http://louissimoneau.com Web Technology & Design Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SitePoint.com is giving away a free .pdf book, The Art and Science of CSS, for a limited 14 day period. All you have to do is follow @sitepointdotcom on twitter and they'll direct-message you a link. And if you don't use twitter, the usual SitePoint giveaway method works too, just go to ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/11/you-cant-argue-with-free/ Ryan Singer (@rjs) of 37signals posted this video about the user interface at Ffffound!: UI Highlights from Ffffound from Ryan Singer on Vimeo. I think the idea of jumping to the next or previous page when using the keyboard shortcuts to navigate past the "end" of the current page is a great ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/11/fffound-keyboard-shortcuts-and-pagination/ Great article from Khoi Vinh (creator, among other things, of NYTimes.com's amazing grid layout design), about the similarities between video game design and web design (and design in general): Subtraction 7.1: Game On. http://louissimoneau.com/2008/11/subtraction-71-game-on/ YouTube - An anthropological introduction to YouTube. Michael Wesch, creator of the classic Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us video, gives a talk about the anthropology of YouTube at the Library of Congress.  Well worth your time if you're interested in the anthropological/sociological dimensions of the Web. http://louissimoneau.com/2008/08/youtube-an-anthropological-introduction-to-youtube/ Seth's Blog: Is architect a verb?. Seth Godin's blog has an interesting little piece on the use of the word "architect" as a verb to mean "design with intent" (as opposed to "design to look pretty"), which is pretty much exactly my point.  To wit: Most broken websites aren't broken because they ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/08/seths-blog-is-architect-a-verb/ In her review of Google's Knol project (sort of like Wikipedia, except each article is written by a single person, ideally an authority on the topic), danah boyd dropped a one-liner that kind of set me off: Y'see - a system that is driven by individualism quickly becomes a tool for ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/08/googles-knol-and-gender-issues-in-social-software-design/ So I've been incredibly frustrated trying to theme Drupal 5.x over the past few months.  Now, I'll admit that this was my own fault, but the problem I ran into isn't very clearly documented anywhere, so I figured I'd post the explanation here so that anyone else Googling it might ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/07/drupal-theming-theme_node-vs-nodetplphp/ Sometimes web design doesn't happen on the web: witness user lamedust's video from instructables.com: What does this have to do with web design, you ask?  One of the things I want to communicate through this blog is my belief that web design, properly speaking, is the architecture of channels of communication.  ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/07/web-design-in-the-real-world/ Hi all.  This blog will be a clearing-house for my ideas on web technology and design, mainly focused on the design of 'social software', and the societal and political facets of said design and technologies.  I also have a "microblog" on music at newsound.tumblr.com, where I'll post songs, music videos, ... http://louissimoneau.com/2008/07/brand-new-blog/