10.03.08
Posted in Design, Personal at 10:19 pm by Ben
A new design for my portfolio and a new design for the blog. This has been, unfortunately, too long in coming due to life, work, and a general laziness on my part. I think what finally drove me to finish it up and get the new designs online was a sense of exhaustion from the demands of work - I needed to do something different. Looking at my source code, in particular at my stylesheet for this WordPress theme, I’m sure you’ll note that I’ve done little for that headache of a browser that is Internet Explorer 6. The reasons are quite simple - I wanted to do something beyond catering to the lowest common denominator, something I didn’t have to make design compromises for and also something that could explore the capabilities of modern browsers. I know I’ll probably be revisiting the WordPress theme, as right now it’s a tad to “minimalist” to my taste. Although in webkit-powered browsers you’ll find some nice subtle goodies.
But enough for now. Does it work? Anything messed up and needing fixing? Let me know about it in the comments.
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09.19.08
Posted in Design, Work at 9:52 pm by Ben
I have an interesting design “problem” I’m working on. A client wants a new website. They would like it to become a useful and usable resource. The target audience for this site come from rural or economically-challenged demographics. So bandwidth and old technology constraints are real issues that need to be addressed by the design. Quite an interesting challenge in that regard. The client however seems to really want to use Flash - mainly just to rotate some imagery around. In other words, it serves no useful purpose other then decoration. Normally that would be fine, but considering the target audience and the constraints we’re dealing with, I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to add Flash. What do you think?
Update: So the after some discussion, the client decided to do go ahead with Flash movie, understanding that perhaps some of the target audience would not see it or have an optimal experience with it. The client did reduce the amount of images that the Flash movie uses, which reduced the file size some 100 Kb which is good.
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09.10.08
Posted in Applications, Technology at 9:43 pm by Ben
This is more of a “anyone know what might be the problem?” post. I recently tried upgrading to Firefox 3 on my laptop, a 2006 MacBook Pro. The problem is that I can’t start Firefox. It continually crashes. Even in safe-mode. I even tried removing my old Firefox user profiles and starting with a new one. Still no go. So is anyone aware of why Firefox 3 continues to crash? Anyone have any tips on how to troubleshoot this?
*Update*: I just recently moved to using my laptop as my primary machine (~90%). To do this I used the excellent Migration Assistant. I basically overwrote my hardly-used user account on my laptop with my desktop’s user account. But I hadn’t upgraded to Firefox3 on the laptop wheras I had on my desktop. And it turns out Firefox 2 user accounts are not compatible with 3, thus causing much crashing and never starting after I tried to update Firefox on my laptop! So I just logged into my old desktop and copied over all the ~/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox files to my laptop into the proper location. And everything now works.
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