In Which the Ol’ Blog Gets Another Redesign
Another haircolor, another blog theme. Here, we have Structure from Organic Themes. Pretty, innit? It’s a bit more complicated than my previous theme, Cutline, but it lets me show off posts and images in an entirely new way. Needless to say, I like it. Do you?
In Which I Show You A Nifty CSS Trick for Rollovers
Check out the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing JolieODell.com! It’s practically a lightswitch rave, folks! Anytime you mouse over an EQ column, all the squares turn bright blue/green/orange/pink/whatever. It’s a dynamic digital signpost to my nine most-used locations on the social web, and you know what my favorite thing about it is? It’s 9 JPEGs and a … Read more
In Which the Ol’ Blog Gets a Typekit Makeover
Dudes, have you tried Typekit’s stupidly simple and totally free WordPress kits? I got to pick two great typefaces for the ol’ blog here, choose the classes they apply to, and publish my newly prettified blog with one click of a little green button. I highly recommend y’all do the same. For those who host … Read more
Twitter Backgrounds: A Few Notes on Web Design
When designing for Twitter’s web interface, as so many in-house interactive marketing folk are now pressed to do, the range of options is limited. You can choose a few colors and a background image. Unfortunately, the main content area of your Twitter page is always going to be totally opaque white with black text. You … Read more
Trends in Web Design: That Paper Cut-Out Thing
Lately, I’ve been looking for web design trends that will completely shake off the iShiny 2.0 look that I’m so very sick of. One trend that’s come to my attention lately is the paper cut-out effect. Voici:
