Following Gabe‘s suggestion for the type…
And my personal favorite so far…
See the BarCampMadison Logo page for more…
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BarCampMadison: Archive Your Life
For BarCampMadison, I’ve convinced Matthew Pickard to join me in leading a session titled Archive Your Life.
Last year Mark Pilgrim asked the question: "How do you back up 100 GB of data per year for 50 years? Or even 10 years?"
Does anyone have an answer yet? How can we even test possible solutions?
Matt and I have been archiving things. Things we created, and others have created. We plan to talk about what we’ve done, and what we want to do. Not just for us, but for the future. We believe you can write your own history. If you don’t who will?
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BarCampMadison: Logo Ideas
I’ve been toying with some logo ideas for BarCampMadison. I wanted to incorporate the dome of the capitol building with the BarCamp flame. Here are the results so far.
There are more ideas on the BarCampMadison wiki’s Logo page. I’m still not happy with this. I wanted to use a simple illustration of the dome, but I don’t have one, and haven’t created one yet.
Hey, it’s a work in progress… Got any better ideas?
(If you haven’t signed up for BarCampMadison yet, do so now… and if you can help sponsor, or know any organizations that can help sponsor, get in touch with me.
(Updated: Here is the red/white one people are mentioning…)
I spent some time evaluating the web sites of some Milwaukee design firms, and I’ve gotta say, I was sadly disappointed. I do not want to name names, because I’m going to discuss actual trends rather than specific issues. (Plus, I know people at many of these companies, and to be fair, I should disclose that I do work for at least two design firms in the area.)
Also, if you have not read my posts on Business Web Site tips, you may want to see them now: #253, #267, #271, #285, #301. Many of them apply…
The overall trends I saw were the following:
- Inability to print pages/content
- Inability to resize or select text
- Inability to open multiple windows/tabs due to navigation using Flash
- Music playing on page load (with no way to stop it)
- Text as an image, or within Flash, which does not get indexed by search engines
Overall, many of the problems of poor usability were caused by Flash. (I know, I have a history of being somewhat anti-Flash, but so often Flash is anti-usability, so it all works out.) Many of the sites I evaluated had just one or two results in Google, which is probably not ideal for companies that want potential clients to find them.
To be fair, I know many design firms end up not overhauling their sites for a long time because they are too busy doing client work, but honestly, most of them looked like graphic or visual designers with no background in usability designed them.
Milwaukee design firms, it may be time for a reboot…
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Windows Hurts Me…
When I have to use a Windows machine for long periods of time, it hurts my fingers.
Why? Look at your keyboard. Put your left thumb on the Ctrl key, and your left index finger on the W key, now on the C key, and then on the V key. Now try it again, but put your thumb on the Alt key (or Command key, for use Mac users.)
Which is more natural? putting my thumb on the Command key on my Mac feels natural. I am not stretching and crossing my fingers over to hit the target keys. Using Windows, my thumb has to go way to the left, underneath my index finger.
Is it just me, or does the same thing happen to you?