It’s hot right now in Columbia, South Carolina. The recorded high this week was 100° and it’s only June! For web designers and developers though, something refreshing is on the way. I’m not talking about a rafting trip down the Saluda – though that does sound refreshing – I’m referring…
Update: We ended up going with a slight variation of scheme #4 below. You can see the finished color along with all the before & after pictures of our first home in my 2011 post, Here We Go Again. Ames and I have been talking about painting our house for…
This is one of those seemingly simple things that I wanted to do for one of our client sites that turned into a slight obsession because it seems like an obvious and increasingly necessary feature. I’d like to see night-mode as an option for online mapping. I know that customized…
I like to complain about browser inconsistency and rendering bugs as much as every other front-end developer, but it’s fairly common that the issues I’m experiencing are PEBKAC rather than IE induced. Now I know these won’t apply to most of you perfect coders out there, but I’m betting that…
Ames and I are both fairly easygoing and don’t turn our noses up to many things. If there is one thing we are persnickety about though, it’s Orange Juice. You know the stuff they serve at the continental breakfast buffets at most hotels? Horrible. Almost every single OJ available the…
As many of you already know, I fell down some stairs and broke 2 bones in my hand a couple days before before SXSW. Well, now it’s the 21st of April and I just got the cast off. That’s a long time. I thought I’d break it down for you…
The image above is the third in a series of collages from a childhood sketchbook. A few weeks ago, Ames and I drove down to Orlando to see one of my best friends from college get married. While I was in town, I managed to find time one morning to…
As with most trades, there are some tricks about web design that you only learn through experience. Building complex layouts that avoid browser-specific hacks is certainly one of those tricks. Yes, there are some hard and fast rules you can teach new designers – like how IE version 6 and…
Update 2/11/09: I redesigned the site, leaving the old 1999 April Fools theme behind. You can still view this post as it was intended though by going to http://www.jasongraphix.com/ugly. Clicking this link will redirect you to the archived version of my website and set the theme to 1999. Enjoy! Update…
I couldn’t help but grab the arms of my office chair to keep from falling over this afternoon as I checked out Bryan Veloso’s latest redesign of avalonstar. The layered textures, unorthodox structure and analogous color scheme really set it apart from anything else out there. In the words of…