[Adobe Muse] is pretty decent from my first rough sketch in the site – its code is a bit of a wreck, but not much worse than the kind of automatically-generated code from within WordPress or Tumblr, two of the most broadly-adopted tools designers are using.
WordPress produces basically-OK code by default if you just type away in its textarea – the way most people us it, and the way nobody should. You can’t easily insert headings unless you know about them already, a serious issue.
Tumblr is absolutely hopeless even as autistic savant David Karp swans around in classic cars.
The underlit office environment of FANTASTIC MAN and, in theory, Butt.
Why else do designers bang out minimalist film posters? Andrea Lange missed a reason: Because they work great in online thumbnails. Other graphic-design formats – including bedrocks of human civilization like body copy in books – work so badly online that you never see them, but a solid-coloured rectangle with a single figure and some type works just great.
Did you know onomatopoeias (onomatopœiæ) are not real words?
Written representations of noises often contain triple letters, such as brrr, shhh, and zzz, but they don’t really count as proper words.
Not merely upper-class or Oxbridge but actual upper-class Oxford lexicography gone drunk with power. Catch some zees, guys, willyez?
A word is anything that acts like a word (QED).
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.09.06 13:20. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/09/06/brrr-shhh-zzz/
Heterosexualist male embarks on a voyage of discovery: “Do you know how shady a thing has to be before it is written about evasively on the Internet‽”
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.09.05 12:29. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/09/05/wa/
Black veganist francophone former hockey enforcer Georges Laraque (emphasis added):
The best solution would be to have a committee of former players who have fought before for a living, some guys who struggle with the job, some guys who had success, some big and small guys. That way, guys with problems would be more comfortable to talk about their issues and we would be able to find solutions together.
In other words, in the same way big strong guys are not interested in advice women might give them, they are also not interested in advice from guys they think are midgets and shrimps. Where the hell are they coming from, big guys wonder?
Body type constitutes a peer group. Slender, well-put-together, sexy young women will tell you that. (Or if they won’t, at least fat girls will tell you that about them.) There are a few small indicators of this phenomenon among the Gays (e.g., musclebears who won’t talk to anybody who isn’t built exactly like them), but it just isn’t discussed among or about straight guys.
If you’re 6′4″/230 and a professional athlete and you’ve got a problem, yes, it matters what the guy trying to help you looks like and how big he is.
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.09.05 12:25. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/09/05/degooning/
CBC programming “chieftess” Kirstine Layfield Stewart Shaikh got hitched to her longtime boytoy Zaib Shaikh, Shineboy Govani superexclusively reveals.
Such a powerful woman exercising so much authority in the ruthless, go-go-go demimonde of Canadian broadcasting! But even she fell prey to Sharia law, getting hitched after “throwing a shawl on her wedding dress [so as not to reveal] any un-Islamic bare arms.”
Yet true to Corpse form, Stewart couldn’t even get that right, failing to cover her hair – the source of so much temptation for Muslim men like her diminutive husband. Then again, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim men tend to view the entire female body as a sex organ. I would have no idea what that’s like, but I have an excellent grasp of the results.
Now we have a plausible explanation why the terminally unfunny, fundamentally disingenuous exercise in Muslim appeasement known as Little Mosque on the Prairie is still on the air. In fact, it bumped The Ghost Whisperer out of its slot just this week.
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.09.02 14:27. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/09/02/layfield-stewart-shaikh/
Maybe I’ve been on to something all this time: Esteemed colleague Jason Santa Maria re-redesigned his site with typography functionally identical to mine.
Narrow column
No whitespace between paragraphs (an HTML abomination that impedes reading and induces you to skip to the next graf)
Indention of paragraph following other paragraph (but not otherwise)
Whitespace above but not below subheds (Jason adds a wee bit below)
Default block presentation of images (paradoxically, this means linear but not inline presentation of images)
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.09.02 14:03. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/09/02/jsmtype/