Archive for the 'Design and typography' Category

Microformats on Unitarian Universalist sites?

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Does anyone know of (or apply) microformats to Unitarian Universalist Web sites?  Might be good to be ahead of this before the release of Firefox 3, which will support them natively.

Request: Really clever orders of worship

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Has anyone seen (or better, produced) really clever orders of worship (service) — feel free to brag with some detail, and include a link if it exists somewhere on the Web.

Public domain chalice logo to use and share

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I’m struck how — to the best of my knowledge — there is no public domain flaming chalice logo for Unitarian Universalists (or anyone else) to use, share or modify, and certainly none that are size-independent vector graphics.

While I’m no graphic designer, and my work has rough parts, I am releasing into the public domain […]

Blog Day 5!

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Happy Blog Day! (Why today, if you squint, 3108 — today’s date — looks like blog) . Here’s the rules:

Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
Write a short description [...]

One way to get rid of pesky church members

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Here’s a video of a nifty video algorithm. Watch the video towards the end and you can see how easy it could be to remove figures from an image.

Transylvanian cloth

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Even after showing pictures of my Transylvanian Unitarian stole, I could have hardly expected the Apartment Therapy blog — that directory for so many lovely items — to identify Transylvanian hemp and linen cloth.

But they have.

Slow and steady changes to the blog theme

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

As constant readers may note, I wanted to move away from the current/past theme and used a version of Cutline — the Apple-y black and white one — but there were reader usability complaints so I moved back. Some of those complaints, while valid, were beyond the occasional tweek. Plus, I was seeing that theme […]

Anna Belle wrestles the GIMP and wins

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Anna Belle Leiserson (Faith and Web) took me very, very seriously when I suggested using The GIMP, a free and open-source image manipulation program as an alternative to Photoshop. Hard-card Photoshop users bloggers rehearse the limitations of the GIMP, but for most people I imagine it’s a reasonable, even robust alternative. But it’s most at […]

Best links for June 29

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Well, best for me, but I know some of you will like them too.

Michelle Murrain, writing from her Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology blog, points out how the United States Social Forum is running on free and open source software. Fabu. Drupal and Linux (Ubuntu and Debian)  love [...]

UCC.org: the step they took

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Later. If you care about UCC.org, or church websites in general, see Anna Belle Leiserson’s break-down of the facts at her Faith and Web.

Well, if you go to UCC.org now, you get your choice of high and low bandwidth.

What does the low bandwidth choice get you: the same list of links — with its own […]