Tag archive: Newspapers.

Posted by Chris on August 15, 2008 at 08:01 AM

Start spreading the news (photos)

Downtown rescue - More IndyStar Galleries View this gallery at IndyStar: Downtown rescue Obviously, photos and gallery management systems have...

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Posted by Chris on May 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM

A clarification

My last post might have been a little too bombastic, so allow me to backtrack a bit and get to...

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Posted by Chris on May 09, 2008 at 01:58 PM

F--- video*

Newspapers everywhere are falling all over themselves to do web videos. It’s a goddamn waste of time and counter-productive to...

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Posted by Chris on July 27, 2007 at 10:54 PM

Volume is the future

I switched from print design to online development a year and a half ago because I was frustrated with the...

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Posted by Chris on April 30, 2007 at 06:52 AM

Introducing 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...

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Posted by Chris on March 23, 2007 at 06:07 AM

Widgetize your world

I had this idea with the first photo system I built, but today I managed to make it a reality...

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Posted by Chris on March 12, 2007 at 10:00 PM

The 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...

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Posted by Chris on March 01, 2007 at 11:02 PM

The 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...

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Posted by Chris on February 27, 2007 at 12:18 PM

Search 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...

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Posted by Chris on September 22, 2006 at 10:56 PM

Database 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...

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Posted by Chris on June 17, 2006 at 07:56 PM

A 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...

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Posted by Chris on June 16, 2006 at 07:53 PM

Settling into a groove

While the golfers continue to hack their way through beautiful Winged Foot Golf Club (I'll upload photos from a practice...

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Posted by Chris on June 15, 2006 at 02:10 PM

Open-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...

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Posted by Chris on May 12, 2006 at 10:43 AM

The 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...

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Posted by Chris on April 07, 2006 at 03:27 PM

Fork in the road

I guess I'll need to update the bio ... and probably this whole website was well. After a month-plus worth...

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Posted by Chris on March 02, 2006 at 07:18 PM

You 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...

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Posted by Chris on February 17, 2006 at 05:45 PM

Simplifying print URLs

Let's say you produce a print product (be it newspaper, magazine, zine or newsletter) and a web product. Sometimes in...

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Posted by Chris on January 30, 2006 at 08:39 PM

Newspapers 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...

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Posted by Chris on January 13, 2006 at 05:02 PM

Odds and ends

I'm knee deep in CSS, XHTML and one of my first forays into the dark, mysterious world of javascript and...

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Posted by Chris on December 30, 2005 at 03:19 PM

A 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...

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Posted by Chris on December 16, 2005 at 09:17 PM

Sticking 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...

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Posted by Chris on November 15, 2005 at 03:38 PM

Full-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...

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Posted by Chris on November 11, 2005 at 04:09 PM

Getting it right

So, I've talked a lot so far about what newspaper companies do wrong when they stumble toward the digital age....

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Posted by Chris on November 07, 2005 at 04:08 PM

The Technical Details

I'd like to think that most people who design websites professionally or even semi-professionally would already know about web standards...

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Posted by Chris on November 02, 2005 at 01:36 AM

The Big Picture

As I've mentioned on my bio page, my night job is with a daily newspaper. I design newspaper pages for...

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