Archive for the category "Web Design"

The Rise and Fall of Fictional University

21 June 2011

Coming home from the city on Amtrak last week, nodding off on the 4:40 out of Penn Station, I had an idea for a Web project: a site for a non-existent school called Fictional University (or FU for short, as Emily pointed out later when I was telling her about this idea). I was imagining [...]

“strangely likable American oddities”

17 April 2006

Now live: the site I made for Scott Snyder. It’s not dissimilar to the site I made for Colson Whitehead, in the way that I set up Movable Type so that Scott can post news about readings, reviews, etc. I borrowed all the design elements from the design of Scott’s book, Voodoo Heart, which is [...]

Getting the Word Out

14 November 2005

Some of you reading this might know one or the other of these things already, but I’ve been continuing to act as a vector, if that’s the right word, for Movable Type: 1) I made a blog for Soft Skull, here. (It’s not perfect—figuring out how to perfectly integrate it with the rest of the [...]

Author Web Site

8 August 2005

Now live: the site I designed for Colson Whitehead. It uses Movable Type as a content management system, but is it a blog? Assuming the term means a vehicle for frequently updated, self-published content—or content for its own sake—I don’t think you could call it that, no. (Even using that definition, some balk at the [...]