Web and user experience designer, author, foodie.
Areas of Expertise:
- web design
- web standards
- usability
- courseware design
- consulting
- speaking
- training
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Jeff's blog posts are hosted at:http://siarto.com/
July 02 2009
HTML 5 Doctor Another great site for the latest news on HTML 5. You can also submit questions regarding HTML 5 and the authors will write a response or help find someone that can. read moreTips for Wordpress Template Developers
July 02 2009
Power tips for Wordpress template developers A great set of tips for people that spend their time on the development side of a Wordpress—especially those that use it as content management system. (via Ethan) read moreJuly 01 2009
PragPub A new PDF magazine from the fine folks at The Pragmatic Programmers. This month: Layoffs, Clojure and Pragmatic Publishing. read moreJuly 01 2009
Zeldman on minimalism Although it is never popular, never the dominant trend, rarely wins design awards, and almost never earns acclaim from designers, design stripped down to its essentials is always a good idea, and especially on the web, where every byte counts. read moreEveryBlock Releases Site Source Code
July 01 2009
EveryBlock goes open source Great news from a local Chicago startup. EveryBlock is an amazing localized, map-based news site from the folks that brought you Django. Check them out. read moreJune 30 2009
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 The latest version of everyone’s favorite browser is out with a bunch of new features including some speed improvements. It all looks good except I’m sick of seeing these stupid tables comparing browsers on metrics that don’t matter. Damn, you mean Safari doesn’t give me thousands of… read moreJune 29 2009
Last week Ryan and I launched Bypass Network—an online resource for medical students looking for job shadowing opportunities. The site was the brainchild of Emily Eubanks, a medical student and close friend of ours from college. She wanted an easy way to find doctors in her area that she could… read moreJune 24 2009
WaSP web standards curriculum Similar to the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, InterAct is an open set of modules, courses and assignments that act as a framework for teaching web standards and web design best practices. I wish projects like this existed five years ago. read moreJune 23 2009
Jakob Nielsen on password masking Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. In theory, I agree—but there are plenty of instances where having a… read moreJune 17 2009
Fever The long-awaited feed reader from Shaun Inman. Fever runs on your server using PHP and MySQL and the design looks absolutely stunning. It’s $30 but for those that use (and pay for) Mint—Shaun’s web stats program—you know it will be worth every penny. read moreJune 16 2009
Tweet what you eat with nom.ms Fellow foodies rejoice! Friend and fellow Jelly employee David Kadavy just launched a new service that allows you to post pictures of your food to Twitter. Om nom nom. read moreJune 16 2009
Opera Unite Think web browser meets web service meets personal API. Unite is a cool browser-like application that allows you share data and services from your computer without the need for third-party technology. It also boasts an HTML 5 templating engine, adding yet another browser company putting their eggs in that… read moreJune 15 2009
HTML 5 is still in its infancy and support is limited to a handful of features on a few modern browsers. Recently, Google has said it plans to invest heavily in the new markup specification with the hopes of it becoming the new standard. There is a lot to get… read moreSite Realignments and New Work
June 11 2009
It’s been a busy few months and I’ve finally made it back to doing some work on my own site. I’ve made some small adjustments to the layout—removing the third column sidebar and replacing it on the left with a smaller column for dates. The whole layout was realigned to… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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