Creative blocks suck. Here's something to take your mind off that ugly blank canvas and test your reaction time at the same time. The game involves clicking on the tranquilizer when a sheep tries to make a break for it. Play Dart The Sheep. I wonder who decided against shooting the sheep? Not that I am for hunting but it would seem a popular interative game choice. My result? I am a bobbing bobcat. … [Read more...]
I Didn’t Write This….
September 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
the real credit for the content of this page is Mandarin Design. I copied and pasted all the example code onto this page. Inline Pull Quotes You don't have to define the pullquotes in the style sheet. The code is short and doesn't take the many keystrokes. It's just another paragraph in CSS. ...it depends on what we are highlighting or lowlighting... ...this will look like some of the pullquotes and styles we seeina magazinelayout... … [Read more...]
How Great Design Can Save Democracy & The NYTimes
August 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
For the last 8 years, I have gathered my morning coffee and toast and read salon.com. Last year, Joan Walsh became the managing editor. More and more salon has become the "Joan Walsh Show" and the tone of salon.com, like MoveOn.org, no longer reflect my opinions or interests. During this process of losing interest, I found myself starting my day at NYTimes.com and falling in love with it a little more each day. … [Read more...]
Wall*E + Kleenex = Iron*E
August 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Greenpeace is not one of my favorite groups. Like PETA, some of their policies seem to contradict their philosophies. That's my opinion. Shoot me. BUT- sometimes we see eye-to-eye: money always trumps common sense. … [Read more...]
Brian Gardner’s Revolution Just Gets Better
July 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Serendipity must be in the air. … [Read more...]
Can DreamWeaver love WordPress?
June 26, 2008 By 1 Comment
Steve Carroll is trying to make me eat my words. This developer has managed to make Dreamweaver relevant to my world by creating an extension called ThemeDreamer. This MXP turns Dreamweaver into WYSIWYG Wordpress Editor. … [Read more...]
Standard Issue Non-Conforming Web
June 19, 2008 By 1 Comment
Taking risks is an artist's stock in trade. As our colleague, Wendy Arnold pointed out, making mistakes is part of the learning process. Many of those mistakes are really happy accidents, adaptations we should embrace because they work. … [Read more...]
Alexa.com Finally Embraces Mac Users
June 18, 2008 By 6 Comments
Digitalapplejuice.com is primarily geared toward Mac users. We are a resource to other artists using a MAC; this is our intent and not a slight to PC users. So it has been somewhat disheartening to know that our Alexa traffic rank has been fluctuating according to the number of PC users visiting our website. … [Read more...]
Left Brain – Right Brain
June 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Ever wonder which side of your brain is engaged when? … [Read more...]
Copulating Toys
June 4, 2008 By 1 Comment
Who would have thought stuffed animals could offend? … [Read more...]
Donate to Myanmar Relief
June 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
If you haven't already donated, or have the feeling that corruption, stupidity or greed might detour your donation to someone's pocket, give directly to the monks. … [Read more...]
Fav Iconic PS Plugin
June 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Favicons have always been the bane of my existence. 16x16 pixels is not a lot of real estate to define the essence of a website and i always forget which of my graphics programs will export a .ico file … [Read more...]
