A Fool's Wisdom » Web Design http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Victoria’s Better Web Posse Disbanded? http://foolswisdom.com/victorias-better-web-posse-disbanded/ http://foolswisdom.com/victorias-better-web-posse-disbanded/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:53:54 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1437 Continue reading →]]>

Gels Saby Demoing at DemoCamp Victoria

While at An Event Apart SF, I went to look up something on the Victoria Better Web Posse’s site, and was saddened to find that it’s offline, “Address Not Found”. I’ve emailed Gels Saby hoping to find out the status, but haven’t heard back from her yet.

Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn on the Victoria Linux User Group (VLUG) wrote

As I understand it from someone who was a member of Web Posse, it has folded. OTOH, WEAV amalgamated with Big Blue & Cousins about a year and a half ago. Currently, a former WEAV member is running a Web Tools Special Interest Group monthly.

If this is the case, this is a big bummer. I found the Better Web Posse to have a refreshing design focus lacking from WEAV before it and Big Blue & Cousins still today. The Better Web Posse brought together many talented designers, developers and other workers of the web.

It seemed like Gels and a few other people did a lot of work to bring the posse together. Thank you!

]]> http://foolswisdom.com/victorias-better-web-posse-disbanded/feed/ 1 GoDaddy, Poor Web Experience on Purpose? http://foolswisdom.com/godaddy-poor-web-experience-on-purpose/ http://foolswisdom.com/godaddy-poor-web-experience-on-purpose/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:45:02 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1095 Continue reading →]]> Every time I’m on the GoDaddy site lately I think Robert Hoekman Jr. must have been talking about them when he wrote:

Today, I was involved in a conversation about a company that intentionally maintains a poor user experience on its commerce site in the interest of driving people to call customer support. Once they call, those crafty customer support people can start in with the up-sells. You may have called to get a problem solved, but their hope is that you’ll spend some cash on a few other things before you hang up.

]]> http://foolswisdom.com/godaddy-poor-web-experience-on-purpose/feed/ 8 Matt Thomas Put Under the Press, WordPress 2.5 That Is http://foolswisdom.com/matt-thomas-put-under-the-press-wordpress-25-that-is/ http://foolswisdom.com/matt-thomas-put-under-the-press-wordpress-25-that-is/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:25:48 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=814 Continue reading →]]> Matt Thomas, our brilliant web designer on team Automattic, has been very busy working on WordPress 2.5 .

Matt Thomas with dog bone He has long done much of the design work on WordPress.org, WordPress.com, and the sites for most of our other projects.

Over the couple of weeks, I’ve noticed a large number of image and CSS WordPress development tickets (with fixes!) from iammattthomas. I don’t remember him being so involved in a release previously, so I asked him:

I’d never so much as submitted a ticket before Feb. 18. But I knew it was going to take a lot of OCD-level tweaking to get the admin to match as perfectly as possible the Happy Cog designs, so I jumped in. The only downside of that is now I’m simultaneously redesigning WordPress.org while constantly writing patches for the admin UI. :)

MT has great taste, is fun to work with, and is a wonderful person. I’m so happy he’s on my team!

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