Last Ten Blog Entries

  • Archived - February 11, 2009
    Welcome to Version 5 of Jasongraphix! I’ve since redesigned, but I wanted to keep the old version of the website up for old times’ sake. Feel free to have a look around, but when you’re done, be sure to c’mon over to the current version....
  • Guest Lecture - February 02, 2009
    I really, really enjoyed seeing Web design education take the spotlight in Issue No. 276 of A List Apart. It’s a topic that I feel strongly about and one that doesn’t get nearly enough attention from those of us working in the industry. While I’ve had the pleasure of meeting the authors of both articles, I was particularly moved by...
  • The Web Designers Idea Book (Review) - January 19, 2009
    As a web design author, I often get asked what books I recommend. This of course depends on who is asking and what they want to learn, but one book I often pass along is Curt Cloninger’s original* Fresh Styles for Web Designers from 2001. The specific design examples are quite outdated now, but to me, that book was a...
  • Anchor Link Toggle - January 14, 2009
    I enjoy enhancing webpages with Javascript as much as anyone, but there is a lot to be said for making things function just as well with plain ole’ HTML. Recently, I was marking up a design that included a box on the homepage that toggled between 2 states. I could have made the non-javascript fallback simply link to a modified...
  • Burninating my Feed - December 10, 2008
    Just a quick post to let you all know I’ve moved my RSS feed to Feedburner. Please take a moment to swap out the URL in your reader with http://feeds.feedburner.com/jasongraphix If you don’t do this, you will always get to see this lovely post as my latest. That is, until the old feed URLs don’t exist anymore. Why wouldn’t they...
  • No-Shave 2008 - November 11, 2008
    For those of you who have asked: Yes! I’m observing No-Shave November again this year. This is only the 2nd consecutive November that I’ve gone without shaving, but the tradition started back in college. I know I had a “no-shave” beard when I proposed to my wife on Thanksgiving of 2001 and that was neither the first nor that last...
  • Obama Facts Bookmarklet - November 07, 2008
    I'm a big fan of President-Elect Barack Obama. I'm also a big fan of Chuck Norris. So Keith Robinson's idea of going to chucknorrisfacts.com and replacing "Chuck Norris" with "Obama", nearly made me fall off my chair laughing. So... I decided a bookmarklet was in order: Directions: Click & drag the bold "Obama Facts" link below to your bookmarks...
  • Link Background Image - November 05, 2008
    Over a year ago I posted about the lack of a View Background Image option in Firefox when right-clicking on links. As a web designer, I use that context menu item on a regular basis, so for it to not be there for links seemed like a glaring omission. To my surprise, a very kind volunteer came to the rescue...
  • River of News - November 03, 2008
    Last week’s Refresh Columbia meetup was a lot of fun. We had nearly 30 people show up to hear 5 exciting lightning talks. I gave a presentation about how to stay connected to the web design community without drowning. Of course I added the disclaimer that I haven’t REALLY figured out that latter part. For those interested, here’s my slide...
  • So Full of Win - October 07, 2008
    While I’d never heard this phrase before last weekend, Full of Win summarizes perfectly how I feel about this year’s Webmaster Jam Session. The schedule was packed with awesome talks by industry leaders I personally look up to - literally in the case of Todd Dominey & Garrett Dimon. There were so many (web) rock stars at the conference like...

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