Wednesday, December 7, 2005 –
The "Law of Unintended Consequences" states that when you change a system, there will be resulting changes that you could not predict, and did not intend.
When I was in high school, our guidance counselors told us that many of us would someday have jobs that didn't even exist yet. (I, of course, didn't believe them.) Over a decade later, we have interactive designers, web developers, and information architects, all developing strategy and…
Monday, December 5, 2005 –
In an attempt to convey our different views, a couple of us iMarcians have started an art project which for now we're calling Hybrid7. (Mainly because we're squatting on one of Craig's domains.)
http://www.hybrid7.com
This project is an attempt to explore who we are, what we see and how we interact with the everyday things around us. The premise is simple: weekly, the three of us (Craig, Christian and I) will each find two items…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Friday, December 2, 2005 –
Recently, iMarc's team page needed to be updated -- there wasn't room for new people. A designer was tasked with updating the page to support a larger team, and make it easy to update. He designed a really cool whiz-bang interactive Flash interface. Updates would be easy -- new photo, add a text file, export the Flash to web, done.
Then our technical director walked in and asked to see it, and said "Wait, what about accessibility? The…
Thursday, December 1, 2005 –
iMarc welcomes Robert Mohns and Christian Keyes.
Robert Mohns will be working with the sales and business development team, assisting with strategy and technical aspects of project planning. His official title is Information Architect.
Robert has been working on various web projects since 1995, and has a vast knowledge on almost anything Internet-related. In his spare time, Robert is a contributing author at MacInTouch.com.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 –
Robert Mohns, the latest super-genius addition to Team iMarc, just pointed out this uniquely helpful navigation:
That's a nice idea that greentea design had. The preview icons show what furniture style is behind each navigation item.
Monday, November 21, 2005 –
I won't lie, I don't know much about Photoshop. I've recently installed version 9.0 (or CS2 if you're into letters) and among other gripes I have about how things work now, hex color values are in lowercase.
I've never used lowercase hex values, and I don't think I ever plan to (until the W3C requires them to be valid, which they will do just to spite me).
Is there anyway to change this back to uppercase? #7d1e1c is ugly, and converting them all to…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Friday, November 18, 2005 –
This week's A List Apart has a really interesting article about accessibility and search engine optimization. To sum it up, whitehat search engine optimization is more effective than blackhat search engine optimization. What exactly is the difference between whitehat and blackhat and why should you care?
Whitehat SEO is optimization of a site by making it simple, well written, accessible, and all around user friendly. Blackhat SEO refers to the…
Friday, November 18, 2005 –
As we all know, there are only a couple of reliable fonts for the Web these days (and I suppose the ever-growing Linux crowd that becomes even less true everyday). Of course I'm speaking of the basic fonts that everyone seems to have: Arial, Times, etc. My question is this, since we only have a limited number of fonts that are cross-platform available, why can't they all be good ones?
My idea: let's infect the Web with good fonts. We should…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Thursday, November 17, 2005 –
Over at ACMQueue, there's a great article by Adam Bosworth from Google called Learning from THE WEB
Adam's primary points are:
Simple, relaxed, sloppily extensible text formats and protocols often work better than complex and efficient binary ones.
It is worth making things simple enough that one can harness Moore's law in parallel
It is acceptable to be stale much of the time.
The wisdom of crowds works amazingly well.
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