Every day, I have little stabs of envy when I see the Photoshop tutorials for zarious cool things people do with Photoshop, and wonder why we can’t do that with GIMP. Well, we can. In that spirit, I’ve taken How to Create a Stunning Vista-Inspired Menu and reproduced it with the GIMP.  So [...]

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Following up on the The Onion’s announcement that they’re using Django comes this priceless discussion of the technical challenges of doing so with several members of The Onion’s technical team. They were using Drupal before.
Among the things I discovered:

Grappelli, a customizable theme for the Django admin
uWSGI, a high-performance WSGI container separated from Apache,
HaProxy, a [...]

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I recently implemented a new subsite for IndieFlix using LessCss, the Leaner CSS metaframework. LessCss is a programming language that abstracts CSS out into a hierarchal language, where instead of writing:
#header { … }
#header img { … }
You write:
#header {
…
img { … }
}
Which, believe me, makes [...]

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Sharper FX
They do nothing but churches. Black churches, too. Sharper FX is an 11 on the scale of Manliness. Watch some of the Flash splash pages. They’re amazing. I love this site.

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A friend of mine pointed me to the website of CB Richard Ellis, a real-estate investment and management house with a big footprint here in the Pacific Northwest.
Their hiring website is a horror. No, really, go look, unless you’re an epileptic. (Sadly, the effect only seems to be present for [...]

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Cheesy law firm website templates are multi-colored, busy, poorly laid-out, and tend to go for light-on-dark themes where the seriousness of the business is emphasized by leather and wood textures, spot lighting, and so forth.
A review of the websites of the largest law firms in the US shows two things: a lot of them don’t [...]

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I’ve been trying to do a design thing every week.  I doodle a lot, and make lots of scratches, and I might show you a few of those, but as a web developer I have to keep my hand into the design side of things.  Recently, the magazine Photoshop User had an article on doing [...]

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While visiting with friends and family this weekend, I ran into a long-missed flame who said she was frustrated because she’d gone back to school to renew her web design business, last heard from about a decade ago, but the school seemed insistent about teaching her programming instead. Her head was full of PHP [...]

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Sigh.
I’ve just spent the last few hours wandering around the various “open source” analytics programs trying to find the exact right fit for what I want.  I’m not finding it, which means that (headache ahead) I may have to write something myself.  There’s a django-analytics placeholder in GoogleCode, but it’s empty.  I at least have [...]

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Want.
The link above leads to a 40-card set like the child’s game “Memory,” but with 20 different typefaces. The object, obviously, is to find the two cards in the same typeface. It’s such a brilliant idea, and so charmingly executed, that I can’t wait for it to be commercially available. It reminds [...]

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