The 'how this was done' and 'what is that' of this weblog.
The motivation for the new look was, as always seems to be the case when redesigning here on Fiftyfoureleven, to shoehorn the site into the latest version of our CMS. Another ongoing theme is that the other design was never really finished... Read more »
Happily for me, I'll be there. If you happen to be going, please come up and say hello. If you are curious, I look a lot like the guy on the About page.
The API series, published every Wednesday, will not be published for the next two weeks (November 30th, December 7th). After publishing the tag articles, I need to finish integrating tags into the CMS, and with over 350 links waiting... Read more »
I know that I'm not the first to write about this, but one of the things that I do on a regular basis is keep small snippets of design around that I enjoy. Magazine clippings tend to end up in a box in my office, while screen captures litter... Read more »
CSS Reboot Before I get into details, I though I'd mention that this re-launch was part of the November 1st CSS Reboot, which allows you to give this new redesign a thumbs up or down, via a slick little Ajax voting script. Nice. There... Read more »
Links and Resources After having been up for a little over a year, I began to find the need to post little bits of news and ideas, things that were not necessarily worthy of full posts but stuff that I wanted to talk about nonetheless. I... Read more »
Objective Having spent a year working with my own home-grown blog script, I began to realize that things needed upgrading around here. To put it simply, I needed to make a better website from the ground up, built on a new framework that... Read more »
Sometime last week some very subtle changes were uploaded here, mostly affecting the comments area of the site. Besides a little restyling, now when you visit and you have a cookie from this site, your comments get a little orange glow... Read more »
Well, it's been a long time coming! We've been after this sort of 'control center' on our homepage ever since we saw the unused Kinja mock-ups and then their use over on Textbased. The missing link The missing factor all... Read more »
We'd been wanting too for awhile, and were finally inclined to make the swith to utf-8 by Anne Van Kesteren's Quick guide to UTF-8. There were a few glitches, and some time was lost due to an entity encoding bug in Opera (which,... Read more »
The link element A short while back I took the plunge and added a few instances of the Link element to the Head of the pages here on the weblog. I must admit that I have been a bit lax with respect to learning about this element and when... Read more »
Context Boxes Having hinted at it in a previous post, something that we first saw on Asterisk, then at Mezzoblue and Sidesh0w, context boxes have been added to the archived posts of this site. The right hand column here has been seriously... Read more »
For beta or for worse? over at 37signals and the Wired article Mo' Beta Testing Blues are two articles that discuss the proliferance of 'beta' products on the web today. In the Wired article, they quote both Jason Fried (of 37signals fame)... Read more »
Rather than write up a colophon for this weblog, we thought that having a colophon category would be the way to do it. That way, the colophon page would serve as a simple colophon category filter, and updates to the colophon would be more... Read more »
Just a short note to confirm what site visitors may have noticed over the last few days, and in particular this morning: things are evolving. Changes We're slowly starting to tighten up the blog script, and I am trying to tighten... Read more »
Well, if you can see this that means you're seeing the next version of fiftyfoureleven.com, a new site on a new server. It's been a while between posts, but a new 1500 page website and three new projects started, and we barely... Read more »