Author Archive
Atlantic Tomcod
These are things that make me wonder.
Starts and spurts
Looking back over my blog in search of answers to the conundrum of what to do with this site, I can’t help but notice the posts are few and far between. I wonder if that causes people who come here and read to think that I lose interest in being a web designer? In reality, [...]
Forsooth is Not Archaic
Forsooth is not archaic. I thought it would be. I haven’t read it anywhere for a long time and it’s been even longer since I heard anybody say it. I looked it up the other day because someone on ?? (some answer site) was looking for examples of archaic words. It is not categorized by [...]
Wannabee – How can I put text here?
Decided that I’m going to content myself with pretty much a stock template for my new site redesign. Of course, I want to add a little bit of text to explain something, like so: Seems like that would be easy enough right? Wouldn’t you think maybe a little <div> somewhere? Probably, but that real estate [...]
It’s No Matter
In a convoluted way, I just came across another designer’s site that is a bit like this one. One of those obvious work in progress sites that make you wonder. This guy had made an interesting comment on an article Guy Kawasaki tweeted. The comment was a bit snobby in a designer sort of way [...]
Things that make you go hmmmm
“After 10-15 years, the foxes he bred showed affection to their keepers, even licking them. They barked, had floppy ears and wagged their tails. They also developed spotted coats – a surprising development that was connected with a decrease in their levels of adrenaline, which shares a biochemical pathway with melanin and controls pigment production.” [...]
What I never told my children
“Do as I say, don’t do as I do,” was never a phrase my kids heard around the house though I grew up with it. I had the opinion that a parent should lead by example and sometimes I even tried to set a good one. Now, here I am telling clients to keep their [...]

