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One Page Love

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:43 GMT

The best in single-page sites.

Link: http://onepagelove.com/

The 960 Grid System

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:48 GMT

Templating for grid-based web layouts.

Link: http://960.gs/

Apple, Google and you

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:23:25 GMT

Link: http://bitsandpieces.us/?p=1209

The Story So Far

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:15:43 GMT

Why are standardistas not telling stories like the Flash guys?

Link: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0114_the_story_so.php

JavaScript shortcuts that shouldn’t be black magic to the “average developer”

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:45:36 GMT

Link: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/11/27/javascript-shortcut-notations-that-shouldnt-be-black-magic-to-the-average-developer/

CommandShift3

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:27:00 GMT

“It’s like Hot or Not for web design”

Link: http://commandshift3.com/

Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:14:06 GMT

From Andy Rutledge.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php

Updated Hamsters

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:40:45 GMT

The weather was less-than-conducive to anything other being a shut-in over the weekend, so I spent my time goofing around with the site (when I wasn’t playing Mass Effect). I believe this makes Version 7 for those of you keeping score at home.

No weather or time of day effects yet, but the code’s still in there so I’m expecting them to come back as more time avails itself (read: I beat Mass Effect).

Seven Lies about Information Architecture

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:08:45 GMT

Good rules for breaking the rules.

Link: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?574

Creating websites for the Wii browser

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:20:54 GMT

Capture Wiimote key codes with Javascript.

Link: http://www.bolinfest.com/wii/

Jeff Zeldman vs Jeff Veen

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:42:20 GMT

Here we see Zeldman battling Veen in an all out Web Guru Wii brawl. The best part is that the video was not made by the Jeffs, but rather by Cindy Li and Dan Rubin, who obviously have too much time — and should be commended for it.

Time Sensitive

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:54:29 GMT

I spent some time this afternoon building in time and weather sensitivity to my blog’s design. I spent absolutely zero time trying to phrase that last sentence so that I didn’t sound like a complete dork.

This redesign was partly driven by Smashing Magazine’s ‘30 dark designs’ article, partly driven by Amy spending all weekend blogging, and partly driven by the fact that ever since Dunstan Orchard took down his blog I’ve wanted to do something like this.

It’s a first step, there are only basic designs in place for sunny day, cloudy day and night. I think I’d definitely like to get a “twilight” one in there, maybe a rain or a snow, and then maybe a few easter eggs as I come up with them.

Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

30 dark designs you should’ve seen

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:16:17 GMT

Great work.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/13/30-dark-designs-you-shouldve-seen/

Scope in JavaScript

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:11 GMT

Oddly timely (for me)

Link: http://digital-web.com/articles/scope_in_javascript/

Optimal width for 1024px resolution?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

It’s 960px. I think I’ve been using 970px…

Link: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/001220.html

Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:23 GMT

Always a good choice, when you can get away with it

Link: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200504/fixed_or_fluid_width_elastic/

The web design trend obituary and death clock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:38 GMT

Guessing when popular trends in web design will finally die much as the “page curl” did before them.

Link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/01/the-web-design-trend-obituary-death-clock/

Eight web design warm fuzzy feelings

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:28 GMT

Things that great coders always manage to pull off, but still feel warm and fuzzy about them every time

Link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/03/23/8-web-design-warm-fuzzy-feelings/

Microsoft's first web page

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

Where do you want to go today? 1994.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm

Patterns in Interaction Design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

Examples and models for various web design problems

Link: http://www.welie.com/patterns/

Universal child replacement

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:10 GMT

An extremely useful CSS technique from Eric Meyer

Link: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/05/31/universal-child-replacement/

Jason asks, "have we jumped the shark?"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:09 GMT

As a fan of 37signals from day one I hate to see them raked over the coals like this — but I admit something about the atmosphere on SVN has changed recently

Link: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/have_we_jumped_the_shark.php?91#comments