So, this video from the Jay Leno show is making the rounds: 16 MB Windows Media file or 4.4 MB Real Video. One of my husband’s colleagues sent it to him, thinking it was hilarious. I watched it, and I am caught between being horrified and not really caring about it. On one hand, it typifies all the stereotypes that the University is trying to overcome. Years worth of recruiting effort could be ruined by that video. And most of it is just not true. It is not legal to smoke pot here, and I hardly ever see anyone smoking...… →

Our latest effort at HSU went live a week or so ago: First Year Connections. This project was a challenge, in that it highlights 5 separate programs that are administered by 5 different groups on campus. Those of you that work at Universities probably are rolling your eyes in sympathy right now, thinking that this is the formula for a nightmare of a site. And it has been in the past, but this time we were actually able to pull off a really great campaign that includes both printed materials and a web site. I thought I’d document our process...… →

One of the projects I have been working long and hard on launched today: Introducing Bite Size Standards. The braindchild of John Oxton, Bite Size Standards aims to offer concise web development tutorials, tips and tricks. I was in charge of the Textpattern inplementation, and had the pleasure of working with an awesome international team, including Prabhath Sirisena, James Akaxaka, Ann McMeekin, and Andrew Disley. It was a great experience to work with such a diverse and talented team. Many a debate was had along the way (Ann and James are master debaters, hee hee), and that was half the...… →

Prabhath hit me with a meme. One Year Ago April 06, 2005 I wrote this, which is still one of my favorite posts ever. I was still riding high from my first trip to SXSW and working on redesigning my site. The fruit of that effort is what you see now. I had been the Web Manager at HSU for about a year, and was just starting to get things happening. I had recently hired Charles, which was the best decision ever. Five Years Ago This one is amazing to me. Five years ago we were living in Seattle, Washington...… →

I just implemented a kick ass plugin that allows me to tag my articles and create on of those trendy tag clouds. All joking aside, I have come to like tags much better than categories for organizing my thoughts. Plus I always kind of hated the way the category listing looked— the tag cloud looks much better over there on the home page. The danger becomes generating just too many tags for my own good, but we’ll see how it goes. There may be some style/layout glitches while I fool around with the tags, so please be patient. … →

I thought I’d document the process that I have been using lately on my university web designs, since after about 2.5 years of refining I have come up with one that actually seems to work well for me and my clients. This is shaping up to be another series; in this part I’ll talk about starting at the beginning. …