checkin sites

can anyone remind me how we check our sites through the web to make sure everything is in order?

flash sweetness...

i came across this guy's flash portfolio today.  it's pretty amusing...

http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/flash_design.html

have fun!  i wish i was good at flash.

p.s. for all the bubble wrap popping fans out there, try "therapy"

Font Management

Does anybody know of a good font management system? Is anyone else old enough to remember "Suitcase?" I've got oodles of fonts, and I wish that instead of looking through the whole list I could just looks at the "sans-serifs" or "Moderns" or whatever.

Oh the irony

Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that a camp made to be accessible to persons with disabilities left out the alternative text information for pictures on their Web site?

I wanted to use the same ones they had and when I went to copy it found that it did not exist.

Evolving Web sites

This article comes from the UK newspaper site www.Telegraph.co.uk. I'm sure there must be other articles about this too since the sources are guys from the U.S.--there's even a UW professor cited.

Anyway. The article, Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding,' reports that for a while, Web pages have been changing or evolving to keep them up-to-date with user preferences.

What scientists have now created, is software that, once a site is set up, treats the features of the page like genes. So every time the page gets refreshed, the software randomly changes or mutates the page. Thought that was kind of cool.

Illustrator question

Does anybody know how to put a border around a photo in Illustrator without having to draw a separate box around the photo?

Interesting design column

Ed Henninger writes a column addressing design issues and giving tips to work around them. Some of his insight is pretty interesting. I was reading through it today and found myself guilty of some of the aspects he brings up such as Cuzicans.

http://www.henningerconsulting.com/columns.html