for Mac OS X!! Woohoooo!
My all-time fav text editor just got better - in fact, it got Carbonized!
I'm going to hell
Today I'm looking to do something I never thought I would do, and am fairly certain that I'm risking hell-fire: I'm looking to install Microsft Visual Basic on my pc. The situation at work has gotten to the point where we are likely to be billed out as M$ platform web developers, so my only chance at survival is to see if there's a way to implement some time-tested ideas in a new (shudder) environment.
Just what does a CMS do?
Phil Suh on the Camworld CMS list -
"And that's what good content management systems do: eliminate tedious repetitive work, prevent human error, and allow content authors to concentrate on their writing, and not on the technical tasks involved in publishing."
REVEAL artwork - classic REM
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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.
This is great - it's classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that's NOT what we're seeing? Think "Document".)
REVEAL artwork - classic REM
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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.
This is great - it's classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that's NOT what we're seeing? Think "Document".)
Moving Day
Well, I haven't been updating this site very often lately... been super busy at work, and at home. Today we (work mates) moved from our old offices (big space, mini-kitchen, large offices) into the new, nice, cubicle-rife space that is the new Compass office. sigh. Now working in a mini cube-farm, we're relegated to headphone use (where before we each had booming sub-woofers ;-)), and smaller work areas.
I suppose we'll get used to it, and it'll mean a lot less driving between locations for meetings and such. But it's still a shame.
