a good postmortem of EToys, which has shut down as of today: EToys Epitaph: ‘End of an Error’.
Earlier tonight I finished
the initial run at a new layout I’m doing for another project (you can see it soon, don’t worry). It’s pretty simple, really, but it does rely on positioning a minimum number of things exactly in the right spot. If they’re not there the whole idea breaks down. Anyhow – even though I did it in plain old tables, same as always, it still took a while to get it right – and it’s still not perfect in NS 4.7x. So it occurs to me that I could do the site entirely in CSS, perhaps – make the best of a learning opportunity. Lo and behold, Eric Costello has been following the work people are doing in this regard very closely! So I’m going to give it a try. The problem I foresee is that all of the layouts/designs I’ve seen are very airy and light. That’s great – but for this project it’s not exactly the vibe I’m after. So it’ll be a bit of a different kind of challenge, I think. Chunkier.
Ohmygod! My friend
Ed (who, appropriately enough, works as an ed) seems to think there’s a ball in the sky. Sheesh – what’s next?
Over at Onfocus
, Paul Bausch writes that he’s reading McLuhan‘s Understanding Media. I like to know that people are still reading McLuhan – although it’s easy to just ignore old-time theory like his, at another level his (and contemporaneous theorists’) work delineates the very conceptual borders of the world we’re living in now. Like it or not.
On that note
, yesterday I finally managed to overcome my phobia of the blank page (and my usual inability to execute the design ideas I have in my head due to sheer incompetence) and developed a solid mockup of montrealstories.org. I’m very happy with the direction things are going in now, and it looks like I can get the site launched in a few days or a week, depending on some pieces that have yet to come in.
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