Simian Design, by Tony Stephens

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    • Label Placement on Forms

      When creating a web form, one of the many choices you must make is how you are going to align your labels with your inputs. This is not a trivial decision, as this placement affects the readability/usability of your form, completion rates, speed of completion, and ultimately the satisfaction level of the users trying to get through your form.

      August 5 at 12:44 pm
    • A Scenic Night in Binbrook

      July 5, 2008 I had the pleasure of observing and photographing the stars at a local conservation area and dark sky site in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada. I imaged this scene with an unmodified Canon 40D, Sigma 17-70mm lens (17mm @f2.8) and standard camera tripod with no tracking. This is a stack of 15x20sec exposures @ ISO 800 on the Milkyway down to the tree line, and another single 20sec exposure on the rest of the landscape below to create a two frame composite. Stacking was done in Deep Sky Stacker and processing was done in PS with layers. I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town. Published: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day SkyNews Photo of the week #349

      August 5 at 12:35 pm
    • Concept Ships

      A great site with a collection of space ship designs, art and concepts. Great for the inner geek in you.

      August 5 at 12:26 pm

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

From A List Apart: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid.

“We web designers get excited about the littlest things. Our friends in the print world must get a kick out of watching us talk about finally being able to achieve layouts on the web that they’ve taken for granted for years. Let’s face it: it’s easier these days to embed a video on the web than it is to set type consistently or align elements to a universal grid.”

A nice writeup to an odd problem that does plague sites.