http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog Exercise Your Brain! Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:50:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes my friends.... this blog is alive and well, and I will be giving it a fresh new redesign soon! I am still using this blog primarily as a place to practice my Web programming and design skills, skills for which I get paid quite nicely in my real life, ... http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2009/09/23/big-plans/ Enjoy some wonderful thumbnail versions of the works of my favorite abstract expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2007/11/03/kandinski/ A good article on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) at A List Apart. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2006/03/15/ajax-just-another-buzzword/ Another classic by the ever-brilliant Tom Tomorrow. The wit is amazing, the subject matter is topical, and the drawings of the characters are hilarious (check out the subtle changes in the facial expressions.) Also, check out the large archive of previous strips, quite a treasure trove of political satire. This ... http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2006/02/07/tom-tomorrow/ If you happen to be interested in current news about organized crime (a strange fascination of mine) then one of the best Websites to check out is author and columnist Jerry Capeci's Gang Land. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2006/01/20/made-men/ A nice bookmark for XHTML and CSS references is HTML Dog. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2006/01/13/html-dog/ Hopefully, school boards everywhere will offer this to their students as an alternative to scientific fact. After all, those sinful scientific facts are just so yucky! I really think that there might be something to this! All praise the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2006/01/02/intelligent-alternative/ One of my favorite Websites (as far as content anyway, not necessarily design or structure) has always been nationalgeographic.com. Here is an interesting article replete with nicely done graphics and audio explaining the steamy (literally) underside of New York City. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2005/12/27/beneath-new-york-city/ I know that I post links to a lot of "A List Apart" articles, but hey... why not? It's one of my favorite Websites, it's beautifully designed, and the articles are great. Here is another article on designing Websites free from the constraints of the traditional grid oriented approach. http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2005/12/20/thinking-outside-the-grid/ The latest fantastic article from one of my favorite Websites,"A List Apart": Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist http://www.jeffsdigital.com/blog/2005/12/20/sensible-form-design/