Qualify

== Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web. – Jeffrey Zeldman, discussing the backward web design methods used by a prominent agency…

White-hot

==== I recently finished the site for Jessica White photography. I could wax verbose, but suffice it to say it’s clean, lean and done. So go “have a look”:http://jessicawhitephoto.com … and keep your eyes open for a familiar face. Also keep your eyes open for Jessica’s portrait photography site, Bliss Portraits. I simply love how…

I Heart Adagio Teas

Just a quick lil note to tell you, the wonderfully attractive reader of my site and/or newsfeeds, that I am an addict. A tea addict. A few months back I stumbled upon “Adagio Teas”:http://adagio.com and well, that just fuelled the fire. I was used to cheapo bag teas, and frankly I didn’t know what I…

Trolley

bq. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12 — Five people were killed and several others were injured in a Salt Lake City mall Monday night when a gunman went on a shooting rampage that ended when the police fatally shot him, the authorities said. — “New York Times”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/us/13slay.html ====Some of you may know that I live…

Mr Coggins

“Happy Cog”:http://happycog.com redesigns. “People”:http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/february#thu-08-zeldman_cog “love”:http://www.beatnikpad.com/bagatelle/ “it.”:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2007/02/08/happycog.html GB thinks it is swell. (It’s very Stan. GB likes Stan’s stuff). People repeatedly mention sentence as navigation as being so wonderful and clever. GB wonders if people would have made the same fuss about his “paragraph as navigation”:http://gregorybowers.com/ had he put it on every page. GB thinks not.…

Gold Rocket Horse

On his first million. GirlFriend: So you’re going to buy me a pony, right? BoyFriend: No, I’m going to buy ME a pony. Made of gold. With rockets. GF: And then with the rest you’re going to buy me a pony, right? BF: I don’t think there will be anything left after I get my…