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September 30, 2002
The site now has a CSS Signature ofwww-saila-com. This allows you to alter the appearance of saila.com in your user-defined style sheets.
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Briefly Noted as Blogmarks
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How to apply for a design position
Brutally honest explanation of how the hiring process for designers is often like
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How a link spreads
Visualizing how various Twitter accounts infect others with a link over time
Topic: Social Media
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USA Today big change
Large-scale reorg focuses on digital, as opposed to printed, mobile news distribution
Topics: Newspapers, Mobile
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IE9's new look
The next version of Internet Explorer may launch on September 15th with a minimal interface
Topics: Browsers, User Interface
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Urbanized
Gary Hustwit's new film builds on Helvetica and Objectified to look at the design of cities
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Also of Interest
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August 26, 2005
Hid the subscribe box and showed the search box in…
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February 6, 2004
Removed the small ads and hit counter found under the…
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February 26, 2004
Updated the Creative Commons information to include rel="license" and the…
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September 30, 2003
I’ve added three new sites to my blogroll: Lars Holst’s,…
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August 8, 2003
Some pages are carrying ads from Google AdSense, as part…
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Site News
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This Just In
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A picture’s worth
There’s an itch that the Internet and its all-seeing search engines hasn’t yet scratched: visual search. Despite all the improvements to the UI (see Bing and Google’s recent efforts) and technology (including the amazing TinEye), it remains stubbornly difficult to find digital copies of the images one see’s so clearly in the mind’s eye. For example, I have this clear memory of a scene in Return of the Jedi — an X-wing fighter crashing and exploding into the shields of the Death Star in the movie’s final battle. Subsequent viewings, however, never showed that particular scene. Fruitless Internet searches years later left me unsure whether it was the search engines, or my memory, failing. (Upon the re-release of the “original” edition, it was a false memory explaining what could have happened.)A few days ago, a similar situation resurfaced, despite the many years of search technology improvement. In an episode of Mad Men, two characters are brainstorming an ad for Samonsite luggage. A mouse makes a random appearance, and an elephant is constantly mentioned in conversation. Instantly, I recognized the reference to a classic suitcase ad showing an elephant balancing on a suitcase after being scared by a mouse.The visual, along with the design of the ad, was clearly discernable in my mind. Last night, I decided to look for it online. Again, nothing. Instead, all I found were references to other people trying to find the ad. They all recalled the same images I did, and none had managed to find a copy of the ad either. A massive ad campaign of decades passed had, for all intents of purposes, morphed into a figment of our collective consciousness.There is something poetic in the thought that these iconic images become, in essence, legendary in a time when almost everything else is discoverable. But really I still would like to see that ad again
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New designs on news
The new msnbc.com design represents a whole new way for editors to report the news online
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Saila CSS layouts, revisited
An update to the tableless CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout that uses HTML 5 and CSS 3 selectors, and works in Internet Explorer 7 and up; Gecko-based browsers like Firefox; Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome; as well as the Opera browser.
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Safari fine
The latest upgrade to Apple's Web browser brings a promising set of new features.
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The summer of the city
Toronto reveals its true face in a trio of movies released in 2010