Someone I follow on Twitter (CodeVixen) sent out a link to Font Library, an open source project intended to tag and organize Google Fonts. If you’re a little typography-challenged at times like I am, you can shop by tag and the site displays a sample of each font on the page so that you can see…
I recently migrated from a PC desktop at work to a MacBook Air. I’m used to working on a MacBook in my personal life after buying one close to two years ago. What I’m not used to is the Thunderbolt display I acquired at work. And I’m in love! I’ve been playing with the idea of transitioning…
I’ve been discussing section 508 compliance and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) on a project. As an illustration of the importance of adhering to basic standards, I used this video on Vimeo that gives an idea of the experience a vision-impaired user has when viewing the Twitter web site with a screen reader. It’s pretty powerful!…
I started my account with Dreamhost eight years ago in February of 2006. Changing hosts was much simpler then, as I had a single HTML-based web site. Today it means moving nearly two dozen web sites, most of which are powered by backend databases. Complicating things further, many of them are web sites on which…
As I sit here redesigning davidcarr.org, it dawns on me that I kind of wish I had captured a screen shot of each previous generation of the site. It would be neat to see the transition/improvement across time. I have all the backups (I think) from the past 12 years.. I guess I could pull…