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Links for August 2004

Pocket-Sized Design 31 Aug 2004
Tips for ensuring content displays well on small-screen devices, especially in Opera.
Apple.com throughout the ages 30 Aug 2004
Alex takes a short trip back through Apple home pages with the WayBack machine. (via Anil)
BBEdit 8.0 30 Aug 2004
BareBones just released the latest version of BBEdit, with all kinds of new features — including better window management and even more flexibility.
Seagulls 29 Aug 2004
Dunstan captures a great shot, almost doesn’t look real.
iTunes + iPod Video 27 Aug 2004
Awesome use of imagery and type. Fun posters halfway through. (via AJ)
Chevrolet redesigns 25 Aug 2004
Using those shiny, high-power, ultra-efficient tools we’ve grown to love: standards. (via WaSP)
Stylegala 25 Aug 2004
“The finest CSS and Web Standards resource” — another nice gallery-presented collection of standards-based designs, with comments from the site proprietor and visitors.
How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions 24 Aug 2004
Past accounts of social and cultural blunders that offended customers and caused Microsoft’s software to be banned in at least two countries.
Happy 5, Blogger 24 Aug 2004
“We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It’s called Blogger. It’s an automated weblog publishing tool.”
Graphic Design Olympics 24 Aug 2004
Michael Bierut summarizes issues in logo and pictogram design for the Olympics, and offers up his own recommendations for gold, silver, and bronze medals for graphic design triumphs of past Olympics.
You enjoy Hivelogic 22 Aug 2004
Dan redesigns Hivelogic, and switches to writing in the first person.
A Matter of Styles 11 Aug 2004
Ethan writes a well-timed article on how to effectively deal with CSS in team situations. “The Web is slowly, surely shifting toward treating CSS as the de facto method for creating our pages’ presentation layer, and we’ll eventually have to work in less independent environments in order to support the demand for CSS development.”
Jim Ramsey on the SF Examiner redesign 10 Aug 2004
I’m glad Meryl got a chance to hook up with Jim and interview him for the WaSP. His work deserves the attention.
Reading Online Text 10 Aug 2004
A comparison of four white space layouts, with interesting results. (via Kottke)
CSSEdit 10 Aug 2004
Interesting app from MacRabbit for CSS editing, extraction, and previewing. Nice site design with some cool CSS tricks. (via Veen)
PGA Championship 2004 9 Aug 2004
Todd’s new PGA Championship site for 2004 is up and running. Looks as beautiful as last year’s site.
The Case Against Bush 9 Aug 2004
I normally don’t like linking to political stuff, because I despise politics in general. But this article by Ron Reagan needs to be read by those who remain blind to the lies of our country’s current administration.
First look at MSN blogs 9 Aug 2004
Phil Ringnalda rips into the new MSN blogs and sign up process, and ends up encapsulating the need for clean HTML and XML.
A Bigger CSS Mosaic 8 Aug 2004
Michael Simmons riffs on my original CSS Mosaic, producing a version containing 350 of the 356 sites in the CSS Vault.
55-mile Wifi 5 Aug 2004
Two teens from Ohio set a record for an unamplified wifi connection over ground at DefCon: 55.1 miles. Entire wifi’d cities won’t be far off.
SF Examiner redesigns 2 Aug 2004
Shows it’s possible to construct a simple, almost-blog-like, CSS-based, 4-column news site layout. And do it all without a table in sight. Well done.
Futura - the perfect geometric typeface? 2 Aug 2004
“If your VW had egg-shaped wheels, wouldn’t you complain? Or excuse it as an expression of the designer’s creativity?”
Relevance of DOCTYPEs 2 Aug 2004
“Is the DOCTYPE debate one of what is ideal versus what is real? Perhaps, but practicality has to rule the day, at least during this very difficult, transitional time where people desperately want to reap the benefits of compliant design.”