CSS Bloom posts screen shots of home pages with drop-dead gorgeous CSS chops in evidence. And since we are in the era of Social Networking, and Audience Participation, voting is enabled. You can also tag the selections, and then search by tag. Or color. Great source for inspiration.
ComputerUser Kansas City folded with this month’s issue, and my monthly column for them folds along with it. I have five articles in the pipeline for them, so they’ll find their exposure here as before. There’s just nothing like the smell of newsprint with your own name on it. A computer monitor and a web page just doesn’t have the same feel.
So, more to come in this space real soon.
ma.gnolia is the latest and most interesting approach to keeping web-based references in order and searchable. Using tags to categorize and label links in a web-based interface was the driving force behind del.icio.us. ma.gnolia (the gnolia is the company doing the back of the house work on the site) extends this to a community by allowing people to aggregate links based on affiliation.
So you can join a group of like-minded individuals that share an interest and bookmarks online. Add a tool to allow bookmarks to be added with a single click. This allows me to quickly make a site or page available in ma.gnolia with the ability to tag it later and share it with the group.
Then, add RSS to subscribe to your own bookmarks from any browser and add a search tool that also searches tags and annotations. Say good-bye to single computer bookmark lists that are never quite organized.
Highly recommended.
The Reboot has happened and the votes are coming in. Nice work here
CSS Reboot is a challenge to web designers to remake and rebuild their sites and activate the new look on May 1.
The votes are starting to come in. 15 pages of screenshots, with about 400-plus rebooters. Lots of great work, lots of inspirations. This always comes back to needle me to get it done for the next one, as I want to get a new look on here.
Flash Player and Adobe Reader in one place
This was blindingly obvious once I saw it. I had to build a new drive image after a hard drive failed mechanically. Downloading the latest versions of the usual tools, I saw that I could download Flash Player and Adobe Reader from the same 3 square inches on Adobe’s home page. What a deal.
One advantage already coming out of the merger or acquistion or whatever you want to call Adobe swallowing macromedia.
I noticed another interesting change that I’ll have to test. Installing Flash 8 Player didn’t require a browser restart. And Adobe/macromedia had a rather cool, understated Flash document signaling the plug-in’s successful installation.
Doesn’t take much to make me happy. . .
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Talking to myself, mostly.
