A Bridge Just Far Enough

We have a rural-style mailbox, on a post at the side of the road. There is a small drainage ditch between said mailbox and our front door. It’s not too hard to navigate, but I’ve been wanting a little bridge across it for quite a while now. So I finally built one.

I measured and sketched and bought lumber and had the nice young man cut the 1x6s for Read More

Potential Client Quiz

I wonder if you could implement a brief quiz as a captcha on contact forms for potential clients. Maybe to eliminate some, maybe just to know where they’re coming from. Read More

New Digs

No offense to Press75, which makes some fine themes, but I just couldn’t take having this place styled by someone else. Like living in a hotel or something. Read More

Firefox Crawlbar Issue

I have a great distaste for crawlbars on websites,. They are barely tolerable when they are necessary to accommodate super-wide content, but most of the time, they appear in complete inappropriate situations and make the user experience icky. Who wants content that wobbles?

So you can imagine my consternation when I viewed a current project in Firefox and it was generating this tiny crawlbar for no apparent reason. Read More

Reboot

I used to blog. I blogged with others, I blogged on my own. And then I didn’t anymore. The long form started to seem kind of quaint, what with the instant pleasure of Twitter to drown out the scrolly posts.

These days I find myself pining a bit for that quaint long form. I want to talk about design—truth be told, art—more than 140 characters at a time. Read More