As a designer I am regularly adding logos to printed pieces and websites. These are usually for sponsorships or partnerships or associations or whatever. It is also common to make regular requests to whomever I am work with to retrieve good, usable versions of company logos. This person then contacts said company representative–who is likely [...]
Have you ever been in gmail looking for a particular email within a label and not find it? If you’re like me, you’re diligent about labeling email to ensure all of a particular type of email stays in one place. Every now and again, I find that the email that I’m looking for is one [...]
Now that Twitter is a part of everyone’s marketing plan, I receive more and more “so-and-so is now following you” notifications each day. These teasers wish and hope I’ll be enticed enough to visit the fake profile of what looks like the mail-order Russian bride I was so enchanted by when I was younger. The [...]
I don’t mind getting emails that are passed around from one person to another. I’m not a particular fan of what I like to call ‘life lists’–emails with lists of wisdoms and suggestions about how to live your life–but I understand that they strike with people and they just want to help others out and [...]
A nice article about the tribulations of managing your inbox. The author, Mr. Manjoo, discusses the process everyone goes through once they decide to try to wrangle their email. We attempt to categorize, label and filter our way out of the mess but find that it only creates more work to do and does not [...]
Google is providing a crash course of sorts for Google Analytics. After completing the video series (or before, whenever) you can purchase and take a test to be recognized as a person who understands GA.
A bit of javascript and jquery to compare the height of the page content vs. the height of the window. In this case, I’m adding a class to another class if the content is shorter.
// if the content of the page is less than the height of the window…
if (document.body.scrollHeight < document.documentElement.clientHeight)
{
$(“.foot-wrap”).addClass(“shortpage”);
}
update: I had to [...]
Nice article from Kevin Potts about minding the details. I myself must aspire to better cover all bases. As a designer, I want to be unappreciated for all the right reasons.