Category Archives: Design

About that homepage makeover

Posted on December 22, 2006 by Craig

We released stage one of a progressive College homepage makeover during the first week of November. I almost can’t believe I haven’t had a good chance to write about it until now. The overall goal of the makeover series is … Continue reading →

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My essential Firefox extensions

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Craig

My office computer was upgraded last week and we all know that means a go ’round of re-installs. I thought I’d take a few moments and list my favorite Firefox extensions here (alphabetically). ColorZilla – an “eye dropper” tool for … Continue reading →

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A Library Web Assist

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Craig

I helped out the library with a little template action yesterday. They were using something similar to the old version of the College template, which I helped them out with years ago. They needed to be on the library system’s … Continue reading →

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The great wordmark hunt

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Craig

The University launched a new identity and signature system this week. I spent the better part of a day hunting down the old ones and replacing them with the new. Probably greater than 90% were fixed by simple changes within … Continue reading →

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A minor/major facelift

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Craig

I just released a new version of the template for this blog. I started working on this last week and it was all done except a little fine tuning yesterday (though it wasn’t not worked on continuously in that time … Continue reading →

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News Wall monitors going to 1024×768

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Craig

In preparation for the installation of larger monitors in the News Wall, I switched the monitor resolution on the companion system in the IML to 1024×768 from 800×600. It’s interesting to watch the loop and see what sites work well … Continue reading →

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Making (working) vacation plans

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Craig

I am making plans to take a two-to-three-week vacation to England in June. One of the motivating factors to taking the vacation then is the opportunity to attend the @media 2006 conference in London on the 14th-17th. That and I … Continue reading →

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IML site goes UF template

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Craig

It took a little while longer than expected because I dislike formatting lists and there was more old code cleanup than I thought there would be, but the Interactive Media Lab Web site showed a new face to the world … Continue reading →

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Adding a one-column body class to a two-column UF CSS template

Posted on May 27, 2005 by Craig

After reading in And all that (CSS) Malarkey yesterday about using multiple class attributes on the body tag to create multiple page layouts within a style sheet, I thought I’d give it a try today as a good “Friday” task. … Continue reading →

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Adding UF template elements to a WordPress template

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Craig

Dissatisfied with my earlier attempt at making this blog look like it’s UF-templated and have it look and work “right” like a blog, I started over and like the new result a lot better. In the old template, I had … Continue reading →

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