I’m not sure if this is big news to all of you, but for designers/developers who work on sites run with Movable Type, it’ll probably be useful. Up till now, if you used custom submit images at the bottom of a comment form the entire comment-posting process wouldn’t work the way you expected. Either a comment would get previewed, but not posted, or it would put the user at the wrong template afterwards and wouldn’t record the comment. This behavior bothered me back when I was designing this iteration of the Business Logs site, since I had custom submit images all made up, but I could never figure out the problem.
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LAUNCH: Niall Kennedy’s Weblog
After working with The Gigga Man on his site, it only seemed fair that I redesign his buddy Niall Kennedy’s site as well 😉 Niall’s launch entry has some really positive comments so far, which makes my week much better. Here’s a screenie:
XHTML Semantic Zen
The beauty of writing good XHTML is that it relieves me of my normal design duties. Design takes place in the creative side of my brain, whereas XHTML coding fully occupies the rational and logical half. After being mired in Photoshop for days and weeks on end, it’s so nice to debate if something should be an H3 or an H4 instead of manually kerning a logo for a half-hour until it’s perfect. The zen simplicity of beautiful and semantic XHTML somehow puts me into a trance-like state, clearing my mind of those dastardly misbehaving pixels who haunt my dreams at night.
And in other news …… I need to lay off the LSD!
The Domain Name Game
For a new company, a good domain name is like an office on Madison Ave. (or the similar San Francisco equivalent!) and if you’re starting your company now or soon, you basically have four choices:
Valleywag Launches
Nick Denton’s first foray into the world of tech gossip is now live, and the site is called Valleywag, written by Nick Douglas of Blogebrity. I’m hoping that this blog on blogs is less lame that the dozens of other blog on blogs people have come up with, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it pans out. And what’s with the fuzzy pixel fonts in the logo? Not only did pixel fonts go out with the dodo, but fuzzy pixel fonts are the bane of every designer’s existence. Bane!
Big up to Nick since he writes about 9rules once in awhile. I’m expecting that courtesy to stop immediately, not only because I just busted his chops in this entry, but because he’s a big mothercuffer now and us little guys were his stepping stones. 🙂