My favorite web design that I have been involved in is the homepage of LDS Singles Network. The site is owned by my brother and I, and the process that has lead to the current design has often gone something like this:

My brother gets dissatisfied with the existing design

He comes up with a...
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A while back, I read somebody's blog entry proposing the idea of "AdFeeds" as an alternative to putting ads into existing newsfeeds. The idea is to generate feeds with nothing in them but ads on some focused topic, and use those to generate revenue to support free feeds. If people want to try that, more...
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This morning, I was humming a little music by Brazilian artist Djavan to my one year old son. I was reminded of his website, a great design example, and decided it was about time to make a blog where I could comment on website design and hilight such sites.

What do I love about his...
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When you click a link to a webpage, your browser doesn't automatically bookmark it, right? So why should clicking a link to an RSS feed automatically subscribe you to it? It shouldn't. It should show you the feed, which you could then subscribe to if you like it. How many times have you subscribed to...
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A few weeks ago, the US Supreme Court threw out the case of a man suing to have the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. But they left unanswered the central question of whether having those words in the pledge is a violation of the separation of church and state. Their ruling...
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Yesterday, I posted a proposal to the Atom wiki for a method of specifying details about a person (their name, URL, etc.) once, and referring to it from other places in a feed. The main point was to avoid duplicating data. The original declaration of a person was to have an attribute named "id" (eg....
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A question was asked on the AtomPub WG mailing list to the effect of "what is an entry?" With a conceptual model for what it is that we're trying to create a format for, we can decide what elements and attributes it needs. On a number of occasions, differences of opinion have had at their...
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I could have sworn I'd written about this before. The question has arisen on the AtomPub WG mailing list of whether the <link> element should be dumped and replaced by a number of different elements based on <link>'s @rel values. Ah, and so I have written about it before, on the wiki. Here's a relevant...
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Web guru Jeffrey Zeldman posted an entry in his blog today titled Architecture Digest vs. This Old House. It's content was interesting, but not directly related to the Mental Arc it sparked. That came from the title.

"This Old Website": a web-program (as in "television program", not "computer program") where a few designers get together...
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Referring to Steve Jobs' keynote mentioned in my last entry, The Register notes that "Safari will get Arse-Feed support (both RSS and Atom) in the next version, which the audience met with a stunned silence." The article then proceeds to be stunning silent on the question of what an "arse-feed" is. Was the article's author...
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