Posts from September, 2008
Brilliant, amazing, the best yet. Mark did a stellar job on the TUAW redesign. My two designers keep one-upping each other in brilliance ever since they were hired on a little over a year ago. It’s full speed ahead. Can’t wait to keep informing you of our upcoming re-launches.
More info on the redesign and a ton of feedback already at the redesign post on TUAW.
Oh wow, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time! Built in syncing of iCal and gCal. It’s been possible to do it third party apps but I’ve always been a little suspicious of their efficacy (I have no data, only superstition there).
Christian Warren posted about it on TUAW. Ahhh TUAW, not only do I like working on you, I like reading you.
Welcome to mattheerema.com version 5 (an arbitrary version declaration. I have long since lost track of design iterations, so I decided on 5.). I’m calling it “still waters”.
Last month I posted about a design I had lingering around that I wanted to make into a real live site someday. A few weeks later, I canceled my WoW account. A few days later, I had the site prototyped and Wordpress theme built. I’ve been waiting for a chance to write some permanent page content and an introductory post ever since.
Along with the redesign comes some restructuring of the content and theme. I have changed the way the archives work in hopes of longer-term intelligibility and I will likely be broadening the topics covered here in from simply Web design related matters, though that will continue to comprise the bulk of the posts for the time being. I am conceiving of this site as more a personality site now, combining my various “worlds”, music, religion, spirituality, theology, social networking, design, the Web (in general) and anything else that strikes my fancy or is important. I promise it won’t be too great a diversion from the current theme (for now).
As with everything I’ve ever done on this site and my other personal sites, this will likely remain under construction for a long time, so apologies for the mess. This new design will give me greater freedom to expand and evolve in a coherent fashion.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy!
Congratulations to all my friends over at Crowd Fusion on the launch of Obsessable. The site is gorgeous (and it has great content already).
Covering the wide world of personal technology, Obsessable is up against some large competition, but I think the site has all the right ingredients for success: great content, great writers, a good tech crew, a great platform, beautiful design and IA. Now all you need is a gianormous marketing engine.
Look out CNET!!!
Congratulations Brian, Judith, Craig, Steve, Kyle, Barb, Evan, Randall, and everyone I forgot and or don’t know!!
Leona Tomlinson rounds up a great list of considerations when building a Web site to help ensure that it is actually accessible, rather than systematically meeting a list of guidelines.
…we must look further than the guidelines if we are to create websites which are accessible to users with disabilities and the assistive technologies they rely on.
Matt is currently Lead Designer (and front-end developer) for Weblogs Inc (AOL), Husband, Father, Musician, sometimes contributer at Godbit.com, and Jesus' friend.
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