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Mar 18  08

It’s here. The new Upstart Blogger design / realign. If you are still seeing some bold red text then force a page refresh until the new look appears. You’ll know when it loads. See the yellow lines? Good, you’re looking at the realign.
I’m sure there will be a few teething […]

Warning wet paint

Mar 17  08

As promised on Saturday here is a sneak preview of the Upstart Blogger realign. I had originally intended to make more changes but couldn’t bring myself to take away the best parts of what was a design that I already felt happy with. For instance, the structure of the blog post dates is […]

First look at the Upstart Blogger realign

Mar 15  08

Jazz musicians have a term for it. The time spent away from gigs honing their craft in private. It’s called the Woodshed. Once you are in it you can’t come out until you are ready.
Upstart Blogger needs a fresh coat of paint. The current design that I am so fortunate to […]

Woodshed

Mar 09  08

Sadly, despite the best attempts of website designers all over the world, Apple, Mozilla, and the combined forces of The Web Standards Project, Internet Explorer is still, unbelievably, the dominant web browser. It has always been this way and probably always will be. All the time Windows is the dominant operating system, and Internet Explorer […]

Run any version of Internet Explorer on a Mac in OSX for free

Mar 07  08

The new Upstart Blogger design was all set to launch today. I was happy that I made enough changes to give it a fresh face while still retaining it’s minimalist design aesthetic.
At lunchtime today the design was finished. I dropped the logo idea, preferring to keep a clean text only design. […]

Internet explorer turns Upstart Blogger redesign into a dog’s breakfast

Mar 05  08

I had to spend some time cleaning up my email subscriptions today. All those Yahoo groups can take their toll on an inbox and, despite their usefulness, something had to done before my morning email routine became much more time consuming than it should be.
So, one by one I went through my groups to […]

Banner blindness

Feb 23  08

Occasionally a new font comes along that becomes an instant winner. Archer, the colorful slab serif from Hoefler & Frere-Jones is described by it’s makers, very accurately I might add, as follows.
Sweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.
Readable and […]

The greater the font the bigger the risk