Assume that no one, except for about 5 women that you know will cut you some slack, reads your site. Launch a redesign on Sunday afternoon before it’s completely ready, just to get it up there and off your plate. Happen to launch about the same time as the redesign of a famous web zine that uses Georgia much better than you do, and made sure they didn’t launch before they were ready. …

Grab a cup and have a drink— this is version 2.0. If things look wacky, try clicking reload. If they still look wacky and you’re using Firefox, you may have to choose View > Page style > Okapi. I’m not sure why this stylesheet isn’t loading by default for me in Firefox— I’m trying to figure that out. Update: this is fixed. If they still look wacky and you’re using Internet Explorer, sorry about that. That is tomorrow’s project. I will fix things for you, I promise. This version is all about information architecture—hopefully we’ll all be able to find...… →

I got an email from Eric yesterday asking if I would share how I created the A-Z index on the Humboldt State University site with Textpattern. His email was timely, because with the new TXP 4.0 release, I was planning on re-examining how I did the A-Z index (which was done in one of the gamma releases) to see if it could be cleaned up a bit. I thought I’d publish this here as well, in case anyone else is interested. …

I was looking through my server logs yesterday (Yes, I realize I just publicly admitted this… I officially need to get over myself) and I saw a reference from the del.icio.us links of someone named Joe Clark. OK, I said to myself, there are probably hundreds of Joe Clarks online, this can’t possibly be the same guy I was afraid to talk to at SXSW. …

Why is it that lately my vacations have been more about transportation than anything else? I won’t go into detail about the pathetic flight situation on both ends of our trip. It should suffice to say that on the way there, we ended up being given $2000 worth of plane ticket vouchers on United, and on the way back we were given two free round-trip tickets on US Air. All this was basically for not being total assholes to the airport staff when we were told about the ridiculousness of the flight situation. My advice— be nice to people. You...… →

Yes, I’m on the road again— not taking the country roads this time, but leaving on a jet plane to go fill up my senses with the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah river. I’ll probably be staying on grandma’s feather bed and when the sun’s comin’ up there’ll be cakes on the griddle. How may John Denver references can you fit into one paragraph? …