Here and there I do a little pro-bono project as I imagine many web designer/developer types are prone to do. I am not sure what it is about the web but occasionally it demands of us our time and effort on something we know will never pay out. I don’t think you’d see the same [...]
I posted earlier last month about my excitement involving my chance to attend An Event Apart in Minneapolis this year. I just wanted to take a couple minutes and write my thoughts, impressions and opinions about the conference. As this was my first conference and I had heard so much about the quality (and of course the major [...]
So when I am not too busy on the weekend I’ll take a few hours to to sit down and work on a “just-for-fun” web project. Sometimes it is something for me, sometimes it is a learning project or a design project with no real aim, but recently my friend James Krantz and I have [...]
Tags: development, plugin, widget, wordpressI waited the full ten days for the shipping of A Book Apart’s first “brief book” HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. A Book Apart is a joint venture by Jeffery Zeldman, Mandy Brown and Jason Santa Maria dedicated to making short books, 90 pages in this case, for the folks on the front [...]
Tags: A Book Apart, HTML5, Jeremy KeithI have been looking for ways to improve my stylesheets ever since I started writing them. The first stylesheets I had written were disorganized, unstructured and when I look back at them I usually don’t like what I see in so many ways. Writing CSS is one thing, writing good CSS is another thing. I [...]
I sometimes get too caught up in code and wordpress and on and on with all the semicolons and brackets, functions, objects, variables and all the rest to remember that I enjoy and at times can be quite good at (if only in my mind) designing the web experience. Of course, I have been trying [...]
Tags: design, sneak peakA lot of talk in the web industry at various times has gone into a debate over the issue of “above the fold” and “below the fold” or more commonly just “the fold”. This debate seems to pop up now and then and the general discussion always circulates around the importance of what falls above [...]
Tags: content aggregation, information architecture, the fold, user interface designIf anyone is keeping up with my progress on this site in the trial/soft-launch period of the new davidsiegfried.com here is what I have learned this evening. typekit.com I have been having some problems with typekit and the problems were two-fold. First, in case you are unaware of typekit, it is a web application that [...]
Tags: @font-face, css3, typekit, typography, upcoming site workI am super, phenomenally excited to announce that Creature Works Labs, my current employer, has decided to send me to An Event Apart Minneapolis. As someone who is more or less addicted to learning all there is to know about how to create great web experiences this is something that will really bring a year [...]
Tags: an event apart, Career, learningAbout a year ago I decided the internet was the way for me. Though I had spent four years of college dancing around the subjects not altogether unrelated to the web (which further blog posts will discuss) and my entire life from about the age of 12 enjoying working with computers, the web and other [...]
Tags: Career, education, growth