Monthly Archives: March 2012

A Couple Thoughts on Trolls

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Internet trolls lately. These are people that often anonymously leave discouraging or rude comments.

I recently wrote a post for CSS-Tricks; which is an important and popular site for people that write CSS. You could say this site has a niche audience, and maybe this makes its (enormous) audience a tight-knit community. As a result, all of the comments were positive, and friendly – even when the reader didn’t entirely agree with something about my crazy idea.

Conversely, previous things I’ve written have been for sites with a broader audience. The comments haven’t always been as friendly. Continue reading →

Making Time in a Chaotic World

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Making Time in a Chaotic World

Here’s a post I wrote for the Web Copy Plus blog. I feel like this is a very important post. Not too many months ago I found myself constantly adding to a To Do list that I was never getting time to knock things off of. I needed to make some life changes to give myself time. This is the post on how I did that.

http://blog.webcopyplus.com/2012/03/19/making-time-in-a-chaotic-world/

Parallax & Scrolling Effects – Steady as she goes [updated]

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I can still remember the day I first saw the parallax scrolling effect on Nike Better World. Wow! A fairly straight-forward jQuery effect created a most striking visual effect. Since then I have seen a couple dozen other parallax scrolling sites, but often failing to reach that level. While cool effects will always have a wave of spin-offs, I think parallax is one we need to be careful with. Continue reading →

LukeW Mobile First talk in Toronto

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Last week Thrillworks sent a handful of us to hear a day long presentation by Luke Wroblewski (author of A Book Apart’s Mobile First); the man who comes first to mind for a lot of people when it comes to mobile websites.

I had been expecting the talk to be a lot more technical, but instead it leaned more heavily on the strategy and the thinking behind making lean and amazing mobile experiences (which is good, since technical things are easier to Google and digest online). Continue reading →