Archives for September, 2006
An Event Apart Seattle
"It's a myth that you need a great client. It's possible to do great work for a terrible client — if you're willing to extend the scope of the project indefinitely." – Jeffrey Zeldman I already blogged about An Event Apart over on my personal blog, but I figured I should at least mention it here. Pop [...]
August Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched four SelecTrucks sites this month, and all four feature landscape shots. Denver has a nice big mountain, and lots of wet-floor reflections on their photos. Cleveland has several landmarks in a photomontage, Twin Cities has a great landscape shot at sunset, while Seattle has a very nice cityscape, including the space needle. All [...]
July Accomplishments
SelecTrucks Three SelecTrucks sites launched this month: Las Vegas, Charlotte, and Springfield. Vegas is a funny design, kinda dirty like a worksite, Charlotte is obviously Nascar-themed, and Springfield… Well, let's just say that Springfield is special. Dave, the designer, said that it was something he comped up for fun, and was suprised when the client went [...]
An Event Apart Seattle: The After-Party
After dropping off our laptops at the hotel, we headed to the after-party at the Alibi Bar in Pike Place Market, thrown by Blue Flavor. It’s a tiny, dark little bar, and it was really loud inside. It seemed like everyone was there, but since there were something like 200 people at the event, it [...]
An Event Apart Seattle: Liveblogging the Event!
We’re here! It’s 8:50, and the big screen is showing a slideshow of photos that they guys must have taken yesterday when they got into town. The conference room is really nice – slightly elevated rows as you move back in the room, with Aeron chairs at the desks for each row (no power for [...]
An Event Apart Seattle: The Day Before
Yesterday, Ryan and I got off the train in Seattle around 4pm. We caught a bus up to Hotel Andre, where we found we had a really nice suite on the 9th floor, where we had a bit of a view of the bay between a few apartment buildings. Since we had a few hours [...]
Who’s Responsible for Accessibility?
Jeff Croft recently wrote a fascinating post and a followup which boiled down to asking where the responsibility for accessibility lies: the web designer, or the software used to access the website? His argument is that "the burden of accommodating the minorities should fall on the operating system and browser makers." This question really dropped [...]
Reversed Type Opinions
I find it fascinating that I keep stumbling across debates about whether light text on a dark background is readable/usable or not. There seem to be two camps: Those who argue that you should never use reversed type, because it's not accessable, and people who argue that it's not a big deal for various reasons. Light [...]
