Author archive: Chris.
Turning Indiana Blue
StarFiles: Obama in Indiana - More IndyStar Galleries View this gallery at IndyStar: StarFiles: Obama in Indiana I woke up...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Recommended, photosStart spreading the news (photos)
Downtown rescue - More IndyStar Galleries View this gallery at IndyStar: Downtown rescue Obviously, photos and gallery management systems have...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Work, examplesAggregation: To Link or Summarize
So, as I mentioned in the last post, we’re working on a massive content aggregation project right now, with the...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, WorkNot hyperlocal ... Hyper-Me
So, the Wall Street Journal finally came out and declared LoudounExtra.com to be a “flop” … and I say, let...
Comments: (disabled) | Tags: (none)Finding somebody's Google Reader shared page
So, after attending the Interactive Media Conference last week (and picking up an Eppy for Indy.com, natch), I found myself...
Comments: 3 (view/add your own) | Tags: Recommended, examples, googleA clarification
My last post might have been a little too bombastic, so allow me to backtrack a bit and get to...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, WorkF--- video*
Newspapers everywhere are falling all over themselves to do web videos. It’s a goddamn waste of time and counter-productive to...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, WorkCome work with me
We have an opening right now in the Innovation & Development department of The Indianapolis Star for a web designer....
Comments: (disabled) | Tags: (none)Volume is the future
I switched from print design to online development a year and a half ago because I was frustrated with the...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, Work, metadataIntroducing IndyPaws
From the people what brung you IndyMoms.com, comes IndyPaws.com: Central Indiana’s one-stop shop for all your pets’ social networking needs.I...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, Work, railsendless_pageless: An unobtrusive pageless pagination in Rails plugin
NOTE: Whoa, that’s an old entry here folks. Give me a little bit to get it squared back away (like...
Comments: 2 (view/add your own) | Tags: Recommended, Work, examples, javascript, plugins, railsWidgetize your world
I had this idea with the first photo system I built, but today I managed to make it a reality...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Recommended, TheOffice, Work, examples, photosUnobtrusive Pageless Pagination in Rails
Inspired a lot by a keen dislike of pagination and more than a little by Unspace’s starting point, I started...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: AJAX, Recommended, Work, examples, javascript, mediatemple, pageless, plugins, railsThe trunk for the branches
It might have something to do with my current project at work, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, Work, metadataThe path of least resistance
When building ”Steve,” one of the ways I wanted to stretch the photo gallery concept I’ve been fiddling with and...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, Work, photosMetadata magic act
For my first trick, I’m going to make all that metadata I talked about yesterday disappear. And I have a...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Work, metadata, photos, plugins, railsSearch the metadata, not the photo
In newsrooms across the country, we’ve already figured out how to quickly search and manage copious amounts of photos. Photo...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, Work, metadata, photosMedia Temple, Rails and Mint
Still haven't touched IE ... but at least I have Mint working properly. After running into this problem here at...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Thissite, mediatemple, mint, railsA new home
Nobody should be able to find this yet, but dummied.org, the temporary/permanent home of the artist formerly known as dummied.net...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, MovableType, Thissite, railsGoing Indy
I'm sitting in a cheap hotel off Interstate 70 inside the 465 beltway surrounding Indianapolis, IN, with a stack of...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Recommended, Work, mediatemple, mint, move, railsDatabase Journalism in the darkroom
Database journalism, it's a big word (or two actually) and all the rage these days. Everybody's abuzz about storing stories...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, WorkZenphoto goes (relatively) big time
I reviewed a release of Zenphoto a while back, and I never really forgot about this little gem of a...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, Recommended, Work, XHTML, javascript, mysql, phpA tree grows in the forest
An odd thing about the U.S. Open site I've built (Lohud.com/open) is that I can't really get any sense of...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, CSS, Newspapers, Work, XHTMLSettling into a groove
While the golfers continue to hack their way through beautiful Winged Foot Golf Club (I'll upload photos from a practice...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, CSS, Newspapers, Sports, Work, XHTML, phpOpen-ing wider
After a near-constant blur of work over the past few months, the U.S. Open is here and our not-100-percent-ready-for-primetime website...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, MovableType, Newspapers, Recommended, Sports, Work, XHTML, rssThe Open's opening
I've been at the new job for nearly a month now and it's been pretty much everything I expected it...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, Newspapers, Recommended, Sports, TheOpen, Work, XHTMLFork in the road
I guess I'll need to update the bio ... and probably this whole website was well. After a month-plus worth...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, WorkThe importance of why
After spending some of last week interviewing for a management position in my current employer's internet department, I've been giving...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: ManagementYou already are a blog ...
And it's time to start acting like one. I've mentioned this offhandedly before, this idea that newspaper websites are already...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, RecommendedSimplifying print URLs
Let's say you produce a print product (be it newspaper, magazine, zine or newsletter) and a web product. Sometimes in...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Newspapers, Recommended, WorkSomething for the portfolio
After several months of Photoshopping, coding, copy editing and prodding, the website for my sister's upcoming wedding is now live....
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, MovableType, Work, XHTMLNewspapers and the search game
Jason Kottke's ad-hoc research on the search-engine ranking of New York Times articles doesn't really surprise me. Newspaper websites, as...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Recommended, Work, XHTML, googleWhy I stick with MT
As much as Movable Type sometimes aggravates me (usually just when I have to wade in hip-deep in a thicket...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, MovableType, Thissite, pluginsSet it and forget it
One of the fun things about setting up my sister's website is using her site as an excuse to hack...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, MovableType, Recommended, Work, XHTML, examples, phpZenphoto 1.0.1 (beta)
I have been steadily working on a wedding website for my sister's upcoming nuptials. It's mostly finished (but not ready...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Reviews, XHTML, mysql, phpOdds and ends
I'm knee deep in CSS, XHTML and one of my first forays into the dark, mysterious world of javascript and...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, CSS, Newspapers, Work, XHTML, javascriptParing Down
I've been in a bit of a motivation rut lately, despite spending an ungodly amount of time parked in front...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, productivity, rss12 dead
"Miracles happen in West Virginia and today we got one."— Charlotte Weaver, wife of Jack Weaver, one of the men...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: WestVirginiaA Round of Applause for The Times
In the time I've been working as a newspaper page designer, I have increasing grown resentful of the New York...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: NewspapersSticking my neck out
My current newspaper employer—who I have not explictly mentioned here but haven't made a real effort at hiding, either—has recently...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: NewspapersMaking Movable Type fluid
Movable Type, the publishing engine that (used to run) this site, comes complete with a fixed-width layout (much like the...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, MovableType, Recommended, ThissiteWhat I'm talking about
I wasn't planning on going back to the bad newspaper web design well quite so soon, but I stumbled upon...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: CSS, Work, examplesFull-frontal content
I've noticed that over the past few personal websites I've done, there's been one common theme (aside from black text...
Comments: 1 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, NewspapersGetting it right
So, I've talked a lot so far about what newspaper companies do wrong when they stumble toward the digital age....
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Recommended, WorkThe Technical Details
I'd like to think that most people who design websites professionally or even semi-professionally would already know about web standards...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Recommended, WorkThe Big Picture
As I've mentioned on my bio page, my night job is with a daily newspaper. I design newspaper pages for...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, Newspapers, Recommended, WorkFinishing the CSS Reboot
After a month-long dash to the finish line, this new site design and structure was finished just in time for...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, CSS, MovableType, Thissite, Work, XHTMLMT-Planner, the answer to my prayers?
After yesterday's entry, I spent a lot of time thinking of ways to stick with Movable Type and somehow pull...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, MovableType, Thissite, WorkThe limits of MT
The more I work with Movable Type, the more I am becoming frustrated with certain parts of it. It's a...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, MovableType, Recommended, WorkWork in progress
There are times that my interest in the web wanes a bit, namely when it's special section time at my...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: TheOffice, WorkMaking a guest appearance
In between hours of Hurricane Katrina watching, entertaining Pam's parents and a day trip to Hyde Park, N.Y., to tour...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: Blogs, MovableType, Thissite, WorkCommented simple template
Okay. I managed to sneak away from my wife's family long enough to comment up a file of the simplified...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: MovableType, Recommended, WorkAbout those templates
After a night's sleep, I thought I would give a few notes and pointers about the templates I created and...
Comments: 0 (view/add your own) | Tags: MovableType, WorkSimpler Movable Type templates
So, as Pam and I still slog away at laying the groundwork for our business idea, I've been signed up...
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