Pop Art Blog

One major annoyance between the Mac and PC versions of Firefox 3 is the position of the “Done” button on the Add Bookmark dialog. On a Mac, the button is on the right. On a PC, it’s on the left. I won’t comment on which is better, just that the difference breaks my muscle memory and is driving me up the wall, and causing me to lose bookmarks that I think I’ve saved. The only saving grace here is that “Done” is the default action on both, so what I really... Read More...

SelecTrucks We're nearing the end of the SelecTrucks project, and only launched one site this month: Tampa . I really like the water in the design, with the little diver swimming through. Carrier We did some small projects for Carrier this month, mostly SEM tweaks. The cool part is that we added a media center, which will be going live soon. One of our designers, Ben, put a lot of work into getting a flash video player working, so that we can set up a cool XML-driven player, that will let the... Read More...

Here's a good article from Digital Web Magazine titled " Preparing For Widescreen ," about the shift in laptops towards widescreen-format displays, and what that means for designing websites. -- via Airbag The basic idea they're promoting is to build a site that is capable of going three-column for widescreen users, but dropping down to two (or even one) columns for narrower resolutions. Having spent my lunch hour at the Apple store loading various sites on the 30-inch display, I can say that a little... Read More...

CNN is sporting a clean new style. Looks to me like they've been heavily inspired by Macintosh, with all the soft grey gradients and pseudo-metal interface bits. -- via Airbag Read More...