Skinning MySpace

Welcome to nested tables hell If you have tried to skin your MySpace profile before, you have probably failed – and if not, I’m probably not going to tell you anything you don’t already know. Alternatively, if you don’t know what MySpace is: go away, don’t read this – it’s not for you. What I … Read more

Who knew the Dark Side was so fun?

This is a great site. It’s a promo site for M&Ms Dark – and it’s super-cool… In a spooky way…. It’s a pretty original idea. Take a painting of suggestive images that represent horror movies, and makes folks guess which movie it is for. It’s pretty damned immersive, and pretty frickin’ hard. There are 50 … Read more

.crit ready for submissions

I finally have my critique site up, and ready for submissions. .crit is well on its way out of beta. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch – but it’s up and running. For a bit of background on what the site is and what it’s all about, .crit is a web site critique site for folks … Read more

How not to design a website

This is a one-step tutorial. adambartos.com This website is by far, hands down, the worst site I have seen in months for a photographer – or anyone else for that matter. Nothing shows on the home page except a Grey Poupon Yellow screen with some text, once you click on a link you have to … Read more

Web Standards – the Right way & the Easy way

This is still the catch phrase of the year – Web Standards. Everyone is talking about it, lots of folks are developing to this ideology – and yet, why is it so hard to do? You can’t have an article, blog post or discussion about Standards or Tableless Design without some Standardista or Web Relic … Read more

SharePoint Portal and my left arm

I’ve been working quite extensively over the last several months with Microsoft SharePoint Portal and services, and let me tell you how much fun I am having…. It’s really pretty crazy. It’s a phenomenal product, has features out the wazzoo, capable of leaping tall racks in a single query – but why in the hell … Read more

Ghost Rider Wallpaper

I’m at it again. I love making new wallpapers for my machine. It’s so much more gratifying than just downloading a new one – and usually – it turns out far better. So I’m sittin here waiting for Ghost Rider to be released. Anticipating it. I love Ghost Rider, he’s almost as messed up as … Read more

Now I’m all minty fresh with Vanilla

Vanilla is a new discussion board by Lussomo that’s ajaxified and cool. It’s a bit different than your standard forum app, and quite honestly it seems very promising. With easily applied add-ons, themes, and styles – it could be pretty powerful coming up here in the near future if it really takes off and some … Read more

Now you can shave those pesky….

Every now and again, something comes along that is funny as hell, clever, and well… spot on. The Philips Body Groom is a pretty slick little shaver, probably better than my current beard trimmer too – but if you look at their site; the beard, is not the fuzz they are talkin about turning into … Read more

It’s all in the details

Code name Jason It cracks me up, computer geeks… err… programmers have a wierd sense of humor and the folks at Adobe aren’t any different. Today I was privvy to a glimpse of Illustrator CS3, or code name Jason. It even came complete with a set of Harlequin masks styled after the jason hockey masks … Read more

Toyota does the FJ Cruiser – Flash style

Very seldom have I ever seen a company put as much thought, design and attention to detail into an Internet application as Toyota has invested into their FJ Cruiser configuration app. It is indeed a thing of beauty. Quite honestly, just like the vehicle itself.

Time to Flake out on the intarweb

Pageflakes is an AJAX based home page site that allows drag and drop on the fly customization of what content you want to have smack you in the noggin every time you open you favorite web browser (Firefox).

Wufoo – not an ancient Chinese fighting style…

This is really cool. I love new web apps. I’m not exactly sure where wufoo comes from.. scratch that – I have no idea where wufoo comes from – but it one of the coolest things I have seen around in a bit. I have kicked this idea around for a while now. No really, … Read more

Optimus Keyboard February 1st!

OMG! The keyboard is coming! The keyboard is coming! I don’t know what I am going to have to sell in order to buy this keyboard, but rest assured I will be having mine! I originally posted this a while ago, but I have found the update to the actual release date now _ and … Read more

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