Design

This is the Design category, which contains articles, reviews, links, and updates about all aspects of design, with a focus on Web design like XHTML, and CSS.

Playgrounder is born

I’m totally thrilled to announce the launch of Playgrounder today, a website helping parents and kids find the very best stuff. In addition to daily product coverage and news, Playgrounder also features bite-sized articles on events, destinations, and services geared toward parents and kids.


Anonymous Pro: a programming font with style

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article discussing my top 10 programming fonts. You responded with a handful of suggestions for fonts that didn’t make it into the list, like Anonymous, by Mark Simonson. Yesterday, Mark released a brand new font, Anonymous Pro, which is so fantastic that it has become my monospace font of choice. Here are the details and screenshots.


ExpressionEngine: The Details

In a previous article, I discussed the switch from my Ruby on Rails publishing system to ExpressionEngine. In this article, I’ve written a more detailed breakdown including the list of feature requirements, plugins and modules, and some of the compromises I made as a part of this switch.


RSS Feed Apologies

Whereby I apologize for the recent RSS-feed issues, which may have caused you to endure ancient articles appearing as unread in your RSS reader.


The Safari Cookie Issue: Fixed

This is an article titled The Safari Cookie Issue: Fixed and was written by Dan Benjamin on 23 February 2009.

Why Your Avatar Matters

This is an article titled Why Your Avatar Matters and was written by Dan Benjamin on 04 February 2009.

Cork’d Has Been Acquired

Cork’d has been acquired by a newly formed company, helmed by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV fame. We’re psyched, and this means only great things for Cork’d members. Cork’d will remain a free, member-driven community. Its wine database will increase in a big way, the data will become more accurate, and tons of new features are already being added


Look Familiar?

This is an article titled Look Familiar? and was written by Dan Benjamin on 29 September 2006.

Introducing Cork’d

This is an article titled Introducing Cork’d and was written by Dan Benjamin on 17 May 2006.

Metamorphosis

This is an article titled Metamorphosis and was written by Dan Benjamin on 06 February 2006.

Random Image Rotation in Rails

This is an article titled Random Image Rotation in Rails and was written by Dan Benjamin on 01 December 2005.

A List Apart Relaunches

This is an article titled A List Apart Relaunches and was written by Dan Benjamin on 22 June 2005.