I’ve tried keeping an analytical, objective, detached attitude towards Google. After all, it is a multi-gazillion-dollar-a-year company that may very well put my privacy at risk on the ‘net some day. However, as a user & admited lover of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Poodle, etc. – I hate to admit that the new […]
Great Typography May Not Win You The Election
I’m not alone in noting that Barack Obama’s campaign is showing one of the most sophisticated uses of typography during an election year in recent memory. Consistency in the elegant use of the Gotham typeface and the distinctive graphical elements that carry through from print to web to television are a graphic designer’s dream come […]
Oh What A Tweetooth we have! OverTweeted!
Ha! Just went to tweet and got the ‘Tweeter Is Over Capacity’. “What are you doing?,” it asks “Wondering about you,” I reply. What could the webizens be Tweeting about? Is it the time of day? Is is something in the news? I’m curiously pondering and eagerly awaiting to tweet. Let me in!!
Tylenol Shown to CAUSE Headaches … “We’re sorry, but we do not support your browser.”
Having been given doctors orders to use the Oral Suspension version of Tylenol (bascially bubble-gum flavored goop Children’s tylenol), I headed over to the McNeill site to check out some product info. I’m a happy customer visiting the site on my new Mac running OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 2.0.0.16 … so, NOT quite an antiquated […]
Girls Under Trees
Jared Spool’s excellent keynote address this past week at the 2008 Higher Ed Web Symposium @ UPenn was the perfect mix of humor and invaluable information. First, He really dug at us (Higher Eds) hard when he noted the overuse of the ‘girls under trees’ photocliche on many University homepages. As a female myself, I […]
Drop it Like it’s Drupal!
Ok, Drupal is Sexy and it’s Hot! I just spent two days at the Higher Education Web Symposium 2008 hosted by UPenn Medicine. First, the UPenn staff did an amazing job. Kudos to UPenn and in particular Ben Adams, the choreographer of the event! I was lucky enough to meet Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, a Drupal Evangelist […]
Drupal Modules and Learning Curve
Granted, Drupal gives you LOTS of power right-out-of the box. However, to really leverage the power of ‘The Drupe’, you really need to dig deep into the modules area. It is obvious that you can accomplish pretty much anything, any layout, any content view or type, if you just look hard enough. Themeing was interesting, […]
Ning or Drupal?
Originally, I had planned to build out the accepted applicants portal/community site in Ning. Drupal offers way more control and can be hosted internally. More on this later.
Theming in Drupal
Just started theming in Drupal. Everytime I’ve got my hands inside the Drupal engine I get giggly. Drupal is a beauty — I’ve begun building out the community site for a local Philadelphia bike racing team. I will follow that up with a build-out of a community site for accepted applicants at the Law School. […]
The Buzz: Create Your OWN Social Network
I recently joined the University Webmasters Social Network (http://cuwebd.ning.com/) on NING. The flexibility that Ning, and similar (what I call) “SockNet” sites has big and positive implications for smaller Universities in particular. One-stop centralized do-it-yourself solutions like these can be leveraged in a variety of ways to bring University communities closer together: faculty and students […]