Category Archives: web design

Today’s Readings

So, how did this Inter-web-thingy get started, anyhow?  An interesting piece I stumbled across… I have to admit that I do not know who Michael Bierut is (you designers may now cringe), but if Cameron Moll is impressed with the … Continue reading

Introducing the New & Improved aarontgrogg.com

Since the day I launched this blog, I basically stopped thinking about my name-sake page, aarontgrogg.com.  I converted it to a portal page, just linking out to the various locations you can find information about me on the web, and … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Think you know JavaScript?  Well try giving Dmitry Baranovskiy‘s #jsquizz a shot (I can’t seem to find #jsquizz on Twitter, and unfortunately the actual post is experiencing some technical difficulties right now, but hopefully he’ll have things resolved soon, maybe … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

For you designy-types out there, the Vintage Ad Browser is pretty fun to scroll through.  The About page claims they are all real ads from days gone by, so, I guess they are… Also quite entertaining is the Cover Browser…  … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

It’s nearly the holiday season, and what better gift to give your website visitors than sprucing things up with, what else, @font-face?!  Jonathon Snook comes across a really great technique for trimming the fat from font files and avoiding FOUT!  … Continue reading

Today’s Reading

Still one of my favorite sites to look at, and easily one of the best examples of progressive CSS enhancements, 24Ways offers a really nice summation of where @font-face is right now, what you can expect from the various browsers, … Continue reading

Google’s “Browser Size”: What Does it Really Tell You?

Check out these couple links before proceeding: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-browser-size.html For those that skipped right past the above links, to summarize: a couple lads at Google, in their 20% time, have created a system that tracked the browser window size … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Okay, this will be brief, I just wanted to show a couple really cool articles I recently read…  :-) First up is a truly inspiring look at a few new HTML5 entities from 24Ways.  Remy Sharp focuses on two new … Continue reading

The UX Test Kitchen is Now an Award-Winning Agency!!

Well, what do you know? It turns out that if you take a group of dedicated individuals that all try really hard to do the best that they can, some times people actually recognize it!  :-) The UX Test Kitchen … Continue reading

The Orphaned Starfish Foundation Site Launch and Gala

The UX Test Kitchen, a non-profit interactive agency that I co-founded and for which I serve as lead developer, recently launched its latest client site: The Orphaned Starfish Foundation.  The Orphaned Starfish Foundation (OSF) is a non-profit that works to … Continue reading