Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About web-design

Working with developers and designers

June 30, 2008 – 9:53 pm

I wrote a post for IdeaLab earlier today.  It’s a short update on ReportingOn development, framed as a weighing of the pros and cons of a few different development platforms.
It occurred to me near the end of it that I should treat this project as if the developer was someone other than myself.  (Yes, at [...]

Redesign

November 16, 2007 – 12:01 am

I’ve been quietly working up a redesign for this blog at random moments a few minutes at a time. I was due to make a change — the last iteration lasted more than eight months.
You’ll find the usual bells and whistles and links down low, past a few recent posts.
Differences and details:

Bluer. Cleaner. Typographical. [...]

Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

September 17, 2007 – 7:37 am

Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?
If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or [...]

A few basics of newspaper.com design

September 7, 2007 – 7:27 am

I’m about 1/5th of the way through my latest run of Preliminary Data Gathering (cue ominous music as if the villain just walked into the bar) for my thesis, which involves staring at newspaper.coms just long enough to figure out where they hide the blogs.
As I work my way down an alphabetical list of the [...]

I’m in ur FTP clientz putting ur clothez back on

April 5, 2007 – 9:30 pm

It’s not midnight here yet, or I’d be fast asleep (partying UCSC student neighbors have no effect on me when the head hits the pillow), but it’s late enough to flick the stylesheet back on.
Thanks to everyone who got naked with me.
And everyone who made amusing remarks about it on Twitter.
And to the guy who [...]