Comments on: Pardon My History

By: mauricio quiroga

mauricio quiroga — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:47:38 +0000

heyy great work! I liked the gifs and the fuccia color, I enjoyed the websites

By: timzoom

timzoom — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:51:51 +0000

I love this color ,it’s make me happy.

By: Dan Benjamin

Dan Benjamin — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:08:21 +0000

I love this.

By: chovy

chovy — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:27:50 +0000

I thikn you need a greater distinction between the ALL CAPS orange and the ALL CAPS black.

I’m not sure which one is the subhead ( lower precedence than the other ).

By: Tokind

Tokind — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:58:35 +0000

Bold orange – which takes us back to the early days of your personal site design. I like it. It bespeaks excitement and confidence. I do like the design of your current site – appreciated it from day one. But I like this better. This make the previous iteration look somewhat effete. Please don’t forget to put the color back in your face (footer icon, mug).

By: Einar

Einar — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:51:03 +0000

Hi,

really like the new design!

Greetings,

– einar

By: Daniel Patterson

Daniel Patterson — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:24:40 +0000

So I guess its not just my family who has interesting stories. Thanks for sharing that with us.

By: Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:57:34 +0000

No image replacement on the h1?

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:27:36 +0000

I like the bold color choices and the simplicity of the layout.

By: yo yo yo

yo yo yo — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:56:35 +0000

Tip #1 when updating your personal blog that resides on a url bearing your name and photos etc …

Don’t make a habit of quoting items like “My father and brother inherited the Ukrainian rapist�s good looks, and I inherited his thirst.”

Google’s a M-Fer

By: L. Jeffrey Zeldman's Amazon Blog

L. Jeffrey Zeldman's Amazon Blog — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:30:57 +0000

[...] These Graphics: Disturbing Patterns The Ad Graveyard And much more. Enjoy! This is syndicated from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report. [...]

By: Steve K

Steve K — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:51:09 +0000

Great background and great hair as well!

By: hollyfairy

hollyfairy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:32:21 +0000

Oh my – I remember my very first Geocities site I made as a kid, being something similar in design to these! I miss the 90′s and all that eye-searing colour!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:02:03 +0000

Awesome! Great post for my first visit to the website. I’m reading this book from 2002 called “We’ve Got Blog” and decided to see if any of these blogs were still alive. This book has suddenly gotten very depressing – most of the blogs are on life support if they are still alive at all. These people were supposedly the founders and the future of web blogging, and they aren’t even doing it any more. Great to see your blog is still alive!
Blog On!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:37:31 +0000

This stuff really does bring back a lot of memories.

Back when the bulk of those pages was written, I was building animated gifs by hand (in… GifBuilder?) and just getting over imagemaps. For a while, my shop was setting up gifs (and transparent gifs) with checkerboard patterns of web-safe colors to create the illusion of intermediate colors. At that point, we used to set up a myriad of different cut-up template files from Photoshop for each site, and Save As over and over again… I remember setting up nested table inside nested table inside nested table. I loved that stuff. It appealed to my sensibilities as a problem-solver. I was thrilled when Fireworks 1.0 came out and we could generate slices all at once — but I never would have used the code, and it sucked that the layers weren’t compatible with Photoshop.

Oh, how far we’ve come. A lot of it is thanks to you, Jeffrey (seriously!), and a bunch of other pioneers….