Design

I laughed most at the end; "The Emotionator"

Do your marketing messages lack feeling..
Let's watch as the emotionator goes to work on this lifeless coldhearted marketing advert.
You can even bring that same love to your one's and zeros. The digital loveboat has just set sail, who says technology has to be cold?

Watch it, weep.
MAKE MY LOGO BIGGER

I think I may actually be the fluorescenator to Jen's tasteful colour palettes.

Frankly I am a bit worried about this because I found this tutorial that I am assuming is a satire, but maybe it isn't???

It doesn't matter because in any case it's hilarious.

Web 2.0 Design... in a nutshell by Roman Mittermayr.

Poor Roman I feel like a meanie laughing at his tutorial - but it's not him in particular it's the whole "welschmertz" of 2.0design, which he's actually managed to capture in a quite impressive little nutshell. For example;

First of all, check out these sites for a basic overview. Try to identify the major similarities between the various concepts. All of them seem to origin from the very same developer. Even though there’s no guideline (except this one here, wooho!) on that kind of design – it seems that the Bay Area is handing around some secret guide for that particular design scheme.

Yeah - well it does, and isn't that a bit weird kids... But let's truck on.

Ok, this sort of break-boring-html-rules trend seems to have got quite a must-have nowadays. Frankly, I also prefer rounded shapes over tight rectangles. Same with women, I guess. Nevertheless, some 2.0Culture providers do still stick to the rectangle design schemes. No problem at all, have a look at writeboard.com – their editor is a rectangled interface. Nice as well. To try a “psychological� approach to this difference, I might point out these facts:

Rounded shapes look more inventive, younger, flexible and experimental

I feel both popular and again, a little disingenious because I went on vacation and promptly forgot all about my little post.

Check it out though, I got all the lads at design talking about whether content or aesthetics is at the root of good design for the web.

CSS layouts and Drupal

While i am gossiping about Drupal threads...Removal of gender-specific pronouns from core

I had a rabbi once named Sharon who started a big movement to refer to all the gendered segments of our prayers using neutral or exclusive (...God of our fathers and mothers) terms. She got a holy shitstorm for trying that as well.