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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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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Ever since I built CaRP to import news onto one of my websites (I wanted a way to keep it fresh without having to do any work myself), I've been using RSS feeds more and more to shuttle data around my sites. I added code to output RSS feeds from my discussion forums. I set...
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Last weekend, I came across an entry on Dave Shea's mezzoblue discussing methods of choosing color schemes. A few links on the page took me to tools for generating color schemes, but none of them entirely satisfied me, so I had a little arc: why not create my own? So I did. Plug an RGB...
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You may be familiar with the css Zen Garden...or you may not. It's a very cool experiment in the use of CSS in web design. Many designers have contributed many good, bad and ugly designs to it.

The other day, I had a mental arc--why not create a similar site with a slightly different focus....
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