Comments for Pilcrow Text & Design

Comment on What it’s like to have impaired vision by Mrs. Higgle Piggle

Mrs. Higgle Piggle — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:47:07 +0000

You’re forgiven.

Comment on Details matter by Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:38:05 +0000

I know this comment is ridiculously out of date, but bear with me!

I love en dashes. It brings me great joy to see articles that actually use en dashes correctly, whether for a page range in a reference section or, even more beautifully, for punctuating a compound modifier. I know that few people but editors actually notice, but to me a properly applied en dash says, “I care.”

Comment on How NOT to design a website by Textwrapper

Textwrapper — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:46:56 +0000

Music on a site. Grrrrr!

Comment on Wordpress.com versus Blogger by Julie Hathaway

Julie Hathaway — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:32:30 +0000

That’s true of so many things. It seems so much easier just to stick with what you know. I don’t think the “good old days” were really that much better — but they seem better because it’s what we learned first.

Comment on Two easy online photo editors by Julie Hathaway

Julie Hathaway — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:27:06 +0000

Sad but true, Carson. I also weep at the thought of all the traffic those blogs aren’t getting.

Comment on How NOT to design a website by Julie Hathaway

Julie Hathaway — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:21:52 +0000

Oh yeah! I especially love it when music starts playing and there’s no way to turn it off.

Comment on Wordpress.com versus Blogger by Textwrapper

Textwrapper — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:03:06 +0000

What I love about Blogger and Wordpress, is the elegant CSS templates which are available.
Instant good design.

Here in Humboldt County, the trend seems to be running towards Wordpress with the newer blogs, perhaps for the reasons mentioned in this post.

Older, recalcitrant bloggers are sticking with Blogger, but it’s like Freehand versus Illustrator: designers always favored the one they learned first.

Comment on Two easy online photo editors by Carson Park Ranger

Carson Park Ranger — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:50:48 +0000

I wish that our local bloggers would use webresizer. I weep at the thought of all of that wasted bandwidth.

I may be forced to link to this post.

Comment on How NOT to design a website by Textwrapper

Textwrapper — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:45:35 +0000

Don’t we all love to have lots of confusing, bright, flashing objects and animation get between us and the information we’re looking for?

Great links, thanks.

Comment on Two easy online photo editors by Julie Hathaway

Julie Hathaway — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:16:36 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Ralpin. I’m always glad to learn of new resources. I hadn’t seen FotoFlexer before. It does look powerful, though I still think Picnik is the cutest.