Tuesday, November 1, 2005 –
I've done a great deal of reading, studying, and discussing usability for the Web, and while I've adapted a lot of my design and code practices to accommodate what people tell me is best, I have to draw the line somewhere.
This is the beginning of the resistance.
Welcome to the Fred Rebellion.
1. 800 x 600
The belief that most of the people in the world have at least this as their screen resolution, and using the principles of…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 –
Walk with us down memory lane, at http://old.imarc.net
We set up this site to "showcase" all the old versions of iMarc.net. No, we're not necessarily proud of that 1997 site design, but it's worth showing for a couple reasons:
We've been around for a long time - The sites from 1997 and 1998 are about 85 years old in "web years"
We've been making websites for a long time
It's interesting to see how styles have changed
This…
Friday, October 28, 2005 –
iMarc LLC (http://www.imarc.net) recently completed a large-scale web site for Springfield Museums (http://www.springfieldmuseums.org). The site encompasses the museum association, as well as four distinct subsites, one for each museum.
Springfield Museums' new sites have increased educational value with features specifically for educators, while the stylish, interactive design engages youth audiences. The sites enable the…
Thursday, October 27, 2005 –
According to Edward Tufte, professor, artist, and information designer, sparklines are intense, simple, word-sized graphics. Because Mr. Tufte invented sparklines, I won't argue the definition. I will, however, make an argument for more people, myself included, to implement these tiny information graphics.
Incorporating inline graphics in content allows readers to seamlessly gather information. Many financial sites link a company's name to…
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 –
Can we be serious here for a minute?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and tell you that design is more important than the code behind the design. I don't actually believe that, but I have to because I know that the average website visitor isn't visiting your site to see how it was made, but why it was made. Let's face it, your visitors are there because they want something from you.
The internet is an archive to a world of social satire. It's true,…
Monday, October 24, 2005 –
I saw our first 'non-iMarcian' comment yesterday, and it was asking about RSS. Not only have I never really built anything RSS related, I've never even looked into using it. Sounding like a fun challenge, at 6:30pm on Sunday I made my first Google search and within an hour and a half, I had an RSS feed for our blog ready to go.
Since things were so simple, I thought I'd share how I went about building things to maybe help those that are…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Monday, October 24, 2005 –
I really want a webmail that works for me. I have spent alot of time looking, but I still can't find it. Email is supposed to make my life easier, not harder. I don't want my email downloaded to a computer at home so I can't access it at work or vice versa. I want to be able to check all five of my email accounts in once place with one click. I want the basic functionality of Thunderbird in a webmail. Why is this so hard to find?
I have tried Gmail, Yahoo,…
Friday, October 21, 2005 –
I suppose this was only a matter of time. Of course, being the guy that kept pushing for it, I think this is a huge step forward for the company, although for now it may seem like just another blog. That being said, there's been a bit of discussion as to what should actually be posted over here.
Should this place be where we discuss what we're working on internally? How about new technologies that we come across? Maybe we should write about…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Friday, October 21, 2005 –
According to princeton.edu, Ajax is "a mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad". While certainly an interesting story, most of you are probably more interested in the mythic (web) hero AJAX.
Lots of web developers, and even just regular internet users, have been hearing this term being thrown around. You probably even know that it stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. It is a way for specific content on a web…
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