Category Archives: web design

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

I Haven’t Seen Any Post in my Google Reader Lately…

That’s what my good friend, Dan Mendelsohn, had to say to me yesterday.  And Dan is right, my last post was September 30…  that’s nearly, what, 4-5 months in Internet-time? Well, my lag has been (I think) well-justified…  We at … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Stumbled across a new developer tool, http://cssprism.com/, that grabs and displays all the colors from a single CSS file into an editable color palette.  When I first loaded the CSS file for this site, I have to say I was … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Once again, Apple has very simply made a product that is exactly as it should be: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html#video A really, really good tutorial for HTML5, using a blog as a working example. Qué apropo, no? http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/09/using-the-html5-sectioning-elements and it would seem that … Continue reading

Develop websites with @font-face!

So, @font-face has been around forever, right?  And it is never going to catch on, right?  We’re going to have to cut graphic headers for any good-looking font for the rest of our careers, right? Bah, I say! How do … Continue reading

Use FREE fonts and @font-face to develop your website

[Editors note: Check-out my other post for @font-face development details.] For YEARS we’ve been wanting to use @font-face to give us more than the, what, 6-7? web-safe fonts that we can comfortably use cross-browser… And while many prefer to bash … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Is everyone ready for yet another browser?  Well, at least this one is backed by Marc Andreessen, so, who knows, it might just be good! The latest from Mr. Resig (jQuery author), pretty cool graphically, but really only useful (I … Continue reading

Very Cool, Inspiring, Innovative Designs

http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/08/21/webdesign-trend-hunting-27-bright-websites-using-popping-colors/ http://abduzeedo.com/sites-week-65 http://designreviver.com/inspiration/25-creative-website-footers/ http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/colourful (check-out all the categories in the right column!) Happy designing, Atg Top⇪

Notes from Jesse James Garrett Talk

Had the pleasure of attending a very intimate presentation and discussion with Jesse James Garret and Tamara Wayland of span class=”vcard”>Adaptive Path, so I thought I’d share a few notes I took… I like that part of AP’s mission statement … Continue reading